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Letter: Get a better argument to keep pot illegal

Douglas Page 4:45 p.m. MST April 5, 2016

Here we go again with another diatribe by Sheila Polk and friends against the legalization of marijuana ("Law enforcement: Our problems with Arizona's pot initiative").

Sheila Polk is making sure that the USA keeps its lead for having the highest incarceration rate in the world by helping to continue the draconian laws that lead to arresting people for marijuana use even though more people died from prescription drugs each year than all illegal drugs combined. Also, booze and tobacco kill more people each year than “illegal drugs,” and they are more harmful.

Sheila Polk, though, believes that it’s much better to jail these dangerous pot smokers year after year than it is to collect tax revenue from a “drug” that is not as harmful as legal drugs and including those given to citizens by the medical profession.

Based on their logic, Polk and others of her kind should immediately act to outlaw all prescription drugs, booze, and tobacco products. They should read the following New York Times articles – “Rules for the Marijuana Market” 8/5/14,” In the US, Punishment Comes Before the Crimes 4/30/14, “Let States Decide on Marijuana” 5/27/14.

“What Science Say About Marijuana “ 7/31/14, “The Federal Marijuana Ban is Rooted in Myth and Xenophobia” 7/30/14, “The Injustice of Marijuana Arrests” 7/29/14, “Repeal Prohibition Again” 7/27/14, and “The Great Colorado Weed Experiment” 8/3/14.

Continuing the nearly 50-year War on Drugs has been and continues to be an insane policy.

— Douglas Page, Prescott