Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm Pubdate: Fri, 3 Jul 2010 Source: DrugSense Blog LETTER OF THE WEEK LOST WAR ON DRUGS AND ITS CASUALTIES When you lie down with dogs, often you will get up with fleas. Yet another in my profession (Megan Mattingly) has been tainted by the enforcement […]

Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm Pubdate: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 LETTER OF THE WEEK LEGALIZE DRUGS, ELIMINATE DEALER John Monte (letter, June 16) claims that he can’t get an answer to his question of what is the treatment for a drug dealer. I have an answer: legalization. If drugs were […]

Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm Pubdate: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 Source: DrugSense Blog Website: http://drugsense.org/blog/ LETTER OF THE WEEK MARIJUANA DEBATE SHOULD PROCEED I hope Mayor John Cook realizes that the debate for marijuana legalization needs to happen. After vetoing a unanimously approved resolution calling for such a debate last […]

LETTER OF THE WEEK D.A.R.E.  PROGRAM I am writing in response to your article about the “Council unveils cuts to budget” on the June 2 front page.  I feel like you are misrepresenting the facts about Emily Naeole-Beason’s budget cut request.  The D.A.R.E.  program is not an educational program.  It […]

D.A.R.E. PROGRAM I am writing in response to your article about the “Council unveils cuts to budget” on the June 2 front page. I feel like you are misrepresenting the facts about Emily Naeole-Beason’s budget cut request. The D.A.R.E. program is not an educational program. It is a propaganda program […]

LETTER OF THE WEEK ALLOW POT FOR PTSD The Veterans Affairs Department recently adopted a policy prohibiting its physicians from recommending medical marijuana to their patients. Overwhelming scientific evidence has already proved marijuana’s safety and efficacy for treating conditions like chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that afflicts […]

LETTER OF THE WEEK STEP CLOSE TO SUBJUGATION I am appalled at the decision to extradite Marc Emery on May 10 for clearly political reasons, despite the move directly violating Canada’s extradition treaty with the United States which states that no citizen may be extradited for a political crime. On […]

LETTER OF THE WEEK WAR ON DRUGS DEADLY Re: Just another casualty in the criminal war on drugs, May 12. I appreciate that there are some who will actually write articles like Dan Gardner’s column stating the sad truth.  The war on drugs is offensively expensive, deadly, and extremely misdirected. […]

LETTER OF THE WEEK VOTE AGAINST DEA CHIEF An Open Letter to Our U.S.  Senators: Prospective Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele Leonhart opposes medical marijuana and works to prevent Veterans Administration doctors from recommending it.  Why should veterans who rely on the VA for health care be denied remedies available […]