[420 Girl]

Cannabis activist Dan Linn hit the bull's-eye ["Legalize cannabis so it can be taxed and regulated," Daily Gazette, Jan. 14] calling to re-legalize cannabis; but one important reason doesn't get mentioned.

Re-legalizing the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant would lower deadly, hard-drug addiction rates by eliminating lies, half-truths and propaganda in drug awareness education.

How many citizens try cannabis and realize it's not nearly as harmful as taught in Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) type government environments? Then they think other substances must not be so bad either, only to become addicted to deadly drugs.

The old lessons make cannabis out to be among the worst substances in the world, even though it's never killed a single person. The federal government even classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance along with h****n, while m**h and c*****e are only Schedule II substances.

For the health and welfare of America's children and adults, that message absolutely must change. When citizens may purchase cannabis from regulated sources, they will not come into contact with people who often also sell hard drugs, which will lower hard drug addiction rates. Further, cannabis even has a history of being used to help people escape hard-drug addictions.

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