Pubdate: Mon, 25 Nov 2002
Source: Time Magazine (US)
Copyright: 2002 Time Inc
Contact:  http://www.time.com/time/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/451
Author: Lyndon Smith
Note: Time Magazine (Australian edition only AFAIK)

IS AMERICA GOING TO POT?

People are looking at the drug issue from the wrong perspective.  The
question is not whether or pot should be legalized, but why drugs are
illegal in the first place.

Why is it perfectly acceptable to alter your brain chemistry with
alcohol and nicotine while using other drugs to do the same can send
you to jail? America is one of the greatest countries in the world,
but it wasn't always a nation of prisons.

The U.S. is still the home of the brave, but can no longer truthfully
be called the land of the free.

Lyndon Smith,

Sydney
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