LEGALIZE MARIJUANA, NOW!

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS-Hello America, and how's the world treating you?

A recent poll found that 56% of all Americans want marijuana legalized. I agree.

It is a fact that 67 percent of all illegal drugs being brought into this country is marijuana. If just marijuana was legalized it would stop the majority of drug traffic into the U.S.A.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger even expressed his idea of legalizing marijuana in California not to long ago. It appears there are many in the nation that agree with his marijuana legalization idea.

At the present time there are approximately over 600,000 illegal aliens in our prisons here in the United States, the majority on drug and murder charges.

I would suggest that if the Federal government did legalize marijuana it would produce a number of benefits for the country.A small list would include but not limited to some of the following. Legalizing marijuana would:

1.Immediately take all incentives away from the drug cartels to smuggle the drug into the United States and that in turn would drastically diminish the smuggling operations on our borders.

2. The sale of marijuana would be strictly regulated by our government and the cost of the drug would be reduced.

3. The legal sale of the marijuana would show an immediate benefit to the Federal government and the states by bringing in tens of millions of dollars in taxes, if not billions.

4. The legalization of the drug would have an immediate impact on all of the drug related murders that are currently being waged on our borders and in our states. I would predict that the drug crimes and murders would show a significant drop.

Imagine, sixty-seven percent of all illegal drugs being brought into this country is marijuana. Wouldn't it be nice if we could see a sixty-seven percent drop in drug traffic and drug related murders? It's possible folks.

5. The marijuana legalization would also reduce the number of illegal aliens and U.S. citizens being sent to our prisons which in turn would result in enormous savings to our corrections system in every state.

Currently it costs tens of thousands of dollars a year to house only one of these criminals and by the sole act of legalizing marijuana we could save billions of dollars a year avoiding incarceration of marijuana traffickers.

The above is just some of the reasons I think the Federal government should legalize marijuana. It's a win, win situation. There will be a new tax windfall of millions or even billions of dollars for our states and Federal treasuries. It will reduce the number of criminal drug dealers and murders in our prisons. The legalization will also cut down on the gang violence in our cities across the country and it will clearly slash the smuggling opportunities for the criminal element. I would think all the politicians from all parties would get on board, especially when they can see all of the dollars signs blinking before their eyes.
- And, that's my opinion.

Bradley Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com