SentLTE-Digest Saturday, December 25 2010 Volume 10 : Number 081
001 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana: worse than tobacco'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: 'SURVEY FINDS INCREASE IN TEEN DRUG USE'
From: John Chase <>
003 LTE: Re: 'We love pot; you should too'
From: Kirk Muse <>
004 LTE: Re: 'A dismally failing war on drugs'
From: Kirk Muse <>
005 LTE: Re: 'Deploy compassion in new drug war'
From: Kirk Muse <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: 'Marijuana: worse than tobacco'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:10:58 -0800
To the Editor of The Florida Times-Union:
Re: "Marijuana: worse than tobacco" (12-21-10).
Marijuana contains no nicotine, the main cancer and heart disease
causing ingredient
of tobacco. So how is marijuana worse than tobacco?
A heavy tobacco user will consume forty or more cigarettes a day. A
heavy marijuana
user will consume perhaps three marijuana joints a day.
Speaking of tobacco, we have reduced consumption by about half without a
single
person being arrested for its use. Instead we used truthful education.
The key word
is truthful.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 002 LTE: 'SURVEY FINDS INCREASE IN TEEN DRUG USE'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:44:52 -0800
Letter to the Sun Telegraph (NE)
Re: SURVEY FINDS INCREASE IN TEEN DRUG USE
http://www.suntelegraph.com/cms/news/story-206498.html
If we examine these very same data from a distance, we find an
optimistic message about teen drug use.
Over the past 10 years, the major legal drugs(alcohol and cigarettes)
have declined sharply, while the major illegal drug(marijuana) has
barely changed. This holds for all 3 grades; 8th, 10th and 12th. How can
this be? After all, we try harder against illegal drugs than legal
drugs. We even arrest and prosecute purveyors of illegal drugs, while
rewarding brewers, distillers and tobacco growers with careers and
dividends. It makes sense only if we recall teen drinking in the 1920s,
during Prohibition. The glitz and excitement of illegality was -- and is
- -- the reason. We must make marijuana boring by legalizing it, as we did
for alcohol when we ended National Prohibition.
Reference Table 3 of
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/10data.html#2010data-drugs
John Chase
Palm Harbor
Florida
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Subj: 003 LTE: Re: 'We love pot; you should too'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:23:28 -0800
To the Editor of The Free Times:
Thanks for publishing the outstanding letter from the Directors
of Columbia NORML: "We love pot; you should too" (12-22-10).
I'd like to add that I've been buying beer and wine for more than 30 years.
Yet, I've never been offered a free sample of whiskey, gin, vodka or
any other hard liquor.
However, when I was a marijuana user, which is more than 15 years ago,
I was frequently offered free samples of much more dangerous drugs
like cocaine and meth by my marijuana suppliers. (Back then, meth
was called speed).
If we regulate, control and tax the sale and production of marijuana
and sell it in licensed business establishments like we do with
tobacco products, we will close the gateway from marijuana to hard drugs.
Speaking of taxes, it seems to me that non-marijuana users would be
very much in favor of taxing a product that they don't use. Around
these parts, taxing someone else's vice is very popular.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85208
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 004 LTE: Re: 'A dismally failing war on drugs'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:28:02 -0800
To the Editor of The Journal-Inquirer:
Re: "A dismally failing war on drugs by Joseph H. Brooks (12-22-10).
Killing or arresting the heads of drug cartels has an effect similar to
cutting off the top of a weed. It will grow back stronger than ever.
The only way to get rid of any weed is to kill the root -- and the root
of our drug problem is prohibition.
Law enforcement didn't get rid of the alcohol cartels in 1933;
re-legalizing alcohol did.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 005 LTE: Re: 'Deploy compassion in new drug war'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:38:31 -0800
To the Editor of The Bangkok Post:
Re: "Deploy compassion in new drug war" (26 Dec 10).
Imagine if you could eliminate all of your nation's heroin dealers--
Switzerland did. Imagine if you could reduce the number of
heroin addicts by eighty-two percent--Switzerland did. Imagine
if you could dramatically reduce your overall crime rate--
Switzerland did. Imagine if you could virtually eliminate all deaths
from heroin--Switzerland did.
How did they do it?
In 1994, Switzerland started an experimental program to sell heroin
addicts the drug at very low cost, even giving it to the addicts who
couldn't afford it. In 2008, 68 percent of the Swiss voted to make the
program permanent. Have Swiss heroin-addiction rates skyrocketed? No,
they have fallen dramatically. So has their overall crime rate.
Will Thailand adopt Switzerland's heroin policy? Probably not. Too many
people, industries and institutions have a vested financial interest
in maintaining the status quo of drug prohibition.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
U. S. A.
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
http://www.cesda.net/downloads/lancet1.pdf with the "82% reduction" on
page 1833.
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