Pubdate: Thu, 22 Feb 2001
Source: Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
Copyright: 2001 Calkins Newspapers. Inc.
Address: 8400 Route 13, Levittown, PA
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Author: LJ Carden

EDUCATION GOES FURTHER THAN CRIMINALIZATION

I applaud your police department to be the first officials in your 
city to come to their senses regarding cannabis/marijuana.

What is ludicrous is this editorial comparing a teenager 
experimenting with marijuana and kids who rob houses, steal cars and 
shoot people. That is a sensationalistic and sad statement coming 
from someone, who one would think, has access to the facts.

One fact being that D.A.R.E is going down the tubes due to total 
failure to accomplish their goals.

People, even kids, these days are not as easily brainwashed as they 
were in the 1930's, when the lies began about this herb.

There is a small, but vocal minority of people in this county who are 
so narrow-minded about cannabis/marijuana that they seem able to 
overlook all science and revert to that 1930's style brainwashing, 
while brushing off all the facts, including those about the medicinal 
use of cannabis/marijuana.

To compare an experiment with a felony is truly ludicrous.

I applaud your police department to be the first officials in your 
city to come to their senses regarding cannabis/marijuana.

Education, meaning the truth, about this herb will go a lot further 
than continuing the lies.

LJ Carden Concord, Calif. Via the Internet
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