Washington Post, 03 Dec 2012 – THE RECKLESS EXPERIMENT OF COMMERCIALIZING POT Regarding the Nov. 26 editorial “What should the feds do about pot?”: The new laws of Colorado and Washington state do not simply decriminalize marijuana; they commercialize its production and sale, thus creating a major commercialized drug industry. These laws are explicitly modeled on the tobacco and alcohol industries – industries that make the bulk of their profits from substance abusers. Marijuana has 60 percent more cancer-causing agents than tobacco and stays in the body and brain 20 times longer than alcohol. There are overwhelming public health reasons to oppose legalization of marijuana.
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