CLARIFY LAWS BY MAKING MARIJUANA LEGAL

Regarding Tuesday's editorial, "Clarify laws on pot as medicine": I
wish our governance would indeed clarify the rules on pot. Not
medicinal, but cannabis in general.

This fool's errand of cannabis prohibition has endured for seven
decades, and what do we have to show for our trillion-dollar
investment? Higher quality cannabis is more available to all, while
respect for law is diminished. Has the general welfare of Americans
been promoted? Are we better off now than before the pogrom ensued? No, and No.

Change will come from the streets, not from the palaces. I encourage
readers to sign and support all of the cannabis legalization
petitions that are coming for the 2012 elections.

- - Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch