Pubdate: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 Source: Weymouth News (MA) Copyright: 2006 Weymouth News Contact: http://www2.townonline.com/weymouth/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3594 Author: Randall St Jacques Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n1986.a07.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?233 (LEAP) RESPECTEABLE AND RESPECTED ORGANIZATION Officer Jim Bowen is just the type of officer that joins LEAP after retirement. Formed by former (and active) officers all over North America, many of them with long service in drug enforcement and, all that entails; LEAP is a respectable and respected organization. Officer Bowen is a victim of his own environment. He has swallowed the paid propaganda of disgraceful NIDA, ONDCP, DARE, DEA, FBI etc. ad nauseam about marijuana force fed to us with taxpayers' dollars. Of course he has come in contact with people who are ready to clutch at any straw to avoid the heavy penalties for using an herb. I, who completely disagree with Officer Bowen, would jump at the opportunity to absolve my most grievous sin by going anywhere except behind bars. Bowen is victim and perpetrator of his own propaganda. There are any number of honest scientific findings published in respected journals that refute and repudiate Officer Bowen's choice of reading material about marijuana. Randall St Jacques CEO Windsor West Marijuana Party (Canada) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom