Pubdate: Wed, 11 Aug 1999
Source: Daily Gazette (NY)
Copyright: 1999 - The Gazette Newspapers
Contact:  http://www.dailygazette.com/
Author: HARVEY KECK Jr.

"KILLER WEED?"

Since we are all so interested in statistics today, I have a few our
politicians and proponents of this nation's idiotic "war on drugs" might
enjoy:

For last year, the number of deaths directly caused by tobacco was
approximately 445,700; the number of deaths directly caused by alcohol was
approximately 145,000, and the number of deaths caused by pot was zero.

Indeed, since the use of marijuana boomed in the mid-1960s, no death has
ever been attributed to pot use. Yet pot remains illegal! Crazy?

HARVEY KECK Jr. Canajoharie

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