OPINION: Prohibition Doesn't Make Sense

[Jim Finnel]

Alcohol kills more people each year than all illegal drugs combined. Prescription overdose deaths are now second only to motor-vehicle crashes as a cause of death from unintentional injury. Television is filled with sophisticated pro-drug messages paid for by alcohol and pharmaceutical companies.

The Bush administration doesn't have a problem with corporate drug pushers, but hoist a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner at an off-campus high school rally in Alaska, and they will fight you all the way to the Supreme Court.

It is not clear how this nonsensical phrase somehow merits limiting free speech. Culture warriors in the White House seem to think the war on pot is more important than the Constitution. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. By raiding voter-approved medical marijuana providers in Oregon, the very same Bush administration that claims illicit drug use funds terrorism is forcing cancer and AIDS patients into the hands of street dealers.

Apparently marijuana prohibition is more important than protecting the country from terrorism too.



News Hawk- User 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: StatesmanJournal.com
Author: Robert Sharpe
Contact: StatesmanJournal.com - The News Source for Salem, Oregon
Copyright: 2007 StatesmanJournal.com
Website: Opinion - StatesmanJournal.com

 

[ShadyLady]

where has the freedom of speech, basic human right's gone?

Both American and English government's are becoming "nanny state's", telling every single person what they can and cannot do!
TO BOTH GOVERNMENT'S,
I WANT TO SAY FROM SHADYLADY TO YOU... WIND YOUR NECK'S IN BEFORE YOU START SOME KINDA REVOLUTION!!!
LOVE AND KISSES
SHADYLADY!!!

 

[Jim Finnel]

WIND YOUR NECK'S IN BEFORE YOU START SOME KINDA REVOLUTION!!!

if only it would come