Letter: Prohibition?
Denis Goddard
January 30, 2008
Concord Monitor
Re "Bills would lessen penalties for marijuana" (Monitor Local & State page, Jan. 23):
In your story on HB 1623, relative to reducing penalties for possession of small quantities of marijuana, you state that: "Peter Morency, president of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police, described the issue in terms of crime, pointing to the high levels of crime that he said were drug-and-alcohol related."
In the very same testimony, Mr. Morency was asked if he would re-institute alcohol prohibition. In reply, he said he "certainly would consider it."
Don't take my word for it; see the video yourself at nhliberty.org/2007/hb1623. It's 2 minutes 37 seconds in.
Denis Goddard, director of research, New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, Concord | 
