Pubdate: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 Source: Mountaineer, The (Waynesville, NC) Copyright: 2008 The Mountaineer Publishing Company Contact: http://www.themountaineer.com/writeed.html Website: http://www.themountaineer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4077 Author: Ralph Givens Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n696/a04.html DRUG WOES STEM FROM LUNATIC CRUSADE AGAINST DRUGS To the editor: In response to the article titled "Beyond Ecstasy - and scary," law enforcement officers are spreading scare stories about a new super Ecstasy (#64 DOC). Before believing anything these drug prohibitionists say, we should remember the absurd racist fictions they used to outlaw marijuana - "Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice." (Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1934) "There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. "This marijuana can cause white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others." "The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races." "Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality and death." "Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind." "[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania, probably to kill his brother." (see US Government Propaganda To Outlaw Marijuana www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t3.htm). Did anyone notice the statement by the detective who now says that marijuana's biggest risk is "laying back and getting the munchies?" Needless to say this dizzy narc arrests every harmless pot smoker he can lay hands on and gets them in as much trouble as possible. Now they expect us to swallow more nonsense about a new drug "threat." It's worth remembering that since the drug warriors began, drugs have become cheaper, purer and more widely available than ever. It's time to get past the lies, dissembling and propaganda and realize that 99 percent of our so-called "drug problems" are the result of a lunatic drug crusade. Ralph Givens Daly City, Calif. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin