Legalize marijuana already!

(click to enlarge) My letter in response to Attorney General Sessions ending legal shelter for state-sanctioned marijuana was published in today's Los Angeles Times:

Bring it on. Let's force the issue.

If the feds begin wholesale arrests and imprisonment of pot dealers and users, it will only enrage everyone who supports legalization.

The cowards in Congress will either have to finally legalize marijuana or face the wrath of the voters.

Legalize pot already

The Los Angeles Times ran an article headlined "States rush to protect cannabis". I sent this note in response (not published):

Perhaps this will finally prompt the cowards in Congress to take marijuana off the list of proscribed drugs and out of the hands of Attorney General Jeff Sessions!

Drug War ('07)

I sent this letter to the LATimes Sept. 2007 (not published):

The only reason the Taliban are able to make so much money from poppies is that heroin is illegal.

Why not treat all illegal drugs as we do alcohol: legalize, regulate and tax them.

What a change that will make to Al Queda, Mexican drug lords, drug-related gang violence in our own streets, prison over-crowding, and so much else. Not to mention the money we'll save by giving up the pointless Drug War.

Legalize Marijuana ('05)

I sent this letter to the LATimes in June 2005 (not published):

I share the letter writers' anger over the criminalizing of medical marijuana.

But let's remember who's at fault here. The Supreme Court only said the law is constitutional. It's Congress who came up with the law in the first place.

We should aim our anger where it can do some good: at the craven politicians who are unwilling to take any campaign heat about being "soft on drugs".