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On Wednesday the Herald editorial board wrote:

“Currently venues are forced to choose between underagers — i.e. a no-alcohol event — or else compete with the bars for an overage crowd.”

Unless I have been mistaken in my years of attending concerts at the Barrymore Theater, this venue still serves beer even during “all ages” shows. They simply do what every other bar-type place does and checks IDs. The Barrymore is at least one place where “Underagers would have an entertainment option, while overagers need not choose between alcohol and entertainment.”

Kevin McCormack
Uw senior

Good luck to Wisconsin citizens in overcoming discredited racist cannabis laws that create a stumbling block to reducing discomfort in peoples lives. Many citizens use cannabis responsibly and are tired of the various forms of government discriminatory deceit directed toward them. To cage sick citizens using cannabis for relief of pain is vile, morbid and spiteful for a civilization in the year 2002.

It was discomforting witnessing my 16-year-old dying with cancer allowed to self-induce morphine every six minutes for pain but denied cannabis use.

In 1989 DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young concluded not only that marijuana’s medical usefulness had been adequately demonstrated, but the plant had been shown to be “one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.”

God gave us cannabis and put cannabinoid (THC) receptor sites in our brains — who prohibits man from making that connection? Hint: check 1 Timothy 4:1-5.

Stan White Dillon, Co