[Wamvan] Fwd: [dnc-board] Stop enabling drug use, stop using drugs

[Lindsay Miles]

heinous. thanks for sharing tami.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com>wrote:

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> A stab at Vandu.....
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> and many, many others.......
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> this actually is more than half of the mindset of unceded coast salish
> territory/the lower mainland.
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> tami starlight
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> http://www.theprovince.com/news/Stop+enabling+drug+stop+using+drugs/6168434/story.html
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> The fact that four former B.C. chief law officers have added their voices
> to the call for marijuana decriminalization doesn't cut any ice with me.
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> It's easy to come out in favour of something now so politically correct
> that to argue against it in any way immediately gets one branded as a
> redneck or a Republican, which is the kiss of death in these left- lurching
> parts.
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> The question that really has to be asked is why Ujjal Dosanjh, Geoff
> Plant, Colin Gabelmann and Graeme Bowbrick didn't speak out in favour of a
> legal market for marijuana while they served as attorneys-general from 1991
> to 2005.
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> In fact, I'm getting a little tired of the habit of former Vancouver
> may-ors and other headline-addicted exofficials only saying what they
> really mean when they're out of office - when it's politically safe to do
> so.
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> Myself, I favour pot legalization. And I don't think the cops should be
> hounding pot smokers; they've got better things to do with their time.
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> However, I don't view the drug as some kind of divine weed or think it's
> anywhere near as harmless as the pro-pot crusaders would have you believe.
> And I certainly don't think one should be allowed to drive while stoned.
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> Evidence appears to be mounting that regular marijuana use increases the
> chances that a teenager will develop psychosis or schizophrenia. And a
> University of Pittsburgh Medical Center study suggests its use by moms
> during pregnancy can affect children's later intellectual development.
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> All this helps explain why I am happy that Beatle Paul McCartney - first
> turned on to pot by Bob Dylan in the mid-'60s - now says he's given up
> marijuana so he can be a better parent to Beatrice, his eight-year-old
> daughter.
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> "I did a lot, and it was enough. I smoked my share," he told Rolling Stone
> magazine. "When you're bringing up a youngster, your sense of
> responsibility does kick in. Enough's enough - you just don't seem to think
> it's necessary."
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> Yes, enough is enough. And I think it high time we realized that, whether
> we're talking about marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin or highly addictive
> prescription drugs such as OxyContin - or an unholy mix of them - that we
> in the Lower Main-land have a huge drug problem.
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> It's one that legalization alone will not solve. And it's one that, to a
> great degree, has been fuelled by the North-American-wide obsession with
> drug-using celebrities such as Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson. For
> years, it's been socially and politically cool to enable drug use - and
> have taxpayers pump thou-sands of dollars into groups such as the Vancouver
> Area Network of Drug Users that push drug dependency as a viable lifestyle.
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> Those hard-earned dollars, in my view, would be far better spent promoting
> the anti-drug message of author/addict William S. Burroughs: "Anything that
> can be done chemically can be done by other means."
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> Drugs and drug legalization are the easy way out. The hard part is finding
> ways to live without using drugs as a crutch, and to finally realize your
> full human potential.
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> That's the message those four ex-attorneys-general should be delivering.
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> Read more:
> http://www.theprovince.com/news/Stop+enabling+drug+stop+using+drugs/6168434/story.html#ixzz1mfkNh6eP
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