SentLTE-Digest Thursday, December 2 2010 Volume 10 : Number 075
001 LTE: Re: 'Time to legalize marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana, but no 'happy meals'
From: Kirk Muse <>
003 LTE: 'Florida-Based Advocate Presses Case Across U.S.'
From: John Chase <>
004 LTE: Re: 'Agents seize approximately 215 pounds of,marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
005 LTE: 'US embassy cables: Mexico is losing drug war, says US'
From: John Chase <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: 'Time to legalize marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:19:54 -0800
To the Editor of The East Valley Tribune:
I'm writing about Stan White's thoughtful letter: "Time to legalize
marijuana"
(11-26-10). I'd like to add that he should have said it's time to
re-legalize
marijuana because for the vast majority of our nation's history,
marijuana was completely legal.
And contrary to the lies and propaganda of those with a vested financial
interest in criminalizing it, we had almost no problems with the users or
sellers of this very safe natural herb.
For those who oppose its use--don't buy it and don't use it. Period.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 002 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana, but no 'happy meals'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:30:04 -0800
To the Editor of The Flathead Beacon:
I'm writing about Wilma Beck's letter: "Marijuana, but no
"happy meals" (11-27-10). If our government can criminalize
a natural herb that has never killed anybody in the 5,000
year history of its use, it can criminalize any food.
What could be more pro nanny-state than marijuana prohibition?
Beyond the fact that marijuana prohibition is counterproductive
and a complete waste of money, what about the right of adult
citizens to be left alone--especially in the privacy of our
own homes.
We don't punish those who attempt suicide and survive. So why
do we punish those who consume the wrong (politically selected)
recreational drugs?
I don't want my government attempting to protect me from myself.
I want my government to protect me from those who want to harm
me against my will.
Today, our nanny-state government tells us which recreational drugs
we may or may not consume. (Note that Viagra is OK, but marijuana
is not). Note that nicotine is OK, but marijuana is not.
If Beck is opposed to the use of marijuana, medical or otherwise,
don't buy it and don't use it. Period.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 003 LTE: 'Florida-Based Advocate Presses Case Across U.S.'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:20:27 -0800
Sent at http://www.heraldtribune.com/sendletter
Editors -
Re: Florida-Based Advocate Presses Case Across U.S., 30 November 2010
This article may surprise a public conditioned to believe that marijuana
has no medical benefits. It does, and it is not risk-free. But its
greater danger is not in the drug, but in the official dishonesty that
prohibition has on respect for government. The federal government
refuses to "reschedule" marijuana because, they say, medical science
has not found it to have benefits. But, for decades, the government has
blocked all research unless designed to examine only the risks. One
example is an amicus curiae brief filed with the U. S. Supreme Court in
support of Angel Raich in the 2007 case, Gonzales v. Raich.* I read it
and was shocked at the childish behavior of some officials at DEA and
NIDA(National Institute for Drug Abuse). They, and their superiors, are
the reason that most Americans know so little about marijuana as medicine.
* http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/sourcefiles/mpprderamicus.pdf
John Chase
Palm Harbor, FL
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Subj: 004 LTE: Re: 'Agents seize approximately 215 pounds of,marijuana'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:27:20 -0800
To the Editor of The Yuma Sun:
I'm writing about John Gilbert's story: "Agents seize approximately 215
pounds of
marijuana" (11-30-10).
Congratulations to the Border Patrol for doing their part in making
marijuana the number
one cash crop in America.
Without operations like this, marijuana would be worth what other
easy-to-grow weeds are worth--very little.
Thanks to the Drug Enforcement Administration and other so-called
"drug warriors," the easy-to-grow weed is worth almost as much as
pure gold--and completely tax free.
Any marijuana growers, sellers or traffickers arrested will soon be
replaced. They always are.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 005 LTE: 'US embassy cables: Mexico is losing drug war, says US'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:43:57 -0800
Editors, the Guardian -
Re: "US embassy cables: Mexico is losing drug war, says US", December 2nd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/246329
It didn't take Wikileaks; anyone who pays attention to the news knows.
Common sense has been highjacked by delusional leaders. Sr. Calderon
could be forgiven, but not U.S. leaders. They should know of America's
"noble experiment" of National Prohibition (1920-1933). Lacking that,
just understand the rather simple law of supply and demand. The lesson
of the 1920s was that driving a popular drug underground increases its
price and attracts more reckless, violent men to the illegal trade. It
causes more societal damage than it prevents, and the harder it is
driven the more the damage. In the 1920s it was alcohol, but the lesson
fits other drugs as well.
The longer today's delusion persists, the greater the chance that Sr.
Calderon's government will reach an accommodation with the strongest
cartel. If that happens the other cartels will disappear, the violence
will abate. The TV cameras will go home, and we Americans will have a
failed state, a narco-state, on our southern border. It would become
the new normal.
John Chase
727 787 3085
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
U.S.A.
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