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To: Richard Babusek who wrote (2819)	5/12/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13056

Well, if there were more reason to believe that once one opens Pandora's box one can put everything back in order and shut it again, I would be less antagonistic to calls to legalize any and all vice...

To: Richard Babusek who wrote (2819)	5/14/1999 8:28:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

NTSB: Bus driver in fatal crash tested positive for pot May 13, 1999 Web posted at: 7:12 p.m. EDT (2312 GMT) NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- The driver of a tour bus that crashed on Mothers Day, killing 22 people headed for a gambling casino outing in Mississippi, tested positive for marijuana in his blood and urine, federal investigators said Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board said the driver, Frank Bedell, 46, was fired from a previous job for drug use. Bedell, who suffered from diabetes and heart disease, was seriously injured in the crash. Bedell had been turned down for a job with Greyhound in April 1997 after testing positive for cocaine, but was hired by Custom Bus Charters later that year and passed a pre-employment drug test and subsequent random tests later on, the NTSB said earlier this week. Asked how recently Bedell had been smoking marijuana, an NTSB spokesman said "fairly recent. We think it's safe to say within 24 hours." The spokesman said Bedell also had been treated at a hospital the night before the accident for dehydration and low blood pressure. The bus was chartered by a nursing home in La Place, Louisiana, and most of the victims were elderly. The vehicle veered across three lanes of Interstate 610 in New Orleans on Sunday, crashing through a fence and into a concrete wall. The front end of the bus was crushed. It was the worst traffic accident in the city's history.