CANNABIS PROHIBITION IS GREATER THREAT THAN LEGALIZATION

Diane Bolton's effort ("Letter: Legal marijuana means plenty more
problems," Oct. 6) to portray cannabis (marijuana) as a detriment to
children misses reality. Cannabis prohibition, not cannabis the plant,
is the monster. Insisting cannabis is addictive will never make it
more addictive than coffee.

If Bolton honestly wishes to save the children, re-legalize the
God-given plant cannabis. Magnify the example, examine how cannabis
prohibition, extermination and persecution effects children in Mexico.
The same way the original prohibition with alcohol affected children
is the way the sequel effects children, except the sequel is on a
world scale.

It's clearly time to protect our children and stop feeding the
monster. Those who support cannabis prohibition are directly and
indirectly responsible for the destruction it causes to children.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.