U.S. Seeks to Close Cannabis Clubs
Re “U.S. Launches Drive to Close Marijuana Clubs,” Jan. 10, and the news that Gov. Pete Wilson’s budget would boost spending for prisons: Do I smell a correlation here? Usual special interests at work? Drive pot back underground and more kids will get caught and fill more cells in more jails--prisons being the largest growth industry in the country.
The U.S. has the largest prison population per capita of civilized nations. Ipso facto we can justifiably surmise that after 10 to 20 years of incarceration, we will release into our tender midst the largest cadre of hardened criminals in the world.
Our doctors have approved the smoking of marijuana as a panacea for cancer patients et al. The people of California have voted to legalize the growth of pot for medicinal purposes for one’s own use. Let the federal government respect the “will of the people”!
GEORGE MARGO
Malibu
* I think it is time we California voters reminded the president that the medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215, got more votes than he did.
I never thought I’d be voting Libertarian, but I am now!
The Republicans never had me, and the Democrats lost me.
DAVID G. PORTER
Anaheim
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