[Kzyxtalk] End of Prohibition

[Norman de Vall]

Richard,
	Good Morning
Are you a YES vote on Measure AF?
Norman


> On Sep 14, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Dr Richard Louis Miller <drrichardlmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Editor:
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> I am uncertain if this the following is a letter to the editor or a brief article but I respectfully submit it for publication.
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> Cannabis prohibition in the United States is ending! 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> With the end of prohibition, the world, as we know it,  will  change.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Respectfully,
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> Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
> Clinical Psychologist
> Coastal Resident
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> Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
> Clinical Psychology
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