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  No, Medical Marijuana Is a Hoax

Posted by FoM on October 16, 2000 at 07:45:47 PT
By Joyce Nalepka  
Source: Duluth News-Tribune 

Tell your congressman that you're among the 85 percent of Americans opposed to legalizing drugs. Help him or her understand there's a campaign of misinformation to legalize drugs beginning with the ``marijuana cigarettes are medicine'' hoax.We've fought drug legalization since 1977 when ``legalizers'' were a few stoned disciples of LSD advocate Timothy Leary. We stopped them in 1978 by defeating Rep. Newton Steers, a Maryland Republican who supported weaker drug controls.
In fact, legalization was ``dead'' until the legalizers convinced four wealthy fat cats -- financier George Soros, Progressive Insurance CEO Peter Lewis, Apollo Group President John Sperling and Men's Warehouse CEO George Zimmerman -- that legalizing marijuana was the answer to America's drug problem.Soros and his cronies are pouring millions into misinformation campaigns aimed at passing state initiatives that would violate the Federal Controlled Substances Act. States simply do not have the authority to legalize marijuana, heroin and ecstasy, no matter how many signatures are gathered.The legalizers chose to support state initiatives knowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will not approve marijuana cigarettes as medicine. And voters, of course, aren't allowed to approve medicines. Under existing law, only the FDA has that authority.The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has led the legalization march. Concerned parents call its founder, Keith Stroup, the ``Father of the Teen Marijuana Epidemic.''And no wonder! In High Times, a magazine that chronicles the marijuana subculture, Stroup wrote that ``there's no particular evidence that even those few young people who smoke a great deal of marijuana necessarily hurt their level of performance, academic or otherwise.''Stroup also told a group of students at Atlanta's Emory University: ``We're trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.''The legalizers touted marijuana cigarettes as a medicine long after the National Institutes of Health warned:``People with HIV and others whose immune system is impaired should avoid marijuana use.''Another legalizing group, the Drug Policy Foundation, recently merged with Soros' Lindesmith Center. DPF's idea of prevention was to develop a ``safe crack smoking pipe.'' Apparently it's OK for crack to burn out your brain as long as it doesn't burn your lips in the process.Unfortunately, the efforts of anti-drug parents are no match for the likes of Soros and his associates. They've literally poured money into the campaign coffers of numerous politicians, including Vice President Al Gore. Gore, it should be noted, has withdrawn his support for the use of ``medical marijuana cigarettes.'' He should return Soros' campaign contributions as well.Other prominent politicians backing legalization are Gov. Gary Johnson, R-N.M., and Rep. Tom Campbell, R-Calif., who is running for the Senate this fall against Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein.Americans should go to the polls next month and vote to send lawmakers who favor legalization into political exile where their bizarre ideas can't hurt America's children. That would be real harm reduction.Nalepka is president of America Cares Inc. and Drug-Free Kids -- America's Challenge.America Cares http://www.americacares.org/CannabisNews Articles - Joyce Nalepkahttp://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=Joyce+NalepkaIs Now The Right Time To Legalize Marijuana? By James Bovard How much power should some people have to punish other people for politically incorrect habits?Since 1937, the U.S. government has been waging war against marijuana users. According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 70-plus million Americans have used marijuana at least once in their lifetimes.Yet, the federal government still considers marijuana to be the Great Satan. Nearly 700,000 people were arrested for marijuana violations in 1998 -- more people than were arrested for murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined, as the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws points out.Law enforcement resources are limited: The more time cops spend on marijuana crackdowns, the less time they have to protect Americans against violent predators.How many murders and rapes go unprosecuted because law enforcement is racking up impressive Vietnam-style body counts against potheads?Marijuana laws are more harmful than marijuana. A recent National Academy of Science study concluded: ``Except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range of effects tolerated for other medications.''A 1999 study by the University of Toronto found that marijuana has far less adverse effect on drivers than does alcohol. The British medical journal Lancet editorialized in 1995 that ``the smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health.''According to more than 100 published studies, marijuana can provide medical benefits to people suffering from multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, asthma, and the effects of a stroke.Marijuana is also invaluable for people suffering from chemotherapy or the effects of AIDS treatment.A 1999 Gallup poll found that almost three-quarters of Americans favored permitting the use of marijuana as medicine. Yet Drug Czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey ridicules claims of marijuana's medical benefit as ``Cheech `n' Chong medicine.''Most people who smoke marijuana do not do so for medicinal purpose -- unless one considers alleviation of tension or boredom or unhappiness as medicinal. Marijuana may have fewer side-effects than Prozac, Zolaft or other widely used anti-depressants.It is also debatable whether moderate marijuana use is more mind-numbing than an addiction to television. Excessive marijuana use can, like excessive alcohol consumption, sap a person's will and undermine the person's character. But simply because some substance is harmful in some circumstances does not justify allowing politicians to seize more power over everyone.The war on marijuana is dismally failing to protect children. The percentage of eighth-graders who used marijuana tripled between 1991 and 1997. More high school students (90 percent) reported that marijuana was ``fairly easy'' or ``very easy'' to get in 1998 than ever before, according to a federally funded anti-drug survey.There is no proof that legalizing marijuana would result in increased usage. Marijuana is legal for adults in the Netherlands. The percentage of Americans who have used marijuana during their lifetime, or in the last month, is more than double the percentage of Dutch who have used marijuana.Marijuana should be legalized. The same type of restrictions that currently prohibit the sale of alcohol to minors could be enforced as well on marijuana. The system would not be foolproof -- but it would certainly be far less ludicrous than the status quo.Yes, unclog prisons, fight real crime.Bovard is the author of the just-published ``Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion & Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years'' (St. Martin's Press). Send your views on this column or the one below to Letter to the Editor, by e-mail to: letters duluthnews.com or by mail to 424 W. First St., Duluth MN 55802. Source: Duluth News-Tribune (MN)Published: October 13, 2000Copyright: 2000 Duluth News-TribuneContact: newstrib duluth.infi.netAddress: 424 W. First St., Duluth, MN 55802Website: http://www.duluthnews.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:TLC - DPFhttp://www.lindesmith.org/NORMLhttp://www.norml.org/High Times Magazinehttp://www.hightimes.com/CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives:http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtmlCannabisNews Articles - Legalizationhttp://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=legalization

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Comment #11 posted by observer on January 10, 2003 at 17:43:50 PT
FYI: Nalepka (June 2000)
http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2000/June/pimlicos_de_francis.shtml''Is Glendening part of a secret cabal devoted to legalization of marijuana? The governor's office says no, but Joyce Nalepka, an anti-drug activist from Silver Spring, is suspicious. ... Nalepka called Morrill a liar. Morrill told Nalepka to leave his office. As tempers flared, Morrill dispatched someone to comb through 13 undamaged rolls of film to see whether the photo might yet exist.''
Sunday, June 4, 2000
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Comment #10 posted by janet on March 09, 2002 at 11:57:19 PT:
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people dont get me wrong i dont approve legalization for recreational use.but only for medicinal use only.i have told my 12 year old son about the pros and cons of legal and illegal drugs. which i dont do illegal drugs and haven't for over 11 years. but nly for medicinal purposes do i only approve. i do admit that legal or illegal it is up to the parents to monitor their children and be involved in their childrens lives and a lot of them wouldn't be behind the school smoking it 
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Comment #9 posted by janet on March 09, 2002 at 11:48:40 PT:
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i have read the comments on all sides of the board i use to smoke marijauna for several years and i can tell you that i stillhave my eyesight because of using it. i have sever back pain and insomnia and ulcers and when i used it i had relief from all these problems if they legalize it i would use again i am on methadone and darvocet and they do more harm to my body than pot ever did. alcohol is legal and it does more harm and causes more srecks than cannibis. i drove all the time and i wasnt stoned out like people do on alocohol.so who is without sin cast the first stone
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Comment #8 posted by observer on March 29, 2001 at 11:47:18 PT
FYI: Joyce "Carrie Nation" Nalepka's New Site
The Freedom Smasher's new site: http://www.ourdrugfreekids.orgKeep in mind, Joyce "Carrie Nation" Nalepka requests that you call her, if you have any questions:from her site, 3/29/2001:``If you have any questions feel free to call: Joyce Nalepka 301 681-7861''
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Comment #7 posted by Kanabys on October 17, 2000 at 05:56:00 PT
Mental disorder
Sounds to me like this ***ch Nalepka has some sort of disorder of the brain, OCD perhaps. Maybe a carefully monitored regimen of Cannabis would help.
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on October 16, 2000 at 19:56:17 PT
Thanks observer
You always come up with such good information. What impresses me are the different ways that people express how they feel here on C News. So much wisdom. I guess the way to wisdom is going thru the school of hard knocks. We sure have have been to that school!Peace, FoM!
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Comment #5 posted by observer on October 16, 2000 at 17:31:54 PT
Nalepka 1/3
from:Marijuana Alert, p.429- Peggy Mann, 1985 Joyce Nalepka and the NFPLike Sue Rusche, Joyce Nalepka was the mother of two small boys when she abruptly “became involved.” She lives in Silver Spring, a suburb of Washington, DC, and one afternoon in 1978 a boy up the street asked her to buy his three tickets to a “Kiss” [ http://www.kissonline.com/ ] concert at the Capital Center, since he couldn’t go. “Little kids love this group,” he assured her. “Especially sevento eleven-year-olds.” Kevin was nine and Keith five, and they were ecstatic about the concert -- until they got there.Kevin later described the scene. “A lot of the audience were my age and younger. There were also young parents with three- and four-year-old kids. As soon as the lights went off, everybody lit up. It looked like little flames everywhere. Within twenty minutes you couldn’t see the other side of the arena because of all the pot smoke. After a while, I felt like my head wasn’t attached to my shoulders. And Keith said, ‘Mom, my head is spinning. I feel like I’m gonna throw up.’”Joyce remembers the scene at the concert: “It was the first time I’d ever smelled pot, or seen a bong, which they were passing around behind us. My clearest emotion was anger. About 15,000 kids were sitting there getting their minds blown away on pot!”They left early. Nalepka said to the guard at the door, “There’s a federal law and a state law that pot is illegal. You don’t allow smoking at other events. During ice hockey and basketball there’s a loudspeaker announcement at regular intervals, ‘No smoking!’”“This is a different audience,” said the guard. “If we tried to arrest anyone, we’d start a riot.”The next day Nalepka phoned Prince George’s county executive six times, but the calls were not returned, so she wrote to the governor of Maryland who contacted the county executive, who called Nalepka to tell her that since the arena was a privately-owned business, the police could not go in unless asked to. She reminded him that the arena was built on government property, and that she was only requesting him to enforce the law. She kept up the pressure. Six months later, at the Jefferson Starship rock concert at the arena, seventeen drug dealers were arrested.Meanwhile, Joyce and her husband, Ray, took a long look at their own very typical middle-class neighborhood and were appalled to find that drugs429MARIJUANA ALERTwere being dealt by older boys outside the elementary school their sons attended.Then Nalepka learned that her congressman, Newton Steers, from Maryland’s eighth district, was a sponsor of a House bill favoring decriminalization; “possession, distribution, or transfer of an ounce or less of marijuana in a private dwelling or public area” would be “subject to a civil fine of not more than $100.”Nalepka asked a number of youngsters what they thought “decriminalization” meant. The children “knew.” It meant, as one ten-year-old explained, “the government says it’s legal to smoke pot because it’s an okay drug.”As it happened, Congressman Newton Steers was running for re-election. Nalepka had thousands of copies of his bill, H. R. 4737, printed. She stapled her memo to it: “Congressman Newton Steers is in favor of DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA. In light of the recent DRUG PROBLEMS THAT FACE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS it is time for a change in this kind of thinking. Let us vote for people who uphold the DRUG LAWS AND AGAINST NEWTON STEERS.” She and a few friends distributed these at “Meet the Candidate Nights,” and in grocery stores, apartment buildings, churches, even department store ladies’ rooms. “Any place anyone would stick out their hands to take one,” Nalepka said.She also set up a telephone chain concerning the congressman’s decrim stand. The “distribution system” worked. “If you know a child who’s been hurt by marijuana, call five people, and ask them to call five more. If you know a child who started on pot and went on to harder drugs, call ten people, and ask them to call ten more. And if you know a child who started on pot, went on to harder drugs and OD’d, call twenty-five people, and ask them to call twenty-five more.”Twenty mothers picketed Steers’s headquarters with, says Nalepka, “gentle signs that read ‘A drug-pusher cheers for every vote for Steers,’ and ‘Mr. Steers should be for Dick and Jane, not Mary Jane.’” (Mary Jane, or M. J., is marijuana.) She contacted local radio and TV stations, and a few of them covered the story of the picketing antipot moms.One afternoon Nalepka visited Steers’s campaign headquarters and showed the congressman a one-ounce jar of dried parsley, six inches high and two and a half inches in diameter. She informed him, “If this were one ounce of marijuana -- which you want to decriminalize -- it would make twenty to sixty joints.” The congressman did not reply.The papers had all predicted a large win for Newton Steers. But he was roundly defeated. An angry aide asked Nalepka who had funded her. She told him, “All I spent was $29.70 for printing.”
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Comment #4 posted by observer on October 16, 2000 at 17:30:20 PT
Nalepka 2/3
430 THE PARENT MOVEMENT FOR DRUG-FREE YOUTHSeveral days later, ex -- Congressman Steers telephoned and said, “My friends are now telling me that I lost on the marijuana issue. I have to compliment you for doing a very effective job.” Then, he added: “I wasshocked when you showed me how much an ounce of marijuana really is.” (Steers later took a strong antipot position.)The day after Congressman Steers was defeated, Ray Nalepka told his wife, “For God’s sake, get all these papers off the dining room table so we can stop eating in the kitchen.” So she went to People’s Drug Store to buy some file folders. Displayed at the checkout counter were E-Z Wider rolling papers, used for rolling joints. She promptly contacted the president of People’s, as well as the president of Drug Fair, another chain. The result of her one-woman campaign: In November 1979 both announced their stores would no longer sell rolling papers. Subsequently, Drug Fair became the first large firm in America to mount a major (half-million-dollar) drug-abuse prevention campaign, focused around the parent movement, called Straight Talk on Drugs. Drug Fair developed a series of pamphlets on various drugs, offered free through their stores, plus an instructional pamphlet on how to set up a parent group. In 1983 People’s Drug Store also mounted a major antidrug campaign with similar pamphlets in all states where their stores are located.In November 1979, Nalepka was invited to testify at U.S. Senate hearings on drug paraphernalia. She heard the manufacturers argue that “you can’t outlaw drug paraphernalia. Kids can make it out of anything.” They held up cardboard toilet-paper rolls lined with tin foil (homemade bongs), and McDonald’s plastic stirring spoons, which the paraphernalia people claimed were “the best cocaine spoons in town -- free with every cup of coffee.” That evening Nalepka made three phone calls and finally got through to McDonald’s president in Illinois. She said that she was testifying the next day, and that she would like to be able to announce that McDonald’s was withdrawing and redesigning their plastic spoons. The president, Ed Schmidt, was immediately sympathetic. He made the decision within an hour. Nalepka sat up until 1:00 A.M. typing out a press release, which she took to the printer at 8:30 the next morning. She arrived at the hearings with a stack of press releases announcing that McDonald’s was withdrawing the spoons in their four thousand outlets nationwide, and would replace them with a flat paddle stirrer. Her release was used throughout the United States and abroad.Prior to these drug-related activities Nalepka’s only experience in working outside the home was occasionally teaching neighbors how to bake bread.431 MARIJUANA ALERTBut, undaunted by her lack of professional experience, Nalepka and her Washington, DC, lawyer friend Jill Gersteinfield spent the next months speaking to PTAs and community groups, and appearing on radio and TV. Their subject: adolescent alcohol and drug abuse. They also testified on drugrelated issues before the Maryland state legislature and committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. In so doing, they became acquainted with their own senator, Charles Mathias of Maryland, who was interested in the drug issue. Nalepka gave him some up-to-date material on the health hazards of marijuana -- which proved to be a fortunate move. One morning in November 1979, she called the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to inquire as to the status of the Criminal Code Revision, a massive document containing a variety of revisions of many sections of the federal Criminal Code. She had just learned that this revision included a small section that would decriminalize personal possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana (about 1 ounce).She was aware that if decrim became federal law, this would put pressure on the thirty-nine states that had not yet decriminalized -- especially since NORML was sponsoring lawsuits and otherwise pushing hard for decrim in many of these states. Nalepka determined to do what she could to have this segment of the bill removed from the package. She immediately phoned Mathias, also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and was told he was out of town. She managed to contact the senator, who returned to Washington at once -- just in time for the Judiciary Committee meeting.The entire Criminal Code revision was voted out of committee and was therefore on its way to the Senate floor. But Mathias asked for permission to hold hearings on the scientific and medical evidence of marijuana’s harmfulness, and the committee agreed that the bill could be held up until after the hearings. Mathias promptly called in David Martin, who had organized the six-day Senate hearings on marijuana in 1974 (see Chapter 1) and, within a month, Martin lined up a group of leading marijuana researchers, as well as parent group leaders and educators. Since the 1974 hearings had been criticized by the media as being “one-sided,” Martin also invited four members of the advisory board of NORML to testify: Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Dr. Norman Zinberg, Dr. Thomas Ungerleider, and Dr. Dorothy Whipple.
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Comment #3 posted by observer on October 16, 2000 at 17:28:41 PT
Nalepka, 3/3
 In the weeks prior to the hearings, Nalepka and two other Maryland mothers, Pat Burch and Susan Silverman, bought a hundred 1-ounce jars of dried parsley. They visited the offices of over half the senators on the Hill, managing to see either the senator or a top aide. The great majority of those they spoke to were surprised to learn that 30 grams of marijuana (the amount scheduled to be decriminalized) equaled the amount of parsley432 THE PARENT MOVEMENT FOR DRUG-FREE YOUTHin the six-inch-high jar. The mothers gave each of the senators or aides information on the health hazards of marijuana. And they left with each a parsley jar, plus a copy of the just-published Reader’s Digest article, “Marijuana Alert: Brain and Sex Damage.” The three mothers impressed the senators by their genuine concern. Various senators later called this the single most effective piece of lobbying they had ever seen on the Hill.The Mathias hearings took place on January 16 and 17, 1980. The hearings made it obvious to the senators that there was no longer any meaningful controversy in the scientific community. Marijuana was a health hazard. No responsible senator could vote for a law that would be “read” as government approval of this drug.This point had been tellingly made at the hearings by Jeff Hamilton, son of TV-producer Joe Hamilton, stepson of Carol Burnett Hamilton, and a former heavy pot-user. He told the senators: The worst thing about decrim is the unmistakable message of “okayness” it gives to kids. Not only that it’s okay to smoke grass, but also that pot must be harmless, since the government would obviously not decriminalize a harmful drug. I have searched, and honestly can find no sound reason to feel that decriminalization would have any other effect than a negative and slow deterioration of the minds of the people of this nation. After the hearings Mathias co-sponsored an amendment to remove the decriminalization segment of Senate Bill 1722 (the Criminal Code revision) and “return to current law.” The amendment was passed.Not a single state has decriminalized marijuana since the Mathias hearings.Five months after the hearings, the National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth was officially born. Joyce Nalepka was made the executive coordinator, and, in July 1984 she became president, with a paid staff of eight full-time (usually overtime) assistants, plus volunteers. All other NFP officers and all board members are volunteers -- including the two-woman legislative committee, Pat Burch and Susan Silverman, who worked on such issues as lifting the ban on paraquat spraying, the change in the Posse Comitatus law, the crime package including bail reform and forfeiture, and keeping marijuana a Schedule I drug.“When we started,” said Burch, “it was difficult to get most congressman or senators to address the drug issue. But by 1982, the climate had changed. There were over a hundred drug-related bills and most of the Congressmen sponsoring these bills were anxious for NFP’s endorsement.”Congressional staffers frequently say that Burch and Silverman are one433 MARIJUANA ALERTof the most effective lobbies in Congress. Their goals are simple -- though difficult. As Silverman puts it: “We must do everything we can to give a clear message to the American people that the U.S. government will not tolerate the use of illegal drugs.”One reason congressional attitudes have changed toward the drug issue is that, since 1980, congressmen and women have been hearing from their antidrug constituents throughout the country. And the man who has done most to encourage people to let congressmen know their concerns on this matter is Otto Moulton.Marijuana Alert, Peggy Mann, 1985http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9997732243/ 
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Comment #2 posted by observer on October 16, 2000 at 09:56:33 PT
Nalepka, The ``Concerned'' Parent
> I'd love to debate her on a national talk program sometime.That would be great ... hopefully a thoughtful forum of resonable length, where she would not be able to interrupt you. There is a section devoted to Joyce Nalepka in the late Peggy Mann's rabid prohibitionist collection of alarmist propaganda ("Marijuana Alert!", 1985). I might post some excerpts of that for a little walk down reefer madness memory lane... Some of her little propaganda tricks and publicity stunts in front of grandstanding politicians (to the end of imprisoning and more harshly treating ever more adults who responsibly use cannabis) have to be seen to be believed. Comrade Nalepka would be more amusing if she didn't have a trail of incarcerated peaceful adults following her shrill "concerned parent" (totalitarian) politics. No one knows how many rapists and murders have been released to make room for Nalepka's political prisoners (adults who use cannabis). Borrowing the list of (propaganda) "Themes in Chemical Prohibition" http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/ticp.html , let's briefly look at Joyce's classic prohibitionist method of operation.1. The drug is associated with a hated subgroup of the society or a foreign enemy.``a few stoned disciples of LSD advocate Timothy Leary . . .the legalizers . . .four wealthy fat cats . . .Father of the Teen Marijuana Epidemic. . . Soros and his cronies . . .Another legalizing group . . .The legalizers touted marijuana cigarettes . . .''2. The drug is identified as solely responsible for many problems in the culture, i.e., crime, violence, and insanity.``the Teen Marijuana Epidemic. . .bizarre ideas . . .hurt America's children. . .''3. The survival of the culture is pictured as being dependent on the prohibition of the drug.``America Cares Inc. and Drug-Free Kids -- America's Challenge. . .a campaign of misinformation to legalize drugs . . .misinformation campaigns aimed at passing state initiatives that would violate the Federal ControlledSubstances Act. . .''4. The concept of "controlled" usage is destroyed and replaced by a "domino theory" of chemical progression.``Marijuana Epidemic . . . to legalize marijuana, heroin and ecstasy . . .Apparently it's OK for crack to burn out your brain . . .''5. The drug is associated with the corruption of young children, particularly their sexual corruption.`` the Teen Marijuana Epidemic . . .young people who smoke a great deal of marijuana . . .their bizarre ideas...hurt America's children . . .Drug-Free Kids . . . ''6. Both the user and supplier of the drug are defined as fiends, always in search of new victims; usage of the drug is considered "contagious."``Soros . . . crack smoking pipe . . .Apparently it's OK for crack to burn out your brain . . .''7. Policy options are presented as total prohibition or total access.``legalizing drugs. . .to legalize drugs . . .drug legalization . . .legalization was ``dead'' until the legalizers . . .The legalizers touted marijuana cigarettes . . .prominent politicians backing legalization . . . ''8. Anyone questioning any of the above assumptions is bitterly attacked and characterized as part of the problem that needs to be eliminated.``send lawmakers who favor legalization into political exile . . .''
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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on October 16, 2000 at 08:08:20 PT:
Dear Joyce
Joyce Nalepka proves herself to be suffering from two serious diseases: rabid exaggeration with terminal misinformation. The only thing correct in her assertions are the quotations to my knowledge. I'd love to debate her on a national talk program sometime. It would be nice to ask her to prove her assertions. I can, thanks to the 800 articles and 40 books I've read on the subject of cannabis the last 4 years. All she has is a bunch of propaganda. That does not represent proof in my book.
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