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From: Duane Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stopping Smokers Not Killers
Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 5:37 PM
The press has never informed the public of the side effects of psycho drugs.
The majority of the kids involved in the school shootings were on these
drugs.
Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> It's amazing to think that drugs that can cause violent
> mania are being prescribed en mass to children while
> drugs that calm people down like cannabis are the
> NUMBER ONE target of law enforcement in the US!
> http://users.erols.com/igoddard/littleton.htm
> http://users.erols.com/igoddard/conyers.htm
> http://users.erols.com/igoddard/prozac.htm
>
> =======================================
> NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
> 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
> Washington DC 20037
> World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/
> =======================================
> For release: October 20, 1999
> =======================================
> For additional information:
> George Getz, Press Secretary
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>
> Why are police arresting more dope smokers
> than murderers, robbers, thugs, and rapists?
>
> WASHINGTON, DC -- Police are more eager to arrest
> people for smoking marijuana than for murder, robbery, or
> rape, according to new figures from the FBI -- and that's
> a criminal misuse of law enforcement resources that puts
> innocent Americans at risk, the Libertarian Party charged
> today.
>
> "This is astonishing: Police apparently would rather
> arrest a person with marijuana in his possession than a
> sadistic killer with blood on his hands," said Steve Dasbach,
> the party's national director. "We have to ask: What are
> these police smoking?"
>
> According to the new FBI Uniform Crime Report, police
> arrested more people for non-violent marijuana offenses in
> 1998 than for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault
> -- combined.
>
> In all, 682,885 Americans were arrested last year on
> marijuana-related charges, while only 676,020 people were
> arrested for the crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and
> aggravated assault.
>
> Of those arrested for marijuana offenses, 88% were
> charged with mere possession.
>
> "These figures are great news for murderers, rapists,
> and robbers, since police appear to be more interested in
> arresting someone for smoking marijuana than for committing
> a cold-blooded killing, a sadistic rape, or a brazen burglary
> spree," said Dasbach. "This is a clear case of public
> endangerment -- and a tragic waste of criminal justice resources.
>
> "The fact is, every marijuana arrest means there is
> less police time, less law enforcement money, less court time,
> and fewer jail cells available to arrest, convict, and
> imprison violent criminals," he said. "Does that make any
> sense?"
>
> According to another new study from the Marijuana
> Policy Project, there are 59,300 people in U.S. prisons and
> jails for marijuana offenses at any given time, and there
> have been nearly 3.5 million marijuana arrests since President
> Bill Clinton took office.
>
> "The next time you hear about a vicious murder on the
> news, ask yourself: Could the police have prevented this crime
> if they hadn't devoted uncounted millions of dollars and man-
> hours to arresting those 3.5 million people on marijuana
> charges over the past six years?" said Dasbach.
>
> "How many people are dead, or raped, or had their
> possessions stolen, or were savagely beaten because a local
> cop was booking a marijuana suspect instead of protecting
> innocent Americans from evil criminals? That's the real,
> human cost of these new FBI figures -- and the sad price
> we pay for the government's War on Marijuana."
>
> The good news in the new FBI Uniform Crime Report
> is that violent crime is down, acknowledged Dasbach --
> falling by 5% last year.
>
> "The question is: How much faster would crime be
> dropping if police made murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated
> assault their top priority, instead of marijuana?" he asked.
> "In other words, how much safer would we be if police targeted
> dangerous criminals like Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam --
> instead of harmless victims like Cheech and Chong?"
>
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