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No Shame In Smoking Pot!
Posted by FoM on July 02, 1999 at 11:53:36 PT
Mike Gogulski - President of CCPF
Source: Fairfield County Weekly
Some have said Khalid El-Amin should be ashamed, but I don't think so. There's no shame in smoking marijuana, only in being arrested for it. 
Considering that 76,000 Connecticut adults admit to smoking it every month, El-Amin isn't alone. How many of those 76,000 must be jailed in order to "win" the war on pot? How many real crooks will go free to make room in the prisons? That a champion basketball player smokes challenges the assumptions of the war on marijuana: that smokers suffer from "amotivational syndrome"; that they suffer from reduced motor function and poor coordination; and the implicit claim that they are worthless wretches who need a stiff jail sentence to "straighten them out." We should be ashamed for putting Khalid, his wife, his children, his team, and his fans through all this. In the end, what did it accomplish? Published 07/01/99 Mike Gogulski President, Connecticut Cannabis Policy Forum Hamden, Conn. http://www.ccpf.org/home/home.shtml 
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