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May 04, 2006
Letter: 'Madsterdam'
Posted by Gary Storck
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Had this letter published today in the Isthmus. Having visited "Oaksterdam" click here since I wrote the letter but before it was published, I am even more convinced, if that is possible, for the need for regulated sales for adult cannabis consumers and dispensaries for medical users in Wisconsin. Marijuana prohibition is hurting us badly across the board. On the eve of Global Marijuana Marches in Madison and 200 other cities worldwide this weekend, it's time to end cannabis prohibition. It's un-American.
Source: Isthmus
Pubdate: 5 May 2006
Author: Gary Storck
'MADSTERDAM'Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's story about Madison in 2031 failed to consider whether we would still have marijuana prohibition (4/7/06). In 2031, 54 years after Madison voted to legalize medical marijuana and private possession for personal use, will there be cannabis coffeeshops like in Holland? Will patients have safe access to their medicine from dispensaries? Will cannabis bloom on State Street? Or will we still be mired in a lost war that currently arrests over 750,000 Americans per year?
Madison with regulated pot sales and cannabis coffeeshops -- let's call it Madsterdam -- would be safer, less violent and less angry. While Cieslewicz envisions a "new biological agent" being used to make future gatherings at Halloween and on Mifflin St. happier and less prone to violence, such an agent already exists with cannabis. Roll 'em up!
Gary Storck
Madison NORML
www.madisonnorml.org
Posted by Gary at May 4, 2006 02:54 PM
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