Pubdate: Tue, 04 Jul 2006
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006 The Ottawa Citizen
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/326
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n846/a08.html
Author: Bruce Mirken
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

IDEOLOGY HAS GONE TO POT

Re: The real dope on marijuana, June 29.

Thank you for your eminently sensible editorial noting the hypocrisy 
and dishonesty of the statements on marijuana in the new UN World 
Drug Report. As an American, I am disturbed to see my government's 
fact-challenged obsession with marijuana infecting international 
bodies, which should know better.

The data are actually beyond question: Marijuana is not only less 
addictive than alcohol, it's far less toxic and in orders of 
magnitude less likely to provoke violence or aggression.

When national and international policy on drugs is driven by ideology 
rather than science, everyone suffers.

Bruce Mirken,

Washington

Marijuana policy project 
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