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...letter, circulated by the drug policy reform organization Common Sense for Drug Policy, argues that McCaffrey has ignored studies showing the medical benefits of marijuana smoking and the success of needle exchange programs. It also charges that McCaffrey used faulty data in comparing U.S. and Dutch drug policies...
...Bush has owned up to a full partying schedule in his younger days. He also says he quit drinking 12 years ago and has been "loyal to my wife." But two weeks ago, a reporter for a New Hampshire TV station asked if he had ever used drugs: "Marijuana? Cocaine?" Though Bush again admitted that he once drank too much, he refused to discuss drugs. "I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child," he said, hiding behind an elastic definition of childhood. "What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes that...
...even some older, repeat offenders are getting punishments that seem ridiculously disproportionate to their crimes. Consider Douglas Gray, a husband, father, Vietnam veteran and owner of a roofing business who bought a pound of marijuana in an Alabama motel for $900 several years ago. The seller turned out to be a police informant, a felon fresh from prison whom cops paid $100 to do the deal. Because Gray had been arrested for several petty crimes 13 years earlier--crimes that didn't even carry a prison sentence--he fell under the state's "habitual offender" statutes. He got life without...
...have a friend that accidentally boughtsuper-grass--marijuana coated with PCP," she says,adding that her group uses its outreach to informstudents of these dangers...
...headlines last week in the Emporia Gazette were not about a President's disgrace; they were about the revered principal of a local grade school who had just resigned after being arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession. A public figure who everyone thought was doing a wonderful job was accused of doing something petty and dumb--and in so doing gave the town a chance to wonder about its standards and its sense of mercy...