Pubdate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012
Source: Washington Post (DC)
Copyright: 2012 The Washington Post Company
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Author: Eric E. Sterling

DRUG LAWS ARE NO JOKING MATTER

Regarding Al Kamen's Jan. 18 column " 'Reefer Madness' for the YouTube 
Generation":

This article is consistent with my hypothesis that the rules of 
professional conduct of journalists or some style manual require that 
articles about drug policy include a joke about chips, brownies or 
junk food. Can reporters and editors be so humor-deprived that they 
always have to joke about laws and policies that every year put 
hundreds of thousands of cannabis users in handcuffs, give them a 
criminal record and cost hundreds of millions of dollars on pointless 
police overtime. Ha, ha, ha, "pass the chips"; I'm dying with laughter.

Eric E. Sterling

Chevy Chase
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