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A Drug War Fought on Ideology Alone! 
Posted by FoM on March 23, 1999 at 11:18:11 PT
Should marijuana be de-criminalized?
Source: LA Times
 Darn, the facts do get in the way. What are the drug warriors to do now that the most thorough scientific survey ever of the medical consequences of marijuana use concluded this: Marijuana eases pain and quells nausea in cancer and AIDS patients and isn't addictive or a gateway to harder drugs. 
   "Withdrawal symptoms are relatively mild and short-lived," according to the report of the federal Institute of Medicine, and "there is no conclusive evidence that marijuana acts as a 'gateway' drug."   But if the effects of marijuana smoking are no more threatening than smoking cigarettes, as the panel of 35 experts announced last week after an 18-month study commissioned by federal drug czar Barry R. McCaffrey, then why is the cultivation, trade and use of pot regarded as a crime? So if marijuana isn't a gateway drug why shouldn't it be de-criminalized?
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