Pubdate: Wed, 24 Jun 2015
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
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Author: Jay Bergstrom

WE'VE LOST THE WAR ON DRUGS, EVEN IN OUR PRISONS

Another week in Butte county, another butane hash oil operation 
captured. Statewide - shocked, shocked I am to learn this week that 
our state's prison system is awash in drugs. After spending 40 years 
and a trillion dollars creating the largest gulag in history, it 
would appear that perhaps we are doing something wrong with respect 
to intoxicants.

Of course, "American exceptionalism" will prevent us from even 
looking at the results of other approaches to this problem. Portugal 
and Switzerland provide examples that are studiously ignored by our 
leaders, as they toe the line that retains their seat on the drug war 
gravy train.

I greatly enjoy cannabis, and I am a good person. Perhaps it is the 
cannabis addling me, but I vote every time.

- - Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom