Pubdate: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 Source: Brownsville Herald, The (TX) Copyright: 2010 The Brownsville Herald Contact: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/contact/ Website: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1402 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n924/a10.html Author: Stan White END THE VIOLENCE: END PROHIBITION Editor: Shootouts continue in Tamaulipas, and they are going to continue till North America re-legalizes the relatively safe, God-given plant cannabis (marijuana). Government statistics indicate 60 percent to 70 percent of cartel profits come from cannabis. Legalizing the plant will also reduce hard drug addiction rates. Murder rates declined for 10 years after ending the original prohibition with alcohol, and there's reason to believe ending the sequel will have the same results. Ending cannabis prohibition and extermination is one of the most important issues of our time, unless we ask the devil if we should continue caging humans for using what God says is good on the first page of the Bible (see Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30). Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake