Sep 6
Politicians and cops for pot
Toronto’s five major mayoral candidates admit that they have inhaled in the past and all but one support the decriminalization of pot.
Only [Tom] Jakobek, against decriminalization …. said while it makes sense to ease pot laws for medicinal purposes, he does not want to see the crime of possessing marijuana struck from the books. ‘The effects on the lungs are just as bad as cigarette smoking and I wouldn’t want to promote cigarette smoking,’ said Jakobek.” (09/04/03)
Now retired after a 26-year career with the New Jersey State Police, Cole is leading a new group of current and former law-enforcement officials who are similarly disillusioned with the war on drugs.
Called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP, this nationwide organization takes as its premise that the war on drugs is, as Cole puts it, ‘a total and abject failure.’(09/04/03)
Both of these encouraging bits of news were found via Rational Review.
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I have to question Tom Jakobek’s allegation that pot is as bad for the lungs as cigarette smoke. I had a chest x-ray twenty some years after I started toking. It was springtime, during my annual Lenten abstention, but the doctor’s comment wasn’t just that my lungs looked healthy. He concluded based on the x-ray that I had never smoked. The accident which prompted the x-ray was 100% the other driver’s fault but I still thought it politic not to educate him.