Pubdate: Fri, 02 May 2014
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
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Author: Suzanne Wills

'STUPID' DOES NOT APPLY TO ALL

Sue Biesel wants to arrest drug users because they are "stupid people 
who don't care ... about themselves or their families."

But what if they aren't? What if they are highly motivated, 
intelligent, successful people?

Would entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Rick Steves and Steve Jobs 
and athletes like Mark Stepnoski and Michael Phelps and scientists 
like Carl Sagan and Francis Crick and entertainers like Oprah Winfrey 
and Willie Nelson be imprisoned along with the rest of the 100 
million Americans who report having used an illegal drug?

Would the "stupid people" who have damaged themselves and their 
families using tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs or even 
acetaminophen or ibuprofen be next?

Sue Biesel would have a difficult time finding enough intelligent, 
caring, abstinent American prison guards to keep the rest locked up.

Suzanne Wills,

Drug Policy Forum of Texas, Dallas
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