SentLTE-Digest Sunday, October 31 2010 Volume 10 : Number 068
001 LTE: Re: Prop. 19
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: 'Tacoma Rally Sends Washington State Law Back to the Hot Seat'
From: John Chase <>
003 LTE: 'Keeping Medicinal Pot Illegal Is Dopey'
From: John Chase <>
004 LTE: 'Time for Florida to OK medical pot?'
From: John Chase <>
005 LTE: Re: 'Legalize marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: Prop. 19
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:13:08 -0700
To the Editor of The Daily Pilot:
It is unlikely that the people who do not smoke tobacco
or drink alcohol will start smoking marijuana when it is
legalized. So the new users will be people who now
use the only legal recreational drugs: alcohol and
tobacco.
Marijuana is a substitute for alcohol so
obviously, the alcohol industry doesn't want any legal
competition. Obviously, the alcohol industry opposes
Prop. 19 for economic reasons. Obviously, the alcohol
industry has a great deal of power and influence in
Washington, DC and in state legislatures. Obviously,
many politicians receive generous donations from the
alcohol industry and their lobbyists.
So marijuana legalization will have to come from the people--
not politicians.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
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Subj: 002 LTE: 'Tacoma Rally Sends Washington State Law Back to the Hot Seat'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:58:48 -0700
Editors, Federal Way Mirror -
Re:Tacoma Rally Sends Washington State Law Back to the Hot Seat, 21 October.
Patients are held hostage so prohibitionists can feel good.
This tragicomedy has no solution except to legalize. If you doubt it,
read Daniel Okrent's, 2010 book "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of
Prohibition". He refers to medicinal alcohol as "the alcohol that got
away". Drugstore owners became wealthy. Walgreen's, for instance, grew
from 20 drugstores to 525 in the 1920s, thanks only in part, to the
popularity of their milkshakes. When Prohibition ended, so did the
futility of trying to carve out a space in the anti-drug law for patients.
Doug Hiatt said it right: "The only way to keep patients safe is to keep
everybody safe."
John Chase
727 787 3085 day and night
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 003 LTE: 'Keeping Medicinal Pot Illegal Is Dopey'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:35:03 -0700
Editors, Daily Tar Heel -
Re: Column: "Keeping Medicinal Pot Illegal Is Dopey", 26 Oct
Worse than dopey. The federal government has been blocking unbiased
research to assess the merits of marijuana for decades. One such
instance, barely believable, is documented in the amicus curiae brief
filed in the 2007 Supreme Court case involving Angel Raich. It begins on
p.7 or 8 of http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/sourcefiles/mpprderamicus.pdf
Medicinal alcohol was the 1920s' equivalent of medical marijuana.
Daniel Okrent, in his 2010 book, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of
Prohibition", tells how George Remus, one of the early bootleggers, had
his men hold up his own medicinal alcohol deliveries to divert them to
his far more profitable bootlegging business.
Those are two examples of the unreality of a medical drug trying to
compete in an illegal market. If we are lucky, medical marijuana will go
the way of medicinal alcohol: made moot by ending prohibition.
John Chase
727 787 3085 day or night
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 004 LTE: 'Time for Florida to OK medical pot?'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:54:08 -0700
Editors, News-Press -
Re:"Time for Florida to OK medical pot?" October 28th
PUFMM deserves our support for pressing for a public policy that
separates patients from the drug war.
Bruce Grant is no help. His job as director of Florida's Office of Drug
Control, requires that he speak only official policy. That's how he can
say, with a straight face, "We have a rigid system for prescribing
medicines... and "Marijuana hasn't passed any of those tests."
The truth is that the federal government has for decades blocked
research on the merits of marijuana. One such instance is documented in
the amicus curiae brief filed by Dr. Rick Doblin, et al, in the 2005
Supreme Court case of Angel Raich. The brief speaks of "...the
government's obstruction of FDA-approved research into the potential
therapeutic uses of cannabis."
Every Floridian should sign PUFMM's initiative.
John Chase
727 787 3085 day and night
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Ref: http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/sourcefiles/mpprderamicus.pdf
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Subj: 005 LTE: Re: 'Legalize marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:14:04 -0700
To the Editor of The Salt Lake Tribune:
Thanks for publishing Larry James' thoughtful letter: "Legalize
Marijuana" (10-30-10). It seems to me that Prop. 19 in California
is about the right to choose. The right of adult citizens
to choose for themselves what goes into their own bodies, in the
privacy of their own homes, without the threat of the state government
arresting them for doing so.
If you are going to keep marijuana as a criminalized substance because
of its potential danger, then you should expect a long list of potentially
unhealthy foods also to be criminalized. For our own good, of course.
Perhaps our government should criminalize many potentially dangerous
activities such as skiing, skating and snowboarding--for our own good,
of course.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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