Pubdate: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Copyright: 2011 C.E.G.W./Times-Shamrock Contact: http://www.metrotimes.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1381 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n643/a07.html Author: Ralph Givens SCHUETTE'S STUPIDITY Re: "High stakes" (Nov. 2), the clear stupidity of people like state Attorney General Bill Schuette - in making a career of opposing marijuana - is seen when we examine a few facts. First off, contrary to any myths promoted by the drug warriors, cannabis is the least toxic drug known to mankind. There has never been a fatality attributed to marijuana in 5,000 years of recorded use. Claims that marijuana is "dangerous" are myths and propaganda coming from drug warriors worried about losing cushy jobs chasing potheads, who need no protection from cannabis. It is long past time to abandon reefer madness and to set marijuana free. Marijuana prohibition was founded on absurd fictions such as the notion that "[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania, probably to kill his brother." However, the drug crusaders cannot point to a single homicide caused by just smoking marijuana. State Attorney General Bill Schuette would do citizens a better service by abandoning his reefer madness campaign and focusing law enforcement on real crimes such as rape, child molesting, drunk driving, car theft, burglary, assault, murder and other crimes that really injure people. - -Ralph Givens, Daly City, Calif. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom