SentLTE-Digest Friday, December 17 2010 Volume 10 : Number 079
001 LTE: Re: 'DARE to be better'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: Re: 'Medical marijuana user free after plea deal'
From: Kirk Muse <>
003 LTE: Re: 'Medical marijuana user free after plea deal'
From: John Chase <>
004 LTE: Pot Smoking Makes Comeback Among Teenagers
From: John Chase <>
005 LTE: US MA: Editorial: Marijuana Violence
From: Allan Erickson <>
006 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana violence'
From: Kirk Muse <>
007 LTE: US CA: Editorial: One Toke Over the Line
From: Allan Erickson <>
008 LTE: 'William-Dixon-Our-insane-war-on-drugs'
From: John Chase <>
009 LTE: Re: 'Pandora's box is open with marijuana law'
From: Kirk Muse <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: 'DARE to be better'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:37:20 -0800
To the Editor of The Laurel Leader-Call:
I'm writing about: "DARE to be better" (12-13-10).
Common sense tells us that the DARE program should deter
our youth from using illegal drugs. But it doesn't. DARE
graduates are more likely to use illegal drugs--not less.
Common sense tells us that the Earth is the center of the
universe and our solar system. But it's not.
Common sense tells us that prohibiting a product should
substantially reduce the use of the product that's prohibited.
Actually, prohibition tends to substantially increase the desire
for the product that's prohibited.
Before marijuana was criminalized in the U. S. via the Marijuana
Tax Act of 1937, the vast majority of Americans had never
heard of marijuana. Now everybody in the U. S. knows what
marijuana is and the U. S. government estimates that at least
100 million Americans have used it. About half of all high
school students will use marijuana before they graduate.
People want what they are told they cannot have--especially
children. The lure of the "forbidden fruit" is very powerful.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 002 LTE: Re: 'Medical marijuana user free after plea deal'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:09:45 -0800
To the Editor of The Anniston Star:
I'm writing about Laura Camper's story: "Medical marijuana user free
after plea deal" (12-14-10).
It seems to me that the right to self-medicate should be a fundamental
right. Adult citizens of a so-called free country should not have to
seek permission from their government to use a natural herb that has
never killed anyone in the 5,000 year history of its use.
For those who oppose the use of marijuana, medical or otherwise, I have
some simple advice.
Don't buy it, don't grow it and don't use it. Period.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
Laura, please forward this to the letters editor.
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Subj: 003 LTE: Re: 'Medical marijuana user free after plea deal'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:12:18 -0800
To the Editor of The Anniston Star:
Re:"Medical marijuana user free after plea deal", 12-14-10.
I write to thank the Anniston Star for giving this contentious case
even-handed reporting and editorializing. I am a 76 yr old grandfather
of 8 who does not smoke pot. But I know many people who do. None of them
smoke to excess. They all are law-abiding citizens, except for the
public policy that makes a crime out of something that should not be a
crime. I hope to live to see the day when the government, especially the
federal government, gets out of the prohibition business.
John Chase
727 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 004 LTE: Pot Smoking Makes Comeback Among Teenagers
From: John Chase <>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:07:18 -0800
Editors, Los Angeles Times
Re: "Pot Smoking Makes Comeback Among Teenagers", 15 December
Bad headline.The real story is that Cigarette smoking among teens is now
actually less than pot smoking, and it was achieved without threat of
arrest. But the Drug Czar ignores that success and suggests we try
harder to reduce pot because a parsed selection of the data shows a
slight increase. I dream of the headline, "Anti-Cigarette Strategy to be
Used Against Pot."
John Chase
727 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 005 LTE: US MA: Editorial: Marijuana Violence
From: Allan Erickson <>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:54:25 -0800
US MA: Editorial: Marijuana Violence
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n1034/a05.html?397
ae
http://morningdonut.blogspot.com/
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To the editor-
Your editorial, Marijuana Violence (Tues, Dec 14) is 180 degrees off.
Cannabis (marijuana) is not a substance that induces violence. Rather,
all these associated crimes revolve around cannabis prohibition.
I need only point to the historical example of alcohol prohibition to
make my point. Do we have Coors doing drive by shootings of Budweiser
distributors? No. And why not? Because alcohol is legal and regulated.
Telegram editors need to learn and acknowledge the fallacies that are
the foundation of cannabis prohibition. Rotten roots bear bitter fruit.
Should law be based on facts or xenophobic fantasies? Cannabis
Prohibition is the problem, not the beneficent herb.
Allan Erickson
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Subj: 006 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana violence'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:10:22 -0800
To the Editor of The Worcester Telegram & Gazette:
Re: "Marijuana violence" (12-14-10).
I submit that you have absolutely no marijuana caused violence.
What you have is marijuana prohibition caused violence.
When is the last time you had a story about liquor distributors
killing each other, and innocent bystanders, in gun battle in the street?
Probably 1933, the year we terminated the disaster known as Alcohol
Prohibition.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 007 LTE: US CA: Editorial: One Toke Over the Line
From: Allan Erickson <>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:30:18 -0800
US CA: Editorial: One Toke Over the Line
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n1035/a04.html?397
ae
http://morningdonut.blogspot.com/
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To the editor-
My sincere thanks to Times' editors for the editorial, One Toke Over
the Line (Thur, Dec 16). ONDCP head Gil Kerlikowske has hoisted himself
upon his own petard with his most recent proclamations about debate and
discussion about medical cannabis being the cause of a spike in teen
cannabis smoking.
Mr. Kerlikowske suffers under the delusion that somehow the government
line is the supreme truth on cannabis. In a sense it is, but the
studies done have all been ignored, from the US Army's Panama Canal
Zone Study (1933) to the Institute of Medicine study (1999). The
studies all say basically the same thing, no (or extremely miniscule)
addictive potential and no need for criminalization.
It is Cannabis Prohibition itself which feeds youth use - black market
drug dealers do not check IDs.
Mr. Kerlikowske needs to come out from behind his protective barriers
and publicly debate one of his opposing view, law enforcement peers
like Norm Stamper, Jack Cole or Joe McNamara (a much longer list is
available).
Cannabis Prohibition is both a lie and a failure. End it now, give
teens the truth - just like we did to lower tobacco use.
Allan Erickson
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Subj: 008 LTE: 'William-Dixon-Our-insane-war-on-drugs'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:27:18 -0800
Sent online to the Gainesville Sun
Re:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20101216/NEWS/101219663/1109/sports
Dr. Dixon explains the need for "a fact-based public discussion of the
problem free of the hysteria and morality play..." But fact-based
discussions, so far, have been useless because they begin with the tacit
assumption that the problem is "drugs", so we flap our gums comparing
drugA to drugB to drugC, and end by agreeing that no drug is risk-free.
We should have been discussing how to manage that risk. If the problem
were "drugs" we'd have prohibited such substances as laughing gas and
model airplane glue (for sniffing), tobacco and alcohol. (Actually, we
did prohibit alcohol in the 1920s, but learned not to try again, and not
to try with tobacco.) So, yes, a fact-based public debate, "resolved
that prohibition is an effective way to manage risk."
John Chase
Palm Harbor, FL
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Subj: 009 LTE: Re: 'Pandora's box is open with marijuana law'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:38:36 -0800
To the Editor of The East Valley Tribune:
I'm writing about Don Carstein's not-so-thoughtful letter:
"Pandora's box is open with marijuana law" (12-15-10).
I have some simple advice to Carstein and others who oppose
the use of marijuana for medical use or otherwise. Don't
buy it, don't grow it and don't use it. Period.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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