Toughening Marijuana Laws
“What used to be the age of the flower children has become the age of the Crips and Bloods,” said Oregon Democrat state Rep. Tom Mason of Portland in explaining how the bloody war among crack gangs created support for the re-criminalization of marijuana.
This, in my opinion, is like comparing Bambi to a coiled rattle snake.
“With the penalty against marijuana consumption merely being a citation, no one is paying any attention to it,” said Lungren.
Lungren is right; when cops are dodging bullets from the crack gangs, marijuana citations probably don’t even enter their minds!
“Figures released in July by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed that the number of ‘current users’ of marijuana fell by 33%, to 12 million people, between 1985 and 1988.” This would indicate to me that marijuana use is on the decrease, and this would dictate stiffer penalties?
I would strongly advocate attacking the cancer of crack cocaine before the “hang nail” of marijuana!
JOHN WEHNER
Venice
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