Pubdate: Thu, 14 Jun 2007
Source: Anchorage Press (AK)
Copyright: 2007 Anchorage Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.anchoragepress.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3078
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n691/a04.html
Author:  Stephen Heath

THE DRUG WAR: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

The officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration are likely the
highest paid cops in the free world and they've been gravy-training
off American taxpayers for almost 40 years now. What do we get in
return for our dough?

"Law enforcement officers have long suspected that Alaska is both an
exporter and an importer of marijuana."

No way! The DEA is telling us that Alaskans both use marijuana, grow
it and redistribute it for big bucks?

Just think - if the faux police officers of the U.S. DEA can get the
needed funding, soon we may learn that (gasp!) Americans most
everywhere are using pot, growing pot and selling it, often for big
bucks.

Once they've narrowed down the source of marijuana to pretty much
everywhere in North America (and oh yeah, pretty much everywhere
outside North America), they will be better able to go to our Congress
and declare, "We know where they are. Just give us more money and
we'll go out and continue doing absolutely nothing to slow the
multi-billion dollar a year market for marijuana."

And the Drug War beat goes on....

STEPHEN HEATH

Clearwater, Florida

[Anchorage Press Editor's Note]

Mr. Heath is a Media Activism Facilitator for the Media Awareness 
Project, a group that works to promote the image of marijuana in the 
media. We're not sure what a "Media Activism Facilitator" does but we 
suspect it involves writing lots of letters to the editor.

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MAP posted-by: Steve Heath