Pubdate: Wed, 09 Apr 2014
Source: University Daily Kansan, The (Lawrence, KS Edu)
Copyright: 2014 Beth Vannatta
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Author: Beth Vannatta

LEGALIZE POT

Legalize pot. Tax it, get it out in the open and get some control over
it. Stop using it as a means to incarcerate poor, often minority,
young in order to fill the pockets of the privately owned penal
system. Pot doesn't kill, alcohol does, through intoxicated, often
enraged, drivers on our highways. Pot doesn't kill, nicotine does,
through cancer and heart patients who swell our hospitals and
overwhelm our health system. Pot does tend to make the user laid back
and somewhat lazy, but I'll take that any day over an erratic drunk or
a smoke snorting nicotine addict. Legalize pot.

- - Beth Vannatta, Halstead.
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MAP posted-by: Jo-D