[Kzyxtalk] End of Prohibition

[Dr Richard Louis Miller]

Dear Editor:

I am uncertain if this the following is a letter to the editor or a brief
article but I respectfully submit it for publication.



*Cannabis prohibition in the United States is ending! *

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. 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.

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.

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.

With the end of prohibition, the world, as we know it,  will  change.

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.

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.  The amount of
money the end of prohibition will bring, in sales, taxes and tourism,  is
beyond ones wildest imagination.

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 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.

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.

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.

Respectfully,

Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Coastal Resident



Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology
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