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• • 15 Nov 05
  • 9:42 pm

  WOLF, if you have data supporting your claim that "smoking pot leads to emphysema (or cancer).." please provide a cite from the 21st century. As a 29 year chronic user of cannabis, I am always interested in being educated. Fairly exhaustive reading on my part over the past ten years has me confident that no such link has been established between the ingestion of cannabis and either cancer or emphysema.
  
  That being said, my answer to the posed question, "Is pot harmful to your health?" is - I guess so, but compared to what?
  
  I live in a major metropolitan area. Walking outside …

  Posted to Cops and Harm Reduction Hotties, Oh My!

• • 15 Nov 05
  • 9:48 pm

  Last post should have read, "....cannabis smoke clearly CONTAINS carcinogens..", rather than "Concerns".
  
  While I may not agree with the cited health risk concerns expressed by Prohibitionists, I acknowledge that marijuana and other drugs have the potential to be abused and therefore could also stimulate an increase in adverse behavior and health for the individual and the community.
  
  If you agree with my stated premise, then I ask simply which is preferable - a distribution system that is significantly controlled and regulated or a distribution system that is completely uncontrolled and utterly unregulated?
  
  Therein lies the message of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. One can …

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• • 15 Nov 05
  • 10:06 pm

  NEILEMAC, you have a good sense for the written word. I could use more people like you in our direct activism getting drug policy reform messages into the print media. Please consider dropping me a line. http://www.mapinc.org/resource is the way to get to my email. Peace Steve

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• • 05 Nov 05
  • 1:36 am

  WOLF, if by "Steve" in your first post, you were reefering to me, here's my response. (If not, here it is anyway...heh)
  
  You aptly note that most of the insane sentencing enhancements have been passed only during the past 20 years. Actually the bulk were passed between 1985 and 1998. There's been very little public support for making them any more crazy during the past 5-7 years because the citizenry is becoming so much more educated about how futile such sentencing is, how irrational it is and how such sentencing is far more destructive to the offender and to the community than …

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• • 03 Nov 05
  • 1:49 am

  Norm Stamper is one of the latest additions to our Speakers Bureau at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://leap.cc/tbay
  
  He joins other former police chiefs from San Antonio TX, San Jose CA and St Augustine CA. Not sure if it's something about cities which begin with the letter "S" but we're pleased to have them all on board. To see who else is willing to stand up in public and speak on the failed policy of drug Prohibition, see the Speakers Bureau link at LEAP. Inquiries about LEAP welcome by contacting me directly heath@leap.cc....Peace from Clearwater FL, Steve

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