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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Dale Baker12/25/2006 1:39:46 PM
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5579) 12/25/2006 9:32:33 AM
From: 4:20 Rebel of 5600

Merry Christmas

I just ran into some information you asked me for:

From a web site highlighting the distortions from the drug war:

Distortion 1: Drug Use Post-Prohibition

Distortion 1: If drugs were legalized there would be an explosion of drug use.

Incorrect. The available research, as affirmed by a recent Federal analysis of drug policy, indicates there would be little if any increase in use.

From 1972 to 1978, eleven states decriminalized marijuana possession (covering one-third of the US population) and 33 other states reduced punishment to probation with record erased after six months to one year. Yet, after 1978 marijuana use steadily declined for over a decade. Decriminalization did not increase marijuana use.

[National Research Council, "Informing America’s Policy On Illegal Drugs: What We Don’t Know Keeps Hurting Us" (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001), pp. 192-193.]

And now .. the rest of the story:

drugwardistortions.org

Notice the list of government induced distortions on the left side of the page. You have been lied to by your own government.

78 percent of people polled by AARP favored medical marijuana being available. The only way it stays against the law is by way of these lies.

The truth should be known.
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