Pot times July 17, 2005
Don't Swallow Drug Legalizers' Lies
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Webpage: http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/projo_20050717_17joy.1d62154.html
Pubdate: Sun, 17 Jul 2005
Source: Providence Journal, The (RI)
Copyright: 2005 The Providence Journal Company
Contact: letters@projo.com
Website: http://www.projo.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/352
Author: Joyce Nalepka
Note: Joyce Nalepka is president of Drug-Free Kids: America. During
the Reagan administration, she headed Nancy Reagan's National
Federation of Parents.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
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DON'T SWALLOW DRUG LEGALIZERS' LIES
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- I REMEMBER when illegal-drug horror stories, such as
those that follow, were unheard of, or reported only in scandal-sheet papers at
the checkout counter. Today, they're on the front page of our hometown
newspapers.
I think much of the blame belongs to uninformed or paid-off legislators, who
have allowed public opinion to be twisted into forgetting what really happens
when we let our guard down and don't teach disdain for illicit-drug use.
Rhode Island legislators have joined legislators in 10 other states in voting to
let self-absorbed admitted drug-using adults buy public policy and promote
"medicalization" of pot, instead of letting the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration first prove it safe and effective. Doesn't anyone
remember thalidomide?
