Pubdate: Wed, 31 Jul 2002
Source: Visayan Daily Star (Philippines)
Webpage: Copyright: 2002 Visayan Daily Star
Contact:  http://dgte.mozcom.com/visayandailystar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1688
Author: Steve Shamblen

WHAT ABOUT SECOND-HAND MJ SMOKE?

The government tells us the simple plant of marijuana is so dangerous that 
it requires the death penalty for its possession.

Why are these people, who stand so firm on this issue, putting an unaware 
public in immediate danger then?

By burning a very large amount marijuana in the presence of a President, no 
less, with a large crowd of public officials and police officers, as well 
as reporters, photographers and innocent on lookers near by, how do you 
explain that no danger will come to them?

What about the public population that is living down wind and near the 
airport where the marijuana was burned? Do they not have the right to have 
their immediate atmosphere not polluted with a large quantity of second 
hand marijuana smoke?

Do the public officials need to promote their wrongful and deadly message 
of marijuana to the point where they can not dispose properly of what they 
refer to as: a hazard and dangerous plant that is worthy of the death penalty?

Does not the public deserve the appropriate manner of destruction of police 
evidence so that they are free from the state pronounced affects of the 
evil of the weed?

Just what do you think they are trying to say?

The message of a public marijuana burn is not worth it and it's wrong.

Steve Shamblen
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