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...ought to take a page from the book of countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal (and a puff or two wouldn't hurt either) and decriminalize marijuana. Our local, state and federal authorities need to focus more time and money on the real criminals, not on busting a guy for possessing a tiny amount of "happy smoke." TODD SHIKORA Pittsburgh...
Your article about Europeans' legalizing or decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana does a terrible injustice to the thousands of American parents who are waging a small war with their children about drug use and abuse. Marijuana is a gateway drug that leads to the abuse of other drugs. I should know, since all four of my children started using marijuana and have progressed over the years to more powerful drugs. NAME WITHHELD ON REQUEST Volant...
...were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India's western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning...
...ensured we were soon installed as guests of honor at the competition. Seven teams from across the mountains would try to best each other on what was probably the world's highest and most dysfunctional cricket pitch. In the center of one terrace was a clay wicket. The marijuana meadow formed one boundary. The terraces below were another: fielders stationed there couldn't see the play and had to be alerted by spectators if the ball was coming their way. As the only male in our party, I was given a pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon tied...
...kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could cut his fee, a common ruse. Choosing a boss is a delicate business, he says: "But sometimes we just take the front money and disappear...