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Perspective

Apr. 7, 2015

LETTER: Let's have a real pot talk

Robert Bonner has clearly stated the correct constitutional argument given the current state of the law in his recent column. But there's a few things he neglected to mention. By Joan Aarestad

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

I agree that Judge Robert Bonner has clearly stated the correct constitutional argument given the current state of the law. ["Pot laws and the supremacy clause," April 2]. However, no court to my knowledge has been squarely confronted with the point that marijuana use was at one time accepted for medicinal purposes in the late 1880s and early 20th century and then was outlawed (several years after alcohol was made legal agai...

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