Pubdate: Sat, 09 Jul 2005
Source: Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Copyright: 2005 Deseret News Publishing Corp.
Contact:  http://www.desnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/124
Author: Robert Sharpe
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n1085.a09.html

FEDS' DRUG PRIORITIES MIXED UP

Your July 7 editorial was right on target.

While local governments are struggling with a methamphetamine
epidemic, the Office of National Drug Control Policy is spending
millions on a "reefer madness revisited" ad campaign.

This reflects a truly bizarre sense of priorities. Local law
enforcement is where the rubber meets the road. And it's not marijuana
that concerns them, but rather meth. Meanwhile, an out-of-touch
federal government continues to be obsessed with marijuana. The tax
dollars wasted on the federal agency's misleading anti-marijuana
campaign would be better spent on treatment for methamphetamine addicts.

Robert Sharpe

MPA policy analyst Common Sense for Drug Policy
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