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Lost Its Mind
Posted by FoM on August 07, 1999 at 12:03:03 PT
Author: Arthur Sobey 
Source: Norfolk Daily News
In his letter of Friday, July 30, "Lost its mind," Michael Bernhardt begins by chastising the Daily News for practicing the highest form of free-speech journalism; room for opposing views, and ends by assigning moral qualities to a plant; that somehow marijuana is "wrong." 
Marijuana isn't right or wrong. My goodness, it's just a plant. It is a God-given resource for living. It was put here on earth to use just like all other plants. Genesis 1:29 speaks thusly of hemp/cannabis/marijuana and other plants: "Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food." According to the 1998 Monitoring The Future study, an annual federally funded student self-reporting drug survey done through the University of Michigan by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, 90% of 12th graders considered marijuana to be fairly easy or very easy to get. 90%!!! After thirty years of marijuana prohibition, 90% of high school seniors say it's "EASY" to score pot. As an adult who understands the black market, I agree with their analysis. I submit that our drug control problems can't get any worse than they are today. I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I am sick and tired of wasting tens of billions of dollars every year for a drug policy that simply doesn't work; a drug policy that puts our children at greater risk than no policy at all. After a 30 year long civil war against 70 million marijuana users and their families, over 13 million arrests for marijuana crimes, an eightfold increase in prison inmates, after the expenditure of a trillion dollars on marijuana prohibition, what do we have to show for our hard-earned tax money??? Drugs are cheaper, more available and stronger than ever before, and school children with $20 can buy marijuana or any other drug, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anyplace in the USA. It sounds more like a drug non-control policy. What kind of fools are we to tolerate government stupidity of this magnitude? It's long past time for a change in drug policy. What we have been doing simply doesn't work. Our responsibility to our children demands we find a better way.How about...Regulate and educate instead of incarcerate? Sincerely,Arthur Sobeyhttp://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n813.a01.html
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