DrugSense
posted on April 10, 2013 by
US ME: Want To Promote Public Safety? End The War On Marijuana
Bangor Daily News, 07 Apr 2013 – In the history of the city of Lafayette, Colo., my resignation probably went down as one of the more memorable. I left my position as a municipal court judge in protest of a proposal to increase the penalties for marijuana possession in the city. Some people agreed with my stance, some disagreed, but I suspect the majority of people probably found it frivolous: Did this guy really give up such a powerful position just so he could smoke a doobie in the afternoon? Six years later, those folks are no longer laughing. In fact, most of them probably voted "yes" on the initiative to legalize marijuana in Colorado that passed with a wide margin this past November.
posted on April 8, 2013 by
US ME: PUB LTE: Prohibition Doesn’t Work
Bangor Daily News, 05 Apr 2013 – This letter is in response to a March 29 column called " Marijuana legalization: An easy way out, " by Dr. Robert Q. Dana at the University of Maine. Dana apparently assumes drug prohibition keeps people from using drugs. Drug prohibition does not keep people from using drugs. If anything, it facilitates drug use by turning distribution and sale over to drug dealers who will sell anything to anybody.
