Pubdate: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 Source: Washington Post (DC) Page: A16 Copyright: 2007 The Washington Post Company Contact: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/491 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1304/a06.html Author: Richard F. Kennedy A MORE DANGEROUS DRUG The Post's news story about the ban on farmers growing hemp -- a useful product that has no psychoactive properties -- illustrates how irrational U.S. drug policy has become ["Farmers Ask Federal Court to Dissociate Hemp and Pot," Nov. 12]. But I was also struck by the fact that the same section of The Post had more than two full pages of ads for alcohol -- a drug far more dangerous than marijuana. For example, in March the Lancet, the British medical journal, ranked alcohol as the fifth most dangerous recreational drug out of 20 cited, while marijuana was ranked only 11th (and tobacco, incidentally, ranked ninth). Richard F. Kennedy Lorton - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake