Letter: Legalizing Marijuana Would Reduce Suicides And Violent Crimes
Paila McFarland
March 26, 2009
The News-Journal (Mansfield, OH)
Do you really want to rebuild our country by thinking green? You say it would save money and keep the earth clean. I just need to know how green? Are you talking about the earth in between . . . (dirt, water, paper)?
I don’t mean to be an instigator but I might as well get this off my chest now instead of later. Sometimes it takes one person to speak up and do us all the favor. We have that right — right?
The first step to rebuilding this country is to stop thinking with so much irony. Produce plus recycle equals new growth. It’s a natural plant they try to extinguish, but can’t. I guess they’d rather deal with alcohol-related homicides. I can almost guarantee if marijuana became legal there would be a decrease in the number of suicides, violent crimes and rough times.
Alcohol has been legal for decades and has done everything except make the world a safer place. Long as you can collect taxes everything is OK. Well, where there’s a will there’s a way.
Long as there is a seed there will be a need for the non-manmade herb you call weed. Yet, alcohol is legal? You gotta be kidding me.
I guess it’s supernatural to sell water from a never-ending fountain, yet dry well. The economy isn’t falling, it has failed. |