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Thursday, July 11, 2002
The DEA doesn't agree with Britain's decision to lighten up on marijuana laws. They say it sends out the wrong message, the right message being that all drugs are bad (except alcohol and tobacco). The DEA believes this message so strongly that they've even banned using hemp seed oil in the making of tortilla chips.
Britain says it wants to use its resources to fight more dangerous drugs like crack and heroin. DEA says that saying marijuana is okay is going to make kids think it's okay to try more serious drugs.
The thing is, next to alcohol and tobacco, marijuana is the drug that kids are going to be the most likely to try. When they spend years hearing warnings about the evils and dangers of pot, likening it to heroin and cocaine, and then they try it and find that it's more benign than alcohol, I'm afraid they are liable to think, "Well maybe those other drugs aren't such a big deal after all" and be more inclined to try them.
Why not just be straight with them, and set strict limits with marijuana the way they do alcohol? You can fight and die for your country at age 18, but you can't buy a beer until you're 21. Why not be honest with kids about marijuana, and have a sensible drug policy? Kids don't need to be "sent messages", they need to be told the facts.
Kids are alive to hypocrisy, and our society will someday pay for it. Being honest about marijuana won't put an end to hypocrisy, but it would be a start. If we could just lighten up about it enough to let manufacturers make use out of the would-be cash crop hemp for things like frying tortilla chips, it could be enough to bring back the American Farm. During WW2 the government decided that producing textiles for the war effort was more important than worrying about "sending the wrong message to kids" and they lifted the ban on hemp production. The US government even produced a propoganda video called "Hemp for Victory" to encourage farmers to grow it. Today, we pay our farmers billions of dollars not to grow food, and we spend many millions more trying to eradicate hemp that grows naturally. Where's the sense in it, if you're only doing it to put across a message that isn't even true in the first place?
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Tuesday, July 09, 2002
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Sunday, July 07, 2002
US Citizenship Test - Could you pass?
Take this short quiz and see how you'd do if you had to pass a test to become an American Citizen.
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I don't usually go for this stuff, but here goes...
Which Willy Wonka character are you?
made by Galaxy Bounce
This made me feel better, as it lies in sharp contrast to the latest letter in the mail bag. I don't know how to take knowing that someone considers me "the masterminds behind corruption". I didn't realize it was me, I thought it was The Carlyle Group and a bunch of other Corporate Idiots.
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