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Asheville columnist: "What about alcohol?"
Written by SAFER   
Tuesday, 05 May 2009

From Asheville Citizen-Times columnist Dave Russel's latest piece:

What about alcohol?

In many ways, legalizing marijuana makes more sense than legalizing even alcohol. Marijuana, while habit-forming, is not addictive. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana, but people drink themselves to death, sadly. Overall, alcohol use, through DUI accidents and long-term health issues, kills about 100,000 people a year. I’ll take a stoned driver over a drunk driver any day.

Studies show that alcohol contributes to incidences of domestic violence and sexual assault and marijuana use does not. As a matter of fact, studies show that alcohol use contributes to aggressive behavior and acts of violence, whereas marijuana use actually reduces the likelihood of violence. And finally, like it says on more than one bathroom wall, “God made marijuana, man made alcohol. Who do you trust?”

 
Westword: Wake-Up Call: Mason Tvert on the money
Written by Patricia Calhoun   
Thursday, 07 May 2009

If the Colorado Legislature can tie a debate on the death penalty to the dismal economy, no reason California can't do the same for a discussion of legalizing marijuana. "Well, I think it's not time for (legalization), but I think it's time for a debate," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday. "I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues, I'm always for an open debate on it. And I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what effect did it have on those countries?"

 
UNC Connection: Growing Debate
Written by Karissa Conard, Josh Divine, and Matthew Fullen   
Monday, 20 April 2009

Looking at Marijuana from UNC to D.C.

The phrase "4/20" has the ability to spark several different topics within the mind depending on your level of knowledge concerning marijuana. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th and the Columbine shooting occurred on April 20th, but neither of these are the topic that generally comes to mind when someone hears "4/20." In response to the current 4/20 celebration of marijuana subculture, The UNC Connection researched the controversial topic surrounding marijuana usage, ranging from the history of the criminalization of marijuana in the United States, to current attempts at legalization, to actual marijuana usage. The UNC Connection spoke to representatives from several different lobbying groups, citizens and professionals within the community, and even to individual marijuana users and dealers.

 
Drug War Chronicle: Marijuana Reform Approaches the Tipping Point
Written by Phil Smith   
Friday, 01 May 2009

Sometime in the last few months, the notion of legalizing marijuana crossed an invisible threshold. Long relegated to the margins of political discourse by the conventional wisdom, pot freedom has this year gone mainstream.

The potential flu pandemic and President Obama's 100th day in office may have knocked marijuana off the front pages this week, but so far this year, the issue has exploded in the mass media, impelled by the twin forces of economic crisis and Mexican violence fueled by drug prohibition. A Google news search for the phrase "legalize marijuana" turned up more than 1,100 hits -- and that's just for the month of April.

 
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