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NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN USE AND ABUSE
¡°With alcohol we acknowledge the distinction between use and abuse, and we focus our law enforcement on efforts to stop irresponsible use. We do not arrest or jail responsible drinkers. That should be our policy for marijuana as well.¡±
The Bush administration¡¯s drug czar, John Walters, will have none of this. He talks about marijuana in terms reminiscent of the apocalyptic warnings issued by Harry Anslinger, the first head of the Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s and a driving force behind the 1937 marijuana prohibition.
Anslinger deemed marijuana ¡°an addictive drug which induces in its users insanity, criminality and death.¡± Walters often takes issue with ¡°the perception that marijuana is about fun and freedom. It isn¡¯t. It¡¯s about dependency, disease and dysfunction.¡±
(For a vivid portrayal of the dysfunction Walters warns about, see a mock documentary produced for the White House Office of National Drug Policy. It is entitled Stoners in the Mist, a play on the 1988 film on mountain gorillas in the Congo. here)
Americans who have admitted smoking marijuana at one point or another but escaped dependency, disease and dysfunction include President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator John Kerry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Vice President Al Gore and Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for next November¡¯s presidential election.
Former President Bill Clinton falls into a special category. When he studied in England, away from the long reach of U.S. law, he experimented with marijuana ¡°a time or two,¡± he once told a television interviewer. ¡°I didn¡¯t inhale and I didn¡¯t try again.¡± Hollywood, conscious of a mass audience that does inhale, has produced a slew of new ¡°stoner¡± movies this year. The pot-smoking protagonists include an investment banker and a medical student (Harold & Kumar), a psychiatrist (The Wackness), and a process server (Pineapple Express).
But sympathetic portrayals of marijuana use in popular culture do not necessarily translate into faster progress towards legalization. Government anti-drug fighters are serious in their opposition.
When Barney Frank, at a news conference to explain the rationale for his bill, was asked what timeline he had in mind, he quipped: ¡°Not soon ¡¦ but eventually, you¡¯ll see the development of a marijuana futures market.¡± David Murray, the chief scientist in the drug czar¡¯s office who had listened to the briefing, was not amused. ¡°It¡¯s not funny,¡± he said, ¡°not funny at all.¡±
But not impossible either, in the long run Have Your Say: America¡¯s never-ending prohibition Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. This entry was posted on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pm and is filed under Culture . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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