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Readers Cry Reefer Madness
Posted by FoM on October 11, 1999 at 11:25:54 PT
By Redford Givens 
Source: Calgary Herald
Re "Governments caught coming and going on marijuana issues," Calgary Herald, Oct. 9. Hypocritical critics of medical marijuana cannot name one valid reason to outlaw cannabis. Marijuana prohibition is based on the most absurd fables, fictions and falsehoods ever used to enact a law.
Furthermore, every piece of propaganda used to justify marijuana prohibition has been completely debunked by science, medicine and sociology. The "gateway" theory was thoroughly debunked by the recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report with this resounding rebuttal: "Whereas the stepping stone hypothesis presumes a predominantly physiological component to drug progression, the gateway theory is a social theory. The latter does not suggest that the pharmacological qualities of marijuana make it a risk factor for progression to other drug use. Instead it is the legal status of marijuana that makes it a gateway drug." Consider for a moment: ". . . it is the legal status of marijuana that makes it a gateway drug." What implications can be teased from that sentence? The main rationale for keeping marijuana illegal is not that it is so dangerous, but that it can serve as a gateway to other, more genuinely dangerous drugs. But insofar as there is evidence that marijuana use sometimes leads to the use of harder drugs the reason is that marijuana possession and use are illegal. A twisted bit of logic, eh? Take it another step. Those who insist on keeping the plant illegal bear a serious degree of moral responsibility for young marijuana users who do go on to use cocaine, heroin, PCP or other genuinely dangerous or addictive drugs. If Bloc Quebecois MP Yvan Loubier and other drug warriors were really, seriously troubled by the possibility that use of marijuana might lead innocent or psychologically troubled people to harder drugs with much more severe physiological dangers, they would move as quickly as possible to legalize marijuana. The fact that they don't makes their plaintive pleas of compassionate concern for those victimized by addiction and drug-induced disorders ring hollow. There is no mayhem, no madness and no homicides as was claimed when these fraudulent laws were passed. There is no "gateway." And there is no real reason to ban marijuana, but the prohibitionists insist on continuing their Reefer Madness drug policies anyway. Why? Redford Givens San Francisco Givens is a medical marijuana user.Monday 11 October 1999Copyright © 1999 Calgary Herald New Media Governments Caught Coming And Going On MJ Issue - 10/09/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3225.shtml
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Comment #5 posted by maek920 on August 03, 2000 at 02:34:40 PT
!!!!! ware is here!!!!! and it not a joke!!!!
The _____ they will they will take all the amrican rights away from them to wine and if that happen everone will kill the law make and ever one haven something to do with the goverment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #4 posted by maek920 on August 03, 2000 at 02:21:23 PT
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Comment #3 posted by Chris on June 09, 2000 at 12:49:13 PT:
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I wonder what are prohibitonists arguements on the legalization issue... They have nothing because everything they had has beed deproved by Science.. And they should just let lose of what ever they have against the Hem plant and face the facts.. Marijuana is not addictive, not a gateway drug... Nobody will smoke crack or shoot crank just because hey smoked Marijuana yesterday..  congress Allows alcohol, Which by the way kills thousands of ppl every year... But in the history of thousands years Cannabas has been known, NO ONE has ever died or overdosed on this NATURAL PLANT...but yet they allow somethng that MAN made that KILLS ppl every year.. But they are going to strip us of something that GOD put here... Tell me ... who do u trust more...¿
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Comment #2 posted by retird mil. off. guy on October 11, 1999 at 19:07:00 PT
Military Smokers
The best soldiers I had ALL smoked hash in Germany or pot in the world, (states.) I had some good straight ones, too ...The alcoholics were a pain in the kiester ...Judge a man/woman by what they do not what they ingest ...
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Comment #1 posted by military officer guy on October 11, 1999 at 12:11:42 PT
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I'm not sure I understood all of that, but if I did, I'm sure I would have agreed with it...I do agree, the Gateway theory is a huge joke...I've smoked, I'm still in the military, and I don't use crack or cocaine...I also agree with the fact this war on drugs is also a huge joke...keep pushing all, and we'll win this war...
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