Pubdate: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 Source: Boulder Weekly (CO) Copyright: 2001 Bolder Weekly Contact: http://www.boulderweekly.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/57 Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n465/a02.html JESUS AND JOINTS Tommy Chong said it best when he said that God was the first stoner... that's why He is the most high. Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the "drug treatment" industry, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the politicians themselves et al can't live without the budget justification, not to mention the invisible profits, bribery, corruption and forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them. The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed to be inalienable according to the constitution and bill of rights. Myron Von Hollingsworth, Fort Worth, Texas - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D