Pubdate: Wed, 16 Jul 2014
Source: Arizona Daily Wildcat (AZ Edu)
Copyright: 2014 Kirk Muse
Contact:  http://wildcat.arizona.edu/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/725
Author: Kirk Muse
Note: Title by newshawk
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n561/a08.html

WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED

 From "UA marijuana researcher fired unexpectedly" (by Hannah Plotkin,
July 1)

We should not be surprised. Our state and federal politicians are
willing to throw our U.S. military veterans under the bus so we can
continue our war on certain politically selected drugs.

The DEA, the Drug Czar's office and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse and its employees are all prevented by law to investigate or
research any of the benefits of cannabis consumption.

The above institution[s] are all huge bureaucracies and the goal of
every bureaucracy is its continuation and expansion.

The re-legalization of cannabis would result in huge budget cuts for
all these agencies. Marijuana prohibition is the foundation of our
drug war.

Kirk Muse,

Mesa, AZ 
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