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Debunking 'Medicinal' Marijuana 
Posted by CN Staff on April 26, 2003 at 23:07:24 PT
Letter to the Editor by Dr. Robert L. DuPont
Source: Washington Times 
Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is on the right track with his concern for youth and for breaking "the cycle that leads to a life of crime," as the reporter wrote in "Youth agency changes name" (Metro, Wednesday). We must go still further by preventing young people from getting into that cycle in the first place.Drugs are a fast track to crime, and marijuana is the leading gateway drug. Mr. Ehrlich needs to counter the dangerous myths that marijuana is harmless, that smoking pot is a civil liberty, and the even more bizarre idea that this complex, carcinogenic and frequently mold-contaminated substance could be "medicine."
We must help the public understand that there is a small but well-funded group that would like to legalize all drugs, not just marijuana. These are the folks who have so successfully misled the public, including many Maryland legislators, into believing smoked marijuana is a "medicine." This misunderstanding is not accidental. Since the 1970s, there has been an aggressively orchestrated effort to use this issue as a ramrod to legalize marijuana.People in the medical-marijuana movement are putting on white coats and expressing concerns for the welfare of the sick. People who truly are concerned about those suffering from serious illnesses need to see this movement for what it is: a hoax.It is easy to see that the advocates of smoked marijuana as medicine are not sincere. They universally decry the use of the purified chemicals found in marijuana as medical treatments. They only support "smoked dope" as a "medicine." This simple fact unmasks their hoax.As a nation, we are not helping either our youth or sick people by circumventing the standard rules governing any medicine to be prescribed by physicians. Medicines need to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective. Smoking is not accepted as a route of administration for any medicine because it is an unhealthy and unreliable drug delivery mechanism.I agree with Mr. Ehrlich that we must save these young people at whatever stage we recognize their need. There should be no disagreement that we must first make sure they understand the truth about this dangerous drug. Many young people in detention for crimes were involved in drugs before their arrests. We can all do better. Dr. Robert L. DuPontPresidentInstitute for Behavior and Health Inc.RockvilleSource: Washington Times (DC)Author: Dr. Robert L. DuPontPublished: April 27, 2003Copyright: 2003 News World Communications, Inc. Website: http://www.washtimes.com/Contact: letters washingtontimes.comRelated Articles & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmStanding Up To Bullieshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15893.shtmlGOP Leaders Press Ehrlich To Veto Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15873.shtmlDrug Czar Calls Marijuana Bill Immoralhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15791.shtml 
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Comment #10 posted by freedom fighter on April 28, 2003 at 17:45:18 PT
Darwin, yep!
Joyciee the silver-hair grandma, Calivina? Fay and many others.. Her hands got caught in a cookie jar, and that's why she is not tellin how much she got from John Walter's pocket yet! all of them involving the Seed and Straight programs that killed so many children. I still do'nt understand why anyone would take advice from them today. Joyce is a witch dressed in a witchhunter dress.Get the hell out of my backyard!pazff
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Comment #9 posted by palmspringsbum on April 28, 2003 at 11:28:48 PT:
The DisHoner Roll
"Medicines need to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective. "Prescription drugs AS PRESCRIBED are the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.Fen-Phen. Serzone. Oxycontin. Etc., Etc., Etc....
palmspringsbum
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Comment #8 posted by darwin on April 28, 2003 at 06:30:58 PT
Joyce & Dupont
This is where Joyce gets her backing. She's worked with Robert Dupont in the past and I think she received funding from him.
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Comment #7 posted by freedom fighter on April 27, 2003 at 14:15:38 PT
Man who gave the seed money to the Seed
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:CW4yQDcyXWYC:thestraights.com/pickets/dfaf-and-drug-policy-5page-short.doc+Institute+for+Behavior+and+Health+Inc+Dr.+Robert+L.+DuPont&hl=en&ie=UTF-8"It was Dr. DuPont's NIDA that administered a $ 1 million grant to The Seed -- Straight's predecessor program."----Is'nt it amazing that this doctor got something published in such a prestige publication?--------"For 17 years Straight, Inc. was the biggest chain of juvenile drug rehabilitation programs the world has even seen--and it was one of the most abusive. Beatings, painful restraints of kids by kids, spitting in kids' faces, forcing kids to sit in their own urine, feces, and menstrual blood, food and sleep deprivations, school deprivation--and the extraction of sexual confessions. Straight humiliated kids into submission and, as you might expect,  many clients carved on their bodies as their only expression of defiance (and as a call for help to get out).  But Straight watched them 24/7 to insure no one actually committed suicide which is exactly what many did do once they got out as documented at www.thestraights.com/theprogram/suicides.htm . As many as 50,000 kids at treatment centers all over America were incarcerated in Straight's private prisons. Straight's abuses are documented in a recent on-line, FOX News report [3] which includes the story of Samantha Monroe who was made to wear the same pants for days at a time which became filled with her own urine, feces and menstrual blood."Why should I entrust my child to a murderer?pazff
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Comment #6 posted by observer on April 27, 2003 at 13:34:37 PT
Dupontisaurus
Someone please remind this dinosaur Dupontisaurus that the Dutch have pulled out the "hoax" rug from under him and his fellow prohibitionist travellers.Marijuana Now Legal in Dutch Pharmacies (March 2003) -
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/15/thread15747.shtmlMedical cannabis is not "bizarre". Medical cannabis is not a "hoax". Medical marijuana is reality, and has been reality for thousands of years.''They only support 'smoked dope' as a 'medicine.' This simple fact unmasks their hoax.''Another bald-faced lie.I just visited three of the many medical cannabis clubs in San Francisco. The existence and sale of brownies and other edible medicines made from whole cannabis show that Dupont and his ilk are lying, again. The dinosaur Dupontisaurus is evidently related to the serpent.Dupontisaurus' glib assertion (''Medicines need to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective'') that only medicine approved by government is really medicine, is absurd. Only other servile government-worshippers would accept such a self-serving definition. Let's get something straight: what is or isn't a medicine, is not defined by politicians or bureaucrats. What is or isn't a sin, is not defined by politicians or bureaucrats, no matter how much they spend on trying to convince you otherwise.The Dupontisaurus debunked nothing. Read and weep, Dupontisaurus: your prohibitionist lies are headed for extinction. Explain away Dutch policy now, you liar.Marijuana Now Legal in Dutch Pharmacies (March 2003) -
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/15/thread15747.shtml 
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pot
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Comment #5 posted by mayan on April 27, 2003 at 04:38:13 PT
Double Digits
DuPont sure is squirming isn't he? He's definitely reaching by using the same tired arguments he's used since the early 70's. I'd say we've got him scared! Maryland will officially put us in double digits. It's time that the 80% of Americans that support medical marijuana were represented.You gotta' read this dude's biography! It seems that in 1973 DuPont became the first Director of NIDA - overseeing a budget of $280 million per year. Also, as "drug czar"(I didn't realize they had a "drug czar" back then), he coordinated the entire "$1 billion a year" federal drug abuse prevention program. To this day he has a vested interest in the prohibition of cannabis. I can't help but wonder if this man has ever even used cannabis. I also wonder if he realizes that all of his outdated arguments have long since been disproven. No mention of the famed DuPont family here...COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT L. DUPONT, M.D:
http://www.bensingerdupont.com/main/robertdupont.html
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Comment #4 posted by Kegan on April 27, 2003 at 03:26:58 PT:
Last Names In History
Dr. Robert L. DuPontThe DuPont company STARTED prohibition!See Jack Herer's book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes.Figures they'd hire him. His family inheritance relies on prohibition!
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Comment #3 posted by billos on April 27, 2003 at 02:47:46 PT:
DuPont
First of all, is not "DuPont" French? I rest my case.
This A-hole is on the side of the same government that had different drinking fountains for blacks and whites back when they Criminalized Cannabis. It's a goddamn shame.
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Comment #2 posted by freedom fighter on April 27, 2003 at 01:52:32 PT
Here comes the 
goosestepping!Accordin to dupont, everyone must die his way!pazff
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Comment #1 posted by phil_debowl on April 27, 2003 at 00:00:36 PT
dupont
Dr. Robert L. DuPontHmm, DuPont, that name sure sounds familiar
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