Pubdate: Wed, 28 Nov 2012
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Copyright: 2012 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/25
Author: Dan J. Hawkins
Page: 9B

SOME PREFER VACUUM

The Philadelphia Inquirer's recent editorial on marijuana
legalization, reprinted in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, could be
said to have been overly simplistic.

Most people may also be blissfully unaware of the nature of some of
the many unintended consequences of legalizing medical or recreational
marijuana use as has been proposed. Marijuana's principal psychoactive
constituent is an already legal FDA-approved oral Schedule III drug
available by prescription from any pharmacy within the United States,
including in Arkansas. What else may people not know?

Why would any state have citizens vote in a virtual information vacuum
on matters already resolved by other means? Aristotle said nature
abhors a vacuum. Apparently some with a political agenda do not.

DAN J. HAWKINS

Harrison
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