Pubdate: Sun, 24 Apr 2016
Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Copyright: 2016 Lance Lawson
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Author: Lance Lawson

THE REEFER MADNESS CROWD REALLY NEEDS TO TAKE A BREATH AND TRY AND
FIND SOME PERSPECTIVE.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, no one has ever ...
EVER ... died from a pot overdose. In 2014, meanwhile, 25,760
Americans died from prescription drug overdoses.

Alcohol is killing people at a rate not seen in 35 years, with 30,700
dying from alcohol. And that doesn't include those killed in
alcohol-related accidents or drunk driving. If it did, that total
would be two and a half times higher.

Now the anti-pot propagandists are pointing to increased ER visits by
pot users in places like Colorado as proof of a scourge. But doctors
involved have attributed that to people feeling they can visit an ER
without risk of prosecution.

The history of anti-marijuana activity is replete with falsehoods,
distortion and scandalous propaganda. It must be so, because the
argument can never be won using reality and reason.

Lance Lawson, Scottsdale  
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