Pubdate: Wed, 22 May 2002
Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
Copyright: 2002 The Sun-Times Co.
Contact:  http://www.suntimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/81
Author: Bill Smeathers
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/campaign.htm (ONDCP Media Campaign)

MORE THAN ONE WAY

I am writing to voice my opinion about the "drugs/terrorist" commercials 
now running amok. It is disgusting to say that everyone who buys marijuana 
has some part in the funding of international terrorism. The rationale 
behind this allows our government to take away our rights, makes us pay 
mindless fines, increases defense spending and build prisons for pot smokers.

Everyone who purchases gasoline from companies that purchase oil from 
"terrorist nations" are actually doing more to fund terrorism than pot 
buyers. Last check, this was virtually every major oil company in the 
United States, so everyone who buys gas from them is directly responsible 
for funding terrorist attacks against America!

I wonder: Is terrorism funded by the dollars a pot smoker spends on a bag 
of cannabis produced by a local grower, or by the dollars that you spend 
for gasoline derived from the crude oil purchased from Saddam Hussein?

Bill Smeathers, Freeport
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