<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6">Dear Editor:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="6"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">I am uncertain if this the following is a letter to the editor or a brief article but I respectfully submit it for publication.</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><b>Cannabis prohibition in the United States is ending! </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="6" style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif">Although the American Medical Association strongly opposed the bill, cannabis was made illegal in the United Stated in 1937 with the passing of the Harrison Act. </font><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">The purpose of the Harrison act was to create a way to arrest mexicans and blacks who were seen, by the famously bigoted chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger, as users of "marijuana" for the purpose of seducing white women. There was no science behind making the plant illegal, only extreme racial hatred.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Alcohol prohibition in our country last 14 years. Cannabis prohibition has lasted 80 years. Alcohol prohibition spawned American criminal gangs such as the mafia who influenced cities. Cannabis prohibition has spawned international criminal cartels who influence governments.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Alcohol has never made its way into hospitals as a medicine. Marin General Hospital in uber rich Marin County is presently considering using cannabis as a medicinal.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">With the end of prohibition, the world, as we know it, will change.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large">Fort Bragg/Mendocino can be on the forefront of change or we can lag behind. Fort Bragg/Mendoocino has an opportunity to become the Burgundy or Napa valley of cannabis. If we choose to lead the way the finances of our city, and County, can grow monumentally and can be used for health, education and welfare. We can create a model hospital, a model school system and we can house the homeless. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Fortune magazine reports that the cannabis industry will gross over 20 billion in sales in 2020 with a 30% annual growth rate. California presently accounts for 47% of the national legal market. </font><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large"> The amount of money the end of prohibition will bring, in sales, taxes and tourism, is beyond ones wildest imagination.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="6"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">I am writing to encourage our community to take bold steps in ensuring that Fort Bragg/Mendocino takes its rightful place on the leading edge of the cannabis tourism industry that is rapidly being established. It is just a matter of time before we see the advent of cannabis tours, just as we now have wine tours. As the northcoast now has winesong fundraisers there will be cannabasong </font></font><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">fundraisers. Liquor is presently sold in bars and soon there will be cannabis bars. Sound odd? Read about what it was like in our country as prohibition ended. We went from no legal bars to a wild profusion of legal bars seemingly overnight.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Let us not be led, or guided, by those who act out of fear and misguided information. Science has definitively informed us that cannabis is far less harmful than alcohol and is light years safer than nicotine cigarettes. Furthermore, cannabis appears to have many medicinal uses of significance.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Dear neighbors, please give your due consideration to seizing this historical moment and thereby providing our children, grand children, all our descendants, with opportunities for untold heights of enrichment.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Respectfully,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Clinical Psychologist</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6">Coastal Resident</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small">Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.</span><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">Clinical Psychology</font></span></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">MindBodyHealthPolitics.org</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif">Psychepedia.org </font></div></div><br><br><br><font color="#000066"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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