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 - --- MAP posted-by: Derek