Corvallis Gazette-Times, 10 Jun 2013 – Regarding your June 3 editorial," Feds must catch up with states on pot laws": The people of Colorado and Washington state are way ahead of the politicians in Washington, D.C. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success. The drug war distorts supply and demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees.
posted on October 28, 2012 by
US OR: PUB LTE: Prohibition Of Pot Is A Gateway Policy
Herald and News, 27 Oct 2012 – Citizens for Safe Schools makes the common mistake in its Oct. 21 commentary of assuming that marijuana prohibition actually deters use. The United States has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available. Decriminalization is a long overdue step in the right direction.
posted on August 6, 2012 by
US OR: PUB LTE: It’s A Deadly Prohibition
Albany Democrat-Herald, 05 Aug 2012 – Regarding your July 22 editorial, if health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents. The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive.
posted on August 6, 2012 by
US OR: PUB LTE: It’s A Deadly Prohibition
Albany Democrat-Herald, 05 Aug 2012 – Regarding your July 22 editorial, if health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents. The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive.
posted on August 2, 2012 by
US OR: PUB LTE: Legalization Is The Sensible Solution
The Register-Guard, 31 Jul 2012 – Regarding The Register-Guard’s July 22 editorial, "Full-bore legalization": If health outcomes instead of cultural norms determined drug laws, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents. The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive. Whites did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding "reefer madness" propaganda.
posted on August 2, 2012 by
US OR: PUB LTE: Legalization Is The Sensible Solution
The Register-Guard, 31 Jul 2012 – Regarding The Register-Guard’s July 22 editorial, "Full-bore legalization": If health outcomes instead of cultural norms determined drug laws, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents. The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive. Whites did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding "reefer madness" propaganda.
posted on July 30, 2012 by
US NJ: PUB LTE: Regulate Marijuana Use Drug War Fuels Crime
Asbury Park Press, 27 Jul 2012 – Regarding Assemblyman Declan J. O’Scanlon Jr.’s July 20 commentary, "Medical marijuana: the facts," not only should medical marijuana be made available to patients in need, but adult recreational use should be regulated. Drug policies modeled after alcohol prohibition have given rise to a youth-oriented black market. Illegal drug dealers don’t I.D. for age, but they do recruit minors immune to adult sentences.
posted on July 23, 2012 by
US VT: PUB LTE: On Recent Marijuana Editorial
Brattleboro Reformer, 20 Jul 2012 – Editor of the Reformer: Regarding your July 13 editorial, the use of synthetic marijuana is an unintended side-effect of the war on natural marijuana. Consumers are turning to potentially toxic drugs made in China and sold as research chemicals before being repackaged as legal incense. Expanding the drug war will do little other than add to what is already the highest incarceration rate in the world. Chinese chemists will tweak formulas to stay one step ahead of the law and two steps ahead of the drug tests. New versions won’t be safer. Misguided efforts to protect children from drugs are putting children at risk.
posted on May 29, 2012 by
US NJ: PUB LTE: Drug War Is Gateway To Drugs
The Record, 27 May 2012 – Regarding "Time to exhale" (Editorials, May 20): The drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers. In 2010, there were 853,839 marijuana arrests in the United States, almost 90 percent for simple possession. At a time when state and local governments are laying off police, firefighters and teachers, this country continues to spend enormous public resources criminalizing Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis. The end result of this ongoing culture war is not lower rates of use.
