THE WAR ON DRUGS WILL ONLY BE SOLVED IF WE LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

The public lands' big cash crop). Sadly, and hypocritically, the
agencies that are supposed to be solving the drug problem look the
other way when push comes to shove. They make token arrests while
leaving the cartels intact to rake in millions of dollars and
assemble arsenals of weapons.

If state and federal policy-makers had more balls, they would
legalize pot and tax it, solving their states' debt problems and
keeping innocent people out of prison. Once pot was legal, Mexican
cartels would have no reason to grow marijuana on public lands, and
their weapons, trash and poaching would disappear.

Policy-makers need to focus on more dangerous drugs, such as meth,
which is tearing communities apart. The danger of marijuana is not
the plant itself, but the criminal element it draws because we've
made it illegal.

Grant Wiegert

Benson, Arizona