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Newshawk: allan
Pubdate: Wed, 1 Apr 2009
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2009 The Modesto Bee
Contact:
Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Author: Leonard Pitts Jr
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?233 (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?227 (Cole, Jack)
HOW ABOUT A WHITE FLAG IN DRUG WAR?
Maybe we should legalize drugs.
I come neither eagerly nor easily to that maybe. Rather, I come by way
of spiraling drug violence in Mexico that recently forced Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton to acknowledge the role America's insatiable
appetite for narcotics plays in the carnage. I come by way of watching
Olympian Michael Phelps do the usual public relations song and dance
after being outed smoking weed, and knowing the whole thing was a
ritualized farce. Most of all, I come by way of personal antipathy: I
don't like and have never used illegal drugs.
But yeah, I'm thinking maybe we should legalize them. Or, at the very
least, begin the discussion.
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MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin
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