Pubdate: Thu, 15 Apr 2010
Source: Chicago Reader (IL)
Copyright: 2010 Chicago Reader
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n258/a07.html
Author: Margarita Korol

THE POT PROBLEM

Re: "Medical Marijuana Is Already Legal in Illinois: And it has been for
three decades. But it'll take the passage of another law to make it
available to patients," by Claire Thompson, April 8

In response to Dan Linn's comment regarding California bozos using
medical marijuana for "headaches and hangnails," the only bozos are
the politicians more loyal to saving their own asses and the
paternalistic system they're seated in than to the individuals they're
supposed to represent. And these individuals want to get lifted. Sick
or not, otherwise law-abiding Americans should have that freedom
without being classified as a criminal. John Locke's On Liberty
outlines the harm principle stating that freedoms must not be
restricted if they are not harming another. The patriotic thing to do
is to go the way of sane policymaking like that of Prague and
decriminalize.

Margarita Korol

Hyde Park
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