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  2. Created By
    Paul Kostel
    santa rosa, CA
About this Petition Petition Letter

For seventy years now, marijuana consumption of any kind has been prohibitted for the entire nation, despite numurous studies proving its use harmless. This petition is being sent to the House, the Senate, and the President himself, pushes to end the governments harmful and wasteful opposition of marijuana, to make way for a more reasonable approach to the substance.

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An end to the Second Prohibition

Dear Mister or Miss elected official of these United States

I send you this letter on behalf of the growing number of people angry with the state of prohibition as it is today. A little over 70 years ago, in 1933, the prohibition of alcohol ended. It was a celebrated time, not just because people were able to drink legally, but also because the people were able to put an end to the governments right-infringing policy of banning alcohol consumption. At the time, and even still, people referred to it as the end of prohibition in itself.
But as you probably know, this is not true. Around the same time the prohibition of alcohol ended, marijuana prohibition began. Now, over 70 years later, there are numerous studies, from many different countries, including the U.S., showing that marijuana is far less harmful then alcohol, with alcohol-related deaths through the roof compared to the virtually-zero marijuana related deaths.
Still, since nation wide prohibition of marijuana began, countless people have been arrested and put in jail, given criminal records, there lives forever impacted, just because they consumed marijuana in one way or another.
If the prohibition continues, as it is now, people will continue to be locked up against there will, put on probation, or forced to pay large fines for this act that has been proven, in multiple ways, harmless by itself.
I send you this letter in hopes to have your support in ending to the hurtful and wasteful practices our government continues to use combating the use marijuana, and to help set in place regulations to have legal use, distribution, and possible taxation of marijuana, for use by any citizen of these free but United States.

[Your name]

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