Pubdate: Mon, 25 Nov 2002
Source: Time Magazine (US)
Page: 10
Copyright: 2002 Time Inc
Contact:  http://www.time.com/time/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/451
Note: The slightly over two columns of published letters ended with a 
summary below. According to the Time ad rate sheet two columns would cost 
$113,120. So counting the three authors not identified below, that's 9 
letters, an average contribution to reform of about $12,500 each! The 
article was the subject of a DrugSense Focus Alert at 
http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0256.html
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1995/a07.html

IS AMERICA GOING TO POT?

Drug czar Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, is just as unpopular with some of our readers as the laws 
against pot are.

"Having a culture warrior like Walters dictate marijuana policy is like 
putting an Islamic fundamentalist in charge of alcohol," wrote a Virginian. 
A New York reader asked, "Where does Walters get off saying the billionaire 
philanthropists who bankroll the movement to legalize marijuana should 
debate him? They don't owe him an explanation any more than someone who 
backs the Red Cross does." And a man in Utah went further: "For Walters to 
cry foul at the marijuana lobby's use of the tactics long employed by 
Republican robber barons is just a hoot!" 
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake