Pubdate: Sun, 23 Jul 2000
Source: Sun Herald (Australia)
Copyright: 2000 John Fairfax Holdings Ltd
Contact:  http://www.sunherald.com.au/
Author: Arnold Jago

GET OFF THE GRASS

IF YOU'RE wrong and you admit it, you deserve respect.  Such as Dr Robert
Dupont, chairman of the drug dependency section of the World Psychiatric
Association: "Not only is marijuana worse than alcohol and tobacco combined,
it has distinctive properties neither of the others have.  I now consider
marijuana the biggest new health problem in our nation.  For today's
youngsters, kicking the marijuana habit is going to be a life-and-death
struggle.  My past support for decriminalising marijuana was the worst thing
I ever said. I hereby apologise to the American people."

Back in Australia, we have drug "experts" still calling marijuana a "soft"
drug and wanting it legal.

Arnold Jago, Mildura, Victoria
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