Pubdate: Sun, 03 Apr 2016
Source: Detroit Free Press (MI)
Copyright: 2016 Detroit Free Press
Contact: http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/opinion04/50926009
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125
Author: Stan White

MARIJUANA IS SAFER THAN ALCOHOL OR COFFEE

As a Colorado voter who helped end cannabis prohibition in my state, 
I've observed the current laws work as planned, protecting 
responsible adults who choose to use the extremely popular, God-given 
plant. Every subsequent poll indicates Colorado voters continue to 
support it, and there's every reason to believe Michigan voters will 
end the discrimination and continue supporting it in the future.

By any measure cannabis is safer than alcohol, and it's less 
addictive than coffee. In over 5,000 years of documented use, it has 
not killed one person, while cigarettes kill over 1,000 Americans 
daily. That's safety on a Biblical scale.

A sane or moral argument to continue caging or punishing responsible 
adults who use cannabis doesn't exist.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.
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