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Queries and manuscripts should include a self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for 800.983.7328 | SECUNM.ORG unsolicited material. Association of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI AUGUST 10-16, 2017 Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, address and daytime phone number via email to [email protected] or faxed to (505) 256-9651. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and may be published in any medium. DeBenedittis for Legal chaos would be if all 7.4 billion people on Earth now, and billions to come, consumed, Cannabis traveled, polluted and ate meat and dairy like Dear Alibi, most USA-ans? Why hog much more than my I am Dr. Peter DeBenedittis, New Mexico’s fair share in the world family? Freedom is not true progressive candidate for governor. I’m having and not wanting so much stuff I do not responding to your July 20-26 article by Joshua need! Lee, “Baked Goods: Dangerously Still.” Your My time is more precious than millions of article implies that I have never been explicit dollars. My close relationships are more about being pro-legalization and that since I precious than luxury mansions full of stuff. No have said that legalization of cannabis is high-paying job is worth selling out my “inevitable,” I am somehow indifferent about conscience and silencing my voice publicly on the issue of legalization. important controversial concerns. I refuse to To clarify my position for Alibi readers. I am be an impotent wimp spectator in the pro-legalization and have actually been quite bleachers of life. vocal about it. I treasure wisdom, deep conversations, It’s not surprising some assume that since health, dear friends living and dead, men I I’ve had a career in youth alcohol prevention, have been in love with ... I aim to live truth as I am anti-cannabis use. However, that’s not best I see it. Why have much more than I need correct. The programs I teach are designed to while many millions worldwide have much less save lives and set students on a path towards than they need? success in college. While 1 out of 6 working- Don Schrader age New Mexicans die from alcohol caused crashes and disease, according to the CDC, no Thank You, August March one has died due to cannabis consumption. Legalizing marijuana and reaping the Dear Alibi, benefits of that for our state seems like the On behalf of Listo NM and the NM Dream only smart choice to me. Legalization would team we want to thank you for having worked generate $400 million in new economic with us on the immigration piece that ran on activity and create 16,000 new jobs in its first the week of July 19-26. year! We appreciate the platform you provided My focus is on fair and progressive through the newspaper to talk about the issues regulation of cannabis when it does become the immigrant community is facing under the legal. If you go on my website, it informs current administration and how we are still readers that I “will sign legislation legalizing fighting back to protect our immigrant families marijuana provided mechanisms are put in nationwide. place that protect children from its usage and Once again, thank you and we hope to remove all tax deductions given to companies continue working with you to inform your for marijuana advertising.” We’ve seen how public of what is happening in the alcohol and tobacco companies continually immigration field in N.M. produce advertising campaigns targeting Isaac J. De Luna Communications Director children, which is why I want to close this Listo NM loophole before it gets opened. Thank you, Taxes and the Poor Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D. New Mexico’s True Progressive Dear Alibi, Listening to talk radio shows, I’ve heard several callers complain about the prospect of Be Happy with Enough universal health care. “Why should I have to Dear Alibi, pay,” they ask, “for the health insurance of Booze, junk food, cocaine, sugar, meth, some guy who doesn’t have any?” To keep it modern wheat, heroin, sodas, cigarettes are all simple, one might respond, “In a universal awful addictions, but no addiction is more system you would not be paying for the other harmful than craving much more money, more guy any more than the other guy would be stuff than we need. paying for you, and what’s more, you’d both be I enjoy having enough—healthy food, one paying less for your health coverage.” sunny room to live in, a garden for food and “How so?” I can anticipate. “Don’t tell me flowers. I lived well all of 2016 on $4,946 for my taxes won’t go up, and that other guy’s my total expenses—rent, food, etc.—less than probably not paying anything.” Here I think half the US poverty level for me as a single one needs to address what appears to be a person. growing misconception about the taxes we pay, The US has less than 5 percent of the especially income taxes. “It’s true,” I’ll allow, world’s people, but the US steals and hogs 25 “that the amounts our citizens pay in income percent of the world’s wealth. How much taxes differ widely, sometimes vastly. But it’s worse the environment and global climate Letters continue on page 6 AUGUST 10-16, 2017 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] invasions, “shock and awe,” torture, Letters continued from page 5 depressions, homelessness, hunger, poverty, loss of species, loss of clean water and air, etc. also true,” I’d hasten to add, “that in our If unwilling to act for humanity, then we system of progressive income tax all citizens might as least act to save the Earth.