Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm END PROHIBITION, CALIFORNIA Re “Legalizing is a dangerous choice” (Insight, Aug. 22): San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer claims that after marijuana is legalized, drug cartels will continue to profit from selling it. That’s ridiculous. As a former police chief myself (Seattle, 1994-2000), I’d respectfully […]
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Letter Of The Week – Legalizing Drugs Could Diminish Dangers
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK LEGALIZING DRUGS COULD DIMINISH DANGERS Norm Jackson evidently feels strongly the most effective way to minimize the harm caused by drugs is to prohibit them by law (“Legalizing marijuana makes no sense,” June 16). Didn’t we try that with alcohol, only […]
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Letter Of The Week – Harper Wants More Criminals
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK HARPER WANTS MORE CRIMINALS RE: “Call for prisons clashes with crime stats”, Dave Breakenridge, Aug. 9. By now, it should be apparent that what the Harperites are doing is trying to manufacture inmates. They want to impose a U.S.-style, for-profit prison […]
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Letter Of The Week – Almost Right About Drugs
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm ALMOST RIGHT ABOUT DRUGS Re: “Mexico’s Sounds of Silence – No news is bad news when media self-censors,” Thursday Editorials. The Dallas Morning News almost got it right. The ghastly violence in Mexico is not about drugs. It’s about money, and we can stop it. […]
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Web: Letter Of The Week – Face the Facts on Marijuana
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK FACE THE FACTS ON MARIJUANA As a representative of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the primary organization working to reduce the negative impact that both drug abuse and drug policies have on young people and students, I couldn’t disagree more with […]
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Web: Letter Of The Week – End War on Marijuana
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK END WAR ON MARIJUANA Albert Einstein (1879-1955) famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Nothing better describes the war on drugs. The 40-year war on drugs has cost U.S. taxpayers $1 trillion, […]
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Web: Letter Of The Week – Nonstoners Want Legalization Too
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK NONSTONERS WANT LEGALIZATION TOO So Louis R. “Skip” Miller (Opinion, July 12) thinks that the only people who support legalizing marijuana are those who want to get stoned. Sorry, but he’s wrong. I don’t smoke pot, but I’ll vote to legalize […]
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Web: Letter Of The Week – Prohibition of Drugs Sows Violence
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm LETTER OF THE WEEK PROHIBITION OF DRUGS SOWS VIOLENCE The story about the havoc wrought by Craig Petties (June 27 and July 4 special report, “Blood trade”) was tragic, but it could have been avoided. Violence is the predictable and tragic consequence of drug prohibition. […]
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Web: New Jim Crow: War on Drugs Provides Excuse
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm Pubdate: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 Source: DrugSense Blog LETTER OF THE WEEK NEW JIM CROW: WAR ON DRUGS PROVIDES EXCUSE The News should be praised for publishing Leonard Pitts’ article about Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow” (“‘New Jim Crow’ surfaces in U.S. justice,” […]