SentLTE-Digest Tuesday, November 20 2012 Volume 12 : Number 044
001 LTE: Re: 'Valley police departments failing sex crime victims'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: A good story
From: Kirk Muse <>
003 LTE: 'Marijuana Laws No Pipe Dream'
From: John Chase <>
004 LTE: Re: 'Colorado law has Oklahoma boarder county poised to respond' ( From: Kirk Muse <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: 'Valley police departments failing sex crime victims'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:08:28 -0800
To the Editor of The East Valley Tribune:
I'm writing about Bill Richardson's column: "Valley police departments
failing sex crime victims" (11-16-12).
Richardson failed to mention why rape kits are going unused and murders
are going unsolved: our war on drugs. There are major financial
incentives for police agencies to make drug busts and confiscate their
money and property. But no financial incentive to solve rapes and murders.
There are lots of victims of our failed war on drugs including rape
victims.
Do I suggest that all drugs should be sold like they were 100 years ago
in grocery stores and pharmacies with no questions asked? No. I believe
marijuana should be legally available to any adult and sold where
alcohol and tobacco products are sold.
For hard drugs like heroin and cocaine I suggest that we adopt the Swiss
drug policy. Switzerland used to have a very serious heroin addiction
problem. Now their heroin problem is a small fraction of what it used to be.
Did the Swiss government get really tough on drug dealers and addicts? No.
In 1994, Switzerland started an experimental program to sell heroin
addicts the drug at very low cost, even giving it to the addicts who
couldn’t afford it. In 2008, 68 percent of the Swiss voted to make the
program permanent.
Have Swiss heroin-addiction rates skyrocketed? No, they have fallen
dramatically.
And so has their overall crime rate.
For the record, I have never even seen cocaine or heroin, (except on TV)
let alone used them.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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Subj: 002 LTE: A good story
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:49:23 -0800
http://www.wimp.com/helpingpeople/
Kirk
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Subj: 003 LTE: 'Marijuana Laws No Pipe Dream'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:05:53 -0800
Editors, Philadelphia Inquirer -
Re: Your recent editorial: "Marijuana Laws No Pipe Dream" about the
Colorado vote November 6th.
Yes, it is "sane and sober democracy". It is also based on evidence.
Three academic papers published recently suggest that legal marijuana
improves public safety. One, "The Eff ect of Alcohol Availability on
Marijuana Use", concludes that alcohol and marijuana are substitutes. So
when one is readily available without the problem of illegality, it is
used in preference to the other(1). The second paper, "Medical Marijuana
Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption", finds that in states
that have phased in medical marijuana, traffic fatalities have dropped
9% and beer consumption has declined significantly(2). It makes sense
when you consider that, for typical users, drinkers are about three
times as impaired as smokers, based on analyses of thousands of traffic
fatalities in Australia and France since the mid-1990s(3). It has been
75years since "Reefer Madness", and the truth is finally coming out.
Now, as data accumulates, we'll soon see whether users of cocaine and
meth switch to marijuana.
References:
1. http://econ.ucdenver.edu/bcrost/research/MLDA%20marijuana.pdf
2.
http://dmarkanderson.com/Medical_Marijuana_Accidents_and_Alcohol_10_16
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3256820/
John G. Chase
727 787 3085 day/night
Advisory Board, www.flcan.org
(Florida Cannabis Action Network)
1620 E Dorchester Dr.
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 004 LTE: Re: 'Colorado law has Oklahoma boarder county poised to respond' (11-20-12).
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:56:30 -0800
To the Editor of The Oklahoman:
I'm writing about your editorial: "Colorado law has Oklahoma boarder
county poised to respond" (11-20-12).
If you want as many children as possible to use marijuana, keep it a
criminalized substance. Marijuana use has increased one thousand fold since
it was criminalized via the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Testifying
before the U. S. Congress in 1937 the Commissioner of Narcotics Harry
Anslinger testified that the United States had a total of 100,000
marijuana users.
Now the government tells us that more then 100 million Americans have
used marijuana. The lure of the forbidden fruit is very
powerful--especially for children.
In the Netherlands marijuana has been quasi legal for several decades
yet the Dutch use marijuana at less then half the rate Americans do.
Why? The lack of the lure of the forbidden fruit.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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