[Sparta]

Job protection at its worst.

[ActionNewsBill]

“Those who support drug legalization criminalization are well funded and highly adept at manipulating the media,” reads a Nov. 1 letter to prosecutors from the president of the National District Attorneys Association, Dan M. Alsobrooks. “And they do not mind deceiving the American public as well.”

Must have been a typo there.

[FreePaul]

The hysteria is ratcheted up a notch with the threat of job loss. The possibility of easy convictions is a real career breaker.

[thepitts]

. “And they do not mind deceiving the American public as well.”

This, from a lawyer.

[ActionNewsBill]

Included with the letter was an open letter also dated Nov. 1 from Scott M. Burns, deputy director for state and local affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, urging prosecutors “to take a stand publicly and tell Americans the truth” about marijuana...

Yeah, I'd like to see these guys teel the truth, for once.

[ActionNewsBill]

“No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana.”

I guess alcohol is not a drug.

[E Rocc]

BENTON - Prosecutors around the country are being urged to take a stand against attempts to legalize or decriminalize controlled substances - in particular, marijuana.

Nothing arouses the ire of a government employee more than the prospect of the dimunation of their scope of authority.

-Eric

[tdadams]

“I would agree that marijuana is a gateway drug to hardcore drugs,” Boyd said. Marijuana is “the great seducer,” Boyd said, because “it breaks down a person’s defense to say ‘no’ to the harder drugs.”

That's just utterly biased conjecture. In Amsterdam, where marijuana use has been de facto legalized, the experience has been just the opposite. Use of harder drugs have gone down significantly.

[HELLRAISER II]

Two words come to mind after reading this pig slop. BULL$HIT!

[fporretto]

How is it that prosecutors and attorneys-general, who are paid by the State and who nominally serve the public by enforcing the law, are permitted to engage in this kind of campaign without at least having their motives and ethics questioned by the press?

Pro-life politicians are constantly required to face such questions as: "How could you, with your views, enforce our current laws defending the right to choose?" Pro-gun politicians are constantly required to face this one: "How can someone of your views be trusted to enforce our gun laws?"

Well, pro-Drug War prosecutors who choose to step into the political fray, here's one for you -- a bit milder than the above, but at least as important: If citizen initiatives were to overturn the laws against the possession, sale and use of marijuana, or some other currently controlled substance, how could we trust you, with your views, to defend the rights of those whose conduct had been legalized thereby?

Take your time.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Good God, this was embarrassing to read. Note to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: it's not the 1930s any more. People can actually get their own "information" about marijuana on this little thing called the "Internet."

[Mudboy Slim]

"Job protection at its worst."

Excellent point...without the abysmal failure of the WarOnSomeDrugs, these prosecutors might haveta prosecute some real criminals and not folks smoking a weed in the privacy of their own home.

Marijuana will be De-Criminalized at the Federal Level by the end of Dubyuh's second term...SITYS!!

FReegards...MUD

[Kevin Curry]

Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994, surpassing heroin.[emphasis added]

Emergency rooms are the most expensive form of medicine there is. The dopers who end up there don't pay the full tabs or even a substantial portion of the tabs for these visits. Other people do, whether as taxpayers or via increased insurance premiums.

Dopers and socialism go together like screws and nuts.

[Kevin Curry]

My, George Soros's blind and groping little liberdopian nanny socialist wasps are angry this morning. Whack their mud nest with the stick of truth and watch them go beserk.

[af_vet_rr]

On the one hand I don't care for drugs and their "legalization" but on the other I don't care for the federal government meddling in what should be a state/local issue. I never really did much research since it didn't concern me, but I was always under the impression that drugs weren't explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, therefore they should be decided at the state level.

[TLBSHOW]

Congressman Dan Burton Slams Drug War, Hints at Legalization of Street Drugs

[Lexington Green]

DA's are often elected.... they can be un-elected or recalled, as happened in CA when narco-nazi DA ignored the new med pot law

[TigersEye]

from Scott M. Burns, deputy director for state and local affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, urging prosecutors “to take a stand publicly and tell Americans the truth” ...

...agreed Scott County Assistant Prosecutor Paul Boyd. “It would lead to so many more people out there high operating machinery and other things.”

60 percent of teenagers in treatment have a primary marijuana diagnosis, according to Burns. “No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana.”

Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994, surpassing heroin.

Burns writes of the increasing potency of marijuana and its addictive properties in addition to being a “gateway drug” for many people.

“I would agree that marijuana is a gateway drug to hardcore drugs,” Boyd said. Marijuana is “the great seducer,” Boyd said, because “it breaks down a person’s defense to say ‘no’ to the harder drugs.”

So much for the truth.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[EBUCK]

Job protection at its worst.

Yup. How many assistant DA's would be needed if there weren't a slew of pot users to nail to the wall?

“Those who support drug legalization are well funded and highly adept at manipulating the media,” reads a Nov. 1 letter to prosecutors from the president of the National District Attorneys Association, Dan M. Alsobrooks. “And they do not mind deceiving the American public as well.”

LOL...who' calling the kettle black now? Wasn't it just a week, or so, ago that our esteemed Czar told parents to lie to their kids? And now the legalization crowd are the ones without scruples? ROTFFLMGDAO, propo-spewage from the snake pit should always be so blatant.

EBUCK

[EBUCK]

Another thread detailing the truth...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/815625/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

EBUCK