Pubdate: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 Source: Arkansas Times (Little Rock, AR) Copyright: 2009 Arkansas Times Inc. Contact: http://www.arktimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/583 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1128/a02.html Author: Howard Wooldridge MEDICAL MARIJUANA Missing from the balanced report of Doug Smith on medical marijuana was the sad fact that every hour my profession spends chasing and arresting the non-problem causing marijuana user, the less time we have for the deadly DUI and those who hurt our children and women. When detectives fly around in helicopters looking for a pot garden, they are not arresting a rapist or child molester. When road officers are searching car after car for a baggie of pot, the deadly DUIs sail on by and kill innocents. Marijuana prohibition reduces public safety period. Detective/Officer Howard Wooldridge (ret) Dallas - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake