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Tale of Two Capital City Newspapers!
Posted by FoM on April 06, 1999 at 18:46:41 PT
Very good article!
Source: Marijuana News
Marijuananews note: The good news is that the Washington Post has endorsed medical marijuana. The bad news is that, in doing so, they sounded just like the Washington Post. One of the great joys of the Internet is that it makes it possible not only to know what is happening in other places, but also to juxtapose items from different sources in such a way as to help us to gain a better understanding of the nature of the war on truth and freedom. 
Just a day apart the leading papers in the capitals of DEAland and Canada ran editorials endorsing medical marijuana: The Washington Post for the first time, and the Ottawa Citizen in an even stronger reiteration of their previous stand. Compare and contrast. The Post’s piece managed to be both weak and arrogant, while the Citizen’s was bold and forthright. The Citizen published first, so the editors of the Post had the opportunity to learn from a little northern exposure, but that assumes that they would deign to look. I put them here in non-chronological order for a number of reasons, but primarily because -- after reading the Post – one needs something to take the bad taste out of one’s mouth. However, as you read the Post editorial, keep in mind that medical marijuana has previously been endorsed by Canada’s capital city papers, the House of Lords, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, etc. There is not only no indication of these facts in the Post piece, there it seems to try to give the impression that the Post is on the radical cutting edge. One almost expects them to say, "As we’ve being trying to tell you all along…"They want us to think that they are "pushing the envelope" but the only envelope that has been pushed at the Post in decades is the one with the paychecks.)Click on the link above for a great editorial by Richard Cowan!
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