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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (64028)5/24/2002 10:07:55 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 70976
 
OT: I think we're already seeing that. Not officially, but de facto. The FBI has been redirected to antiterrorism, and that means less attention is paid to everything else. "Everything else" includes a lot of anti-drug operations. In many police forces, little effort is put into enforcing anti-marijuana laws. As a physician, I've seen many, many lives, careers, and families destroyed by alcohol and cocaine, but none by marijuana. This affects what I talk to patients about. The medical community is certainly focused on the real mass killers: tobacco, alcohol, cocaine.



To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (64028)5/25/2002 1:46:26 AM
From: Pete Young  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
Also keep in mind, Cary, that the folks in power are playing a CYA game. People are starting to notice that they've dropped the ball on a number of things (trade, personal liberties, the economy, and oh, security...). So, now they are shouting "look, look, in the sky..." hoping to draw attention away from their many shortcomings.


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