Pubdate: Wed, 19 Feb 2003
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
Copyright: 2003 The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper.
Contact:  http://www.sunspot.net/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/37
Author: Mort Paulson
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n225/a01.html

DRUG POLICIES HURT PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL NEEDS - 2 OF 3

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's crusade against marijuana provides a 
revealing glimpse of the Bush Administration's values and politics.

As The Sun's editorial notes, marijuana kills few if any users, and has 
long been used for medicinal purposes. Tobacco use kills about 440,000 
Americans every year.

Yet the administration seems determined to jail people for marijuana 
offenses while doing nothing about the tobacco epidemic.

Mort Paulson

Silver Spring
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