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Richard Sexstone

On legalizing marijuana, message from the Legislature is loud and clear

We have just witnessed the display of the dictionary definition of paranoia: a classic example of how fear can disrupt clear and rational thinking.

Our Vermont legislature has voted that cannabis users are criminals, somehow not worthy of citizenship and to be disenfranchised from society. The message has been heard - loud and clear.

The pro-cannabis people say that sunshine is the best disinfectant: Bring marijuana out in the open, and treat it like alcohol.

The anti-cannabis people push back, blinded by their paranoid reefer-madness notions of marijuana. Three-quarters of our legislature is hung up with fear-ridden, irrational concepts - such as marijuana being a gateway to heroin - and some legislators even take the laughable position that marijuana is as dangerous as heroin.

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