Pubdate: Fri, 12 Sep 2014
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Copyright: 2014 Houston Chronicle Publishing Company Division, Hearst Newspaper
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Author: Rick Potthoff
Page: B6

HIGH ABOVE THE IGNORANCE

Regarding "New 'wax' form of pot can be explosive, feds warn" (Page 
B1, Saturday), isn't it time the Chronicle stopped being complicit in 
spreading "Reefer Madness" nonsense from the U.S. Drug Enforcement 
Administration? The two scare quotes from your article on 'dabs' or 
'wax' is that it's twice as strong as regular pot and that people may 
blow themselves up trying to make it.

People have been smoking hashish with the same strength as 'wax' for 
millennia with no ill effects. If drug prohibition vanished, experts 
would be making 'wax' commercially and the toking public wouldn't be 
trying to make it. Pot use hasn't killed anyone in the history of its 
use (including hashish, sensimilla, and 'wax').

People shouldn't get high and drive, but since the 1960s, auto death 
rates haven't skyrocketed because of pot.

Rick Potthoff, Houston
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