Pubdate: Fri, 11 Dec 2009
Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW)
Website: http://www.drugsense.org

LETTER OF THE WEEK

TIME TO END TWO MARIJUANA FICTIONS

By Norman Michael Harman

George F. Will is right ["Rocky Mountain high," op-ed, Nov. 29]: The 
medical marijuana movement is partly a fiction, a stand-in for 
legalization.  This is not to say that marijuana does not relieve a 
wide range of ailments.  It does.  But if Mr.  Will and Colorado 
Attorney General John Suthers believe that medical marijuana will 
cause people to lose faith in the legal system and "care less as law 
itself loses its dignity," they are living in their own fictional world.

The fact that tens of millions of Americans use marijuana -- for 
medical purposes or otherwise -- is testament to the disrespect for 
some laws that marijuana prohibition engenders.  This disrespect 
didn't start with the medical marijuana reforms; it has been going on 
since the misinformation and outright lies that were used to drum up 
support for marijuana prohibition were accepted by a gullible 
Congress in the 1930s.

It's time to rectify both fictions -- medical marijuana and 
prohibition -- through full legalization.

Norman Michael Harman

Harpers Ferry, W.Va.

Pubdate: Sun, 6 Dec 2009

Source: Washington Post (DC)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1063/a06.html 
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