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US UT: Editorial: 'Weed' Is Tough To Eradicate
ccguide Tuesday 20 Aug 2002 Pubdate: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 Source: Deseret News (UT) Copyright: 2002 Deseret News Publishing Corp. Contact: Website: http://www.desnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/124 'WEED' IS TOUGH TO ERADICATE Last week, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration found 2,000 marijuana plants growing in Dell Canyon. A few days later, they found another 2,500 nearby. In St. George, 100 pounds of pot was confiscated during a routine traffic stop. There will be more to come. For a century, the caretakers of the public good have tried to weed out marijuana. The task, however, has proven to be more daunting than eliminating dandelions. American culture is laced with the stuff. When talk show host Jay Leno can rib his band leader about smoking dope and comedians like Cheech Marin can build a career on it, you know many Americans have accepted the drug as part of the American grain. In some minds, marijuana has gone from its days as "demon reefer" to a rather simple alternative vice - more akin to bathtub gin, say, than crack cocaine. Marijuana has even seeped into our language. Now, Nevada wants to legalize the drug, some California doctors want to prescribe it as a medicine and hundreds farmers south of the border are itching to grow it. When the Deseret News did a story about the dangers of legalizing marijuana not along ago, the piece prompted dozens of letters and e- mails, part of an orchestrated campaign. Said one: "There's nothing to do in Utah but smoke weed," then went on to say, "Be warned, Utah. We're coming to change your drug laws." You can apparently add a new color to the political spectrum: the "marijuana militant." Of course, those who favor legalization of marijuana hate nothing more than having society's patrician voices speak out against them. To the reformers, the naysayers reach the height of sanctimony when they say, "Marijuana is evil. It kills true personal fulfillment. It damages individuals, families and society. Growing it, selling it and smoking it are crimes because the drug is a thief. It steals the best things America has to offer." To the "letter tree" of e-mailers who flooded the Deseret News with angry protests the last time we spoke out against the drug, we have only one thing to say: Marijuana is evil. It kills true personal fulfillment. It kills the best things America has to offer. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth
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