What Is the Definition ...

RECEIVED Thu., June 9, 2005

Dear Editor,
    We should all be pleased that the Supreme Court set back the push for legal medicinal marijuana, as such laws are nothing more than another angle for a certain type of doctor/lawyer to corner the market on a "new" product. That said, we should now focus on an across-the-board, FDA-, Department of Agriculture-protected legalization of marijuana as a common commodity. More important, the prosecution and defamation of users of hemp/marijuana should be regarded as a crime against humanity, because that is exactly the assault we now endure. We must take a look at America's stockpile of nuclear power, alcohol, petroleum products, etc., and ask ourselves, exactly, what is our definition of poison? Legality? Humanity? Crime?
Peace out,
Todd Alan Smith
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