TRIBES: Follow the money

Don’t you just love the quote from attorney Seth Permian, “The economical opportunity is just astronomical — it would be almost negligent to miss out on this.” How about they are intrigued by the idea that pot can help reduce the use of methamphetamine and prescription drugs. WOW.

Really, that’s what the Indian tribes think about legalizing marijuana on the reservations. They acknowledge they have a problem with methamphetamine and prescription drugs, and their solution is to add another drug. Do they not also have a alcohol problem, or am I just stereotyping?

The government, in its usual fashion to remedy past transgressions of history, has made the Indians a dependent class of people by not allowing them to blend in with the rest of society.

Maybe with marijuana they will be better able to blend in with the rest of society and they will have an astronomical amount of money to spend on more drugs!

Welcome to the white man’s government, believing that money will solve all the ills of the world.

GEORGE SILVA

Coeur d’Alene