SentLTE-Digest Saturday, November 20 2010 Volume 10 : Number 072
001 LTE: Re: 'Pot measure's OK hard to believe'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: US MA: Editorial: Safety Goes Up in Smoke
From: Allan Erickson <>
003 LTE: Re: 'SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE'
From: Kirk Muse <>
004 LTE: Re: 'SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE'
From: Kirk Muse <>
005 LTE: US MA: OPED: Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate
From: Allan Erickson <>
006 LTE: Re: 'Who killed Prop. 19?
From: Kirk Muse <>
007 LTE: Re: 'A SURE WAY TO STOP DRUG CARTEL MURDERS'
From: Kirk Muse <>
008 LTE: 'ATTORNEYS: MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY 'NOT A CRACK HOUSE''
From: John Chase <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: 'Pot measure's OK hard to believe'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:27:00 -0800
To the Editor of The Arizona Republic:
I'm writing about the not-so-thoughtful letter from J. Klein:
"Pot measure's OK hard to believe" (11-16-10).
I find it hard to believe that youth are celebrating the passage of
Prop. 203. Young people have no problem buying marijuana.
Almost any high school or middle school student knows where to
but it. It's older people like myself who have a hard time obtaining
it because the young people who sell it suspect we might be undercover
Narcotics Officers.
An orthopedic surgeon has told me that I am a prime candidate for hip
replacement surgery. I'd rather keep my original hips for as long as
possible and the herbs Cannabis and Turmeric help me do this.
I'd like to add that if J. Klein is opposed to the use of cannabis, he or
she should not use it. But don't try to dictate to me what natural herbs I
can use in the privacy of my own home.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 002 LTE: US MA: Editorial: Safety Goes Up in Smoke
From: Allan Erickson <>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:26:24 -0800
US MA: Editorial: Safety Goes Up in Smoke
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n940/a05.html?397
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http://morningdonut.blogspot.com/
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To the editor-
I just finished reading your editorial, Safety Goes Up in Smoke. For a=20
minute I thought I'd lost track of time and today was April 1st. Surely=20
you see that virtually ALL drug violence is Prohibition related?
Instead of blaming the voters, Herald editors should rightly focus on
the fraudulent federal prohibition of cannabis. What (other than
violence and legislative chaos) can we expect from policies founded on=20
racist lies and xenophobic fear mongering? The point is made even
sharper when you consider the racial disparities we have today in the
criminal justice system because of our falsely founded drug laws.
Further... there is a big question concerning the law enforcement
claims in your earlier article (and cited in your editorial), New Pot
Law Blamed As Violence Escalates. "[District Attorney Gerard T.]
Leone=92s caseload rose from 445 in 2008 to 464 in 2009. This year=92s=20
caseload stood at 422 as of last week, on track to match or exceed last=20
year.=94 An increase of .5% is a crime wave? Really?
Leone states also that an ounce of cannabis can produce 1,000 joints.
Really? I get 25 or 30. And which side is it again guilty of hubris and=20
hyperbole?
After 2 years of pseudo-decriminalization in Massachusetts you whine?
After nearly a century of banning cannabis it's now our nation's number=20
one cash crop. Is that the model of success you wish to continue
following?
Allan Erickson
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Subj: 003 LTE: Re: 'SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:37:25 -0800
To the Editor of The Boston Globe:
Regarding your editorial: "SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE" (11-16-10), there is no
pot related violence, only prohibition caused violence.
How much violent crime do we have related to the drugs aspirin and Tylenol?
None. Why? Because they are legal.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Feel free to edit.
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Subj: 004 LTE: Re: 'SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:06:35 -0800
To the Editor of The Boston Herald:
Regarding your editorial: "SAFETY GOES UP IN SMOKE" (11-16-10), there is no
pot related violence, only prohibition caused violence.
How much violent crime do we have related to the drugs aspirin and Tylenol?
None. Why? Because they are legal.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Feel free to edit.
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Subj: 005 LTE: US MA: OPED: Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate
From: Allan Erickson <>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:36:06 -0800
US MA: OPED: Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n941/a08.html?397
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http://morningdonut.blogspot.com/
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To the editor-
Allison Margolin writes a mean opinion piece (Prop. 19 Failure Means
Advocates Have Clean Slate, Thur, Nov 18). For a lawyer...
I'm a blue collar Oregonian and maybe it's just that I work outside in
the rain a lot but I just have to ask Margolin why, in a piece
discussing California's Prop. 19, did she have to move from cannabis to
cocaine and heroin? While it may be true there was some benevolent
motive behind the banning of cocaine and heroin there most certainly
were never any such philanthropic aspects to the banning of cannabis.
In fact the irrationality of prohibiting a plant with such a proud
place in our nation's history boggles my mind (I've learned to avoid
thinking about the drug war while on 30' ladders). Now I understand
Harvard is in the top 100 colleges in the country so surely one of you
young students of law can explain to my laborer's brain where there is
any validity to Cannabis Prohibition. C'mon... I'm waiting...
Unless you're of a segregationist state of mind or a lover of
"Bureaucracies Gone Wild!" type reality TV shows, no one can defend the
making of pot illegal. It is safer than aspirin and all evidence tells
us there is no possibility of - as well as no record of there having
ever been - a cannabis overdose.
By the same token that Rosa Parks should never have moved to the front
of the bus, middle age, middle class cannabis consumers like myself
should accept that ALL cannabis policies - and yes... those policies
may be based on racist lies and a campaign of xenophobic yellow
journalism - should just put down our pies and doobies because that's
the law. I mean after all...
Bad laws make bad policy. Racist laws make terrible policy. The banning
of cannabis was an intentional act of legislated racism which has led
us to become a nation that imprisons young black males at a rate 7
times greater per capita than did South Africa during apartheid.
I mean it seems to me that just like Rosa Parks, someone needs to get
up and go sit at the front of the drug war bus and light up a phat one.
Allan Erickson
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Subj: 006 LTE: Re: 'Who killed Prop. 19?
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:14:39 -0800
To the Editor of The Boulder Weekly:
I'm writing about the thoughtful column by Paul Danish: "Who killed
Prop. 19" (11-18-10).
Probably parents and grandparents who mistakenly think that there is a
gateway between
cannabis use and hard drugs. There is not. The possible gateway is
cause by cannabis
prohibition.
Have the readers ever been offered a free bottle of whiskey, rum or
vodka when legally
buying beer or wine? Probably not.
Have their adult children ever been offered a free sample of meth or
cocaine when illegally
buying cannabis? Probably yes.
In a regulated and controlled market this would not happen.
Re-legalize cannabis and we close the gateway.
For the sake of your children and grandchildren--re-legalize cannabis.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 007 LTE: Re: 'A SURE WAY TO STOP DRUG CARTEL MURDERS'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:27:24 -0800
To the Editor of The Wall Street Journal:
Re: "A SURE WAY TO STOP DRUG CARTEL MURDERS" by Stan White (11-19-10).
How many murders do Mexico and the U. S. have related to the drugs
aspirin and Tylenol?
None.
If we were to criminalize either of these drugs and turn over
distribution and control to
violent gangs, the situation would soon change.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 008 LTE: 'ATTORNEYS: MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY 'NOT A CRACK HOUSE''
From: John Chase <>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:42:50 -0800
Editors, The Daily Tribune -
Re: "ATTORNEYS: MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY 'NOT A CRACK HOUSE'"
At first I was skeptical that Michigan's medical marijuana initiative
would get patients out of the drug war. Then I took heart when I saw
local governments working in good faith to reduce the initiative to
practice.
But now I'm back where I started. This example is typical of other
states trying to make medical marijuana work. Police tend to go after
people they don't like, and the bureaucratic arcana of medical marijuana
regulation can be interpreted to mean almost anything.
The solution is to put marijuana on the same legal footing as liquor.
John Chase
72 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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