Is it just me, or does it seem that all bodies of state and local government have done everything they could to thwart the will of the people since the initiative to legalize pot was passed? - - Andrew Smith Anchorage [end]
Most people take illegal drugs to get 'high' but some use them to improve their intelligence. Can 'smart drugs' really boost brainpower? For a brief period in the early 1990s, 'smart drugs' were the talk of the rave scene and in theory they made perfect sense. After all, the dumb drugs had been working fantastically well for several years: if people could be made happy with pills, who was to say they couldn't also be made clever? [continues 1741 words]
More than half of the seniors in the West Windsor-Plainsboro School District drank alcohol during a one-month period last spring, according to a survey of students in grades 7 to 12. A third of the seniors admitted getting drunk during that month, and more than a quarter of them admitted smoking pot. Four percent of the seventh-graders admitted they had "huffed" inhalants. The survey was sponsored by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Drug and Alcohol Alliance and administered by the Rocky Mountain Behavioral Science Institute. [continues 590 words]
Not only is the war expensive in terms of money but also how much damage its doing to the Constitution. The fourth amendment has been rendered null and void. Now it appears Orrin Hatch has the first in his sights with the anti meth bill (if you haven't heard about this one you should check it out). Prohibition was tried before it failed then and its failing now. The only solution is to end this war before we lose all our hard-earned freedoms. Andrew Smith, Providence, RI [end]
