Apr 27, 2014 1 min read

While its gratifying to see that candidates for the 32nd state Senate District, Rep. Deberah Kula and Mr. Harry Fike, share a compassion for ailing Pennsylvanians who can benefit from medical cannabis, it is disappointing that they do not understand the crime of subsidizing black market economics that they impose on Pennsylvania by their support of marijuana prohibition.

As long as marijuana is illegal, it generates countless millions of dollars a year that go directly into the pockets of gangsters, tax-free. The actual gateway to drug use and abuse is the prohibition policy. The profits from illegal markets give gangsters and abusers a vested economic interest in selling more drugs to premature youth. Under legalization, cannabis would be sold under regulated, licensed and taxed, responsible, adult supervision effectively slamming shut the gateway of access that young people have today.

The choice that Pennsylvania legislators have is the status quo of gangsters and abusers holding open the gateway of access versus legalization, putting responsible adult supervision in between kids and most pot sales.

Pat Rogers

Norristown,Pa.