Pubdate: Fri, 14 Jun 2002
Source: Cambridge Reporter, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 The Cambridge Reporter
Contact:  http://www.cambridge-reporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1470
Author: Suz Fox
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1059/a01.html

POLICE SEARCHES DESTROY FUTURES

Prohibition strikes again (13 pot smokers charged, June 7). The direct 
cost/ cause of teenage interest in the illicit can be laid at the door of 
1900 hysteria-based laws. Schools should be monitoring their own lockers, 
as they did in my youth, not potentially ruining their students' futures 
with police searches.

No one wants our youths high on anything but life, but we have no one to 
blame for failure in that goal but ourselves. Maybe we need to learn more 
about what we are teaching, ie. is marijuana all evil as we have insisted? 
Maybe the lesson isn't being believed due to booze and tobacco being legal 
and the lack of protection accorded to their users.

Suz Fox

Kalispell,Mont.
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