Pubdate: Thu, 13 Dec 2012
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2012 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Jack Farrar
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n632/a05.html
Page: 22A

CU PRESIDENT WORRIES ABOUT POT LEGALIZATION

Re: "University of Colorado president sees $1 billion risk in 
legalized pot," Dec. 9 news story.

University of Colorado president Bruce Benson's hyperbolic 
pronouncements about the legalization of marijuana affecting federal 
aid to CU merely serve to stir up uninformed and paranoid rhetoric, 
rather than contribute to a rational debate.

Mr. Benson should consider joining the rest of us in the 21st 
century. Marijuana use is a reality. Why, I would wager that even 
some of your best friends at Republican cocktail parties occasionally 
put down their glasses of top-shelf scotch and sneak out to the 
balcony or patio to fire one up. And they don't, by and large, become 
drug addicts or felons. They are good people just getting high a 
little differently than you might.

As president of a college annually ranked high among those where 
drunkenness, couch arson and debachurey are widely practiced, isn't 
it a touch hypocritical and naively nostalgic for Benson to pick on marijuana?

Jack Farrar, Denver
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