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National Drug War Leaders Disregard Science!
Posted by FoM on April 21, 1999 at 22:53:59 PT
For Immediate Release!
Source: Marijuana Policy Project
WASHINGTON, DCThe White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) endorses the continuing arrest of medicinal marijuana users, according to the April 16 issue of Psychiatric News, the newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
   A full month has passed since the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its landmark report -- yet national drug war leaders maintain their hard-line stance against medicinal marijuana users. ONDCP Deputy Director Donald Vereen told Psychiatric News, "It doesn't matter what the excuse is," and, drawing an analogy to "using cocaine to treat depression," he said that "you are going to get arrested just as fast."Please click the above link to see how you might help!
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