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Texas Reformers Test Federal Gag Order!
Posted by FoM on May 11, 1999 at 08:13:49 PT
On Drug-Policy Debates!
Source: High Times
There's $500 available right now from the Drug Policy Forum of Texas for anyone who wants to go there to speak on the philosophy behind drug prohibition. The only catch is that you have to be prepared to justify and defend it, a task that so far has intimidated all the best anti-drug speakers in the nation.
The DPFT's well-publicized offer has been standing for over three months now, but absolutely no one has accepted the opportunity. "We began to realize many years ago that we can't get these damn guys to come out and debate," the Austin Chronicle was told by DPFT founder Alan Robison, a retired pharmacology professor at the University of Texas Health Center there. "This is a deliberate strategy. These guys know if they don't come, there's no discussion."Since the early '90s, anti-drug advocates have methodically exploited the mainstream media's timidity at addressing the issue, by simply refusing to confront and debate reform advocates in public forums, face to face. While TV networks and national newspapers will readily serve as one-sided sounding boards for anti-drug propaganda from the White House drug czar's office, PRIDE, DARE, and Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, none will ever present progressive drug-reform arguments without "balancing" them against standard prohibitionist mouthpieces. So when anti-drug advocates simply refuse to appear on shows or debate panels to confront reform advocates, they succeed in getting the media to effectively censor themselves from ever addressing any progressive ideas for drug-law reform.Click here or above to read the whole article!http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9905/texasreformers.html
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