Pubdate: Sat, 05 Jan 2008
Source: Wall Street Journal (US)
Page: A7
Copyright: 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.wsj.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/487
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1513/a05.html
Author: Laurie Williamson

POT LONG AGO NO BLOT, WHERE IS CHARACTER NOW?

Media-created kerfuffles regarding adolescent marijuana use by 
candidates strikes me as superficial and hypocritical ("Drug Use and 
the Candidates," by Stanton Peele, op-ed Dec. 31). Who cares? Let's 
have information that matters: Has the candidate used illegal drugs 
in adulthood? Few candidates now were teenagers in the '50s. Any 
adolescent from the '60s on is possibly part of the large number of 
kids who experimented with drugs -- as are the sanctimonious 
reporters baying for a pro-forma "apology." Journalists could instead 
ask a question of far more relevance to an office-seeker's character, 
and according to polls, more widespread than marijuana smoking. Did 
he or she cheat in school?

Laurie Williamson

Weddington, N.C. 
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