Pubdate: Mon, 02 Jan 2006
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2006 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Kirk Muse

IN DEFENSE OF LEGALIZING MARIJUANA IN COLO.

It seems to me that the proposed Colorado marijuana initiative is 
about the right to choose: the right of adult citizens to choose for 
themselves what goes into their own bodies, in the privacy of their 
own homes, without the threat of the state government arresting them 
for doing so. If you are going to keep marijuana as a criminalized 
substance because of its potential danger, then you should expect a 
long list of potentially unhealthy foods also to be criminalized. For 
our own good, of course. Perhaps our government should criminalize 
many potentially dangerous activities such as skiing, skating and 
snowboarding - for our own good, of course.

Kirk Muse, Mesa, Ariz.
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