SentLTE-Digest Sunday, October 30 2011 Volume 11 : Number 059
001 LTE: 'Facts on medical marijuana are stubborn things, too'
From: John Chase <>
002 LTE: Re: 'Obama's war on weed'
From: Kirk Muse <>
003 LTE: 'A Regulated Marijuana Market Is Better Than A Black Market'
From: John Chase <>
004 LTE: 'Mills Making Pills'
From: John Chase <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: 'Facts on medical marijuana are stubborn things, too'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:27:05 -0700
Editors, DC Examiner -
Re: "Facts on medical marijuana are stubborn things, too"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/10/facts-medical-mar
Today's prohibitionists are missing a key point made in Ken Burns'
latest documentary, "Prohibition": If the 'drys' of the 1920s had not
been so resistant to repeated proposals to allow beer and wine,
prohibition of distilled liquor probably would not have been repealed.
Their refusal to compromise, in the face of the perceived failure of
Prohibition, weakened public support for Prohibition. Today's
prohibitionists are making the same mistake by their insistence that
marijuana is prohibited because it is addictive and has no medicinal
value. Virtually all of the millions who have tried it know that it has
more medical value and fewer adverse effects than the legal medicines
touted by prohibitionists.
John Chase
727 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 002 LTE: Re: 'Obama's war on weed'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:13:08 -0700
To the Editor of The Miami New Times:
Re: "Obama's war on weed" (10-20-11).
So why did Obama make the sudden about-face on medical marijuana? The
answer lies in the history of alcohol prohibition.
In Ken Burns' outstanding three part NPR documentary "Prohibition" it
was revealed that the alcohol cartels corrupted all
levels of our government; from cops on the beat all the way to the
Warren G. Harding White House.
Are we supposed to believe that the drug cartels are not following Al
Capone's business model? Are we supposed to
believe that the drug cartels don't have several hundred or even
thousands of politicians on their payroll? The alcohol
cartels did.
So my question is: how much did it take for Obama to make the sudden
about-face on marijuana prohibition" A million
dollars, five million dollars, or perhaps ten million dollars? We will
never know.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
Feel free to edit.
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Subj: 003 LTE: 'A Regulated Marijuana Market Is Better Than A Black Market'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:21:04 -0700
Re:"A Regulated Marijuana Market Is Better Than A Black Market", 22 October
The "196 members of the state legislature [who] have yet to catch
up...." are making the same mistake made by the intransigent "Drys"
mentioned in Ken Burns' recent documentary "Prohibition". The Drys'
rigid, repeated refusals to interpret the 18th Amendment to allow beer
and wine weakened public support for Prohibition and contributed to its
repeal. Today's prohibitionists are making the same mistake by resisting
legal marijuana.
John Chase
727 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 004 LTE: 'Mills Making Pills'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:38:14 -0700
Sent online to the SP Times http://www.sptimes.com/letters/
Re: Mills Making Pills
Mr. Taylor has documented serious official conflicts of interest related
to pain pill sales. But he reaches too far when he says they caused
Florida's skyrocketing painkiller sales. At issue is whether the market
is driven by supply alone. He makes the case for restricting supply in
"Past Successes Ignored", when we reduced production quotas of
amphetamine pills in the mid-1970s and then MethÂaqualone (quaalude) in
the early 1980s. He neglects to mention that reducing supply causes
price to rise and buyers turn to other drugs. If manufacture becomes
illegal, a lucrative underground market develops, drawing in potentially
violent men to the illegal trade. This is how we got the scourge of
today's "meth labs". We should instead reduce the demand for illegal
opiates, rather than the supply. The Swiss have done this in their
program of "heroin assisted treatment", combined with a huge expansion
in the availability of methadone maintenance. It is so successful that
even the UN Office of Drug Control has quit complaining about it.
John Chase
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