Pubdate: Thu, 20 Dec 2001
Source: Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
Copyright: 2001 Ledger-Enquirer
Contact:  http://www.l-e-o.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/237
Author: Buster Jones

WHAT'S WRONG WITH POT?

President Bush and his administration have come out and said if you do 
drugs you're helping the terrorists.

Is our CIA a terrorist organization? From the Golden Triangle, they moved 
heroin during the Vietnam War. In the 1970s, they were moving cocaine out 
of South and Central America. And I believe this administration, along with 
the CIA, is again moving heroin out of Afghanistan.

Simply put, our government deals drugs, gets you addicted, then when you 
get caught puts you in prison.

I wish politicians would not use the term "drugs" to include marijuana. In 
fact it is a mild euphoriant. The term "narcotic" describes a drug or 
poison that reduces sensibility by depressing brain function, which can 
cause death by stopping respiration.

Because marijuana has none of these effects, its legal classification as a 
narcotic is without basis. With every country moving in that direction, 
don't you think it's time we legalized marijuana?

BUSTER JONES, Albany, Ga.
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