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Fighting the War on Drugs and Terror
Posted by CN Staff on August 08, 2002 at 16:04:41 PT
By Miles O'Brien, CNN
Source: CNN.com
When I was in college, Jimmy Carter was president, interest rates were more than 20 percent, job prospects were scarce (especially for slacker history majors such as myself) -- and conventional wisdom held that it was only a matter of time before marijuana possession would be decriminalized. I remember writing a lot of articles for my college newspaper about the efforts of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). 
Of course the pendulum has swung a long way since those days of relatively loose, tolerant views about the benefits and risks of recreational drugs.These days, NORML is still out there and still after a goal that seems elusive as the "insights" on life that dawn on pot smokers in their purple haze.But pot is here to stay and so are efforts to make the use of it a legal thing -- not the sale and distribution, mind you -- just the possession of small amounts.In Nevada voters are debating a referendum that would make it legal to possess up to three ounces of weed. Sure, NORML has weighed in on this -- but there are some strange bong-fellows on this one. To wit: The Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs -- which represents 65 percent of the state's police officers -- is pushing (if you will pardon) for passage of the referendum. That's right: John Law is allied with Cheech and Chong.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/Source: CNN (US Web) Author: Miles O'Brien, CNNPublished: August 8, 2002Copyright: 2002 Cable News Network, Inc. Website: http://www.cnn.com/ Contact: cnn.feedback cnn.comRelated Articles & Web Sites:NORMLhttp://www.norml.org/NRLEhttp://www.nrle.org/Marijuana Policy Projecthttp://www.mpp.org/Police Union Leader Rebukes Support of Marijuana http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13675.shtmlMarijuana Ballot Issue: Police Back Legalization http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13657.shtmlPolice Support Pot Initiative http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13652.shtml
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