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Misleading ads
To the Editor,
Regarding the JCPTFACMI "mythbusters" anti-marijuana ads: I feel compelled to ask the group (and your readers ...) one question: Can you name one government, nation or civilization that has succeeded in stamping out a black market?
It's a rhetorical question ... it hasn't been done. Societies have crushed things like cannibalism by making them taboo, but history shows that driving substances into the black market (by making them illegal) creates a lucrative market for anyone who cares more for money than laws. Can't folks yet see the folly of America's country's over 30-year-old, trillion dollar "War On Drugs"?
America pays to house a third of our nation's prison population for pot crimes yet the JCPTFACMI ads state 17 million American reported "past-month use." Really? How's that working for you?
The majority of troubles described by the JCPTFACMI ads are a result of the current quasi-legal mess that legislators have created trying to please the public, which clearly only wants less problems from pot (and its users) and the JCPTFACMI side which will only grow its ranks and profit from harsher laws that will never come close to stopping the "evil weed" from being grown and consumed.
JCPTFACMI: Give it up ... it can't be done! Try focusing on really evil people doing really evil things.
Marc Burger
Plush, OR