NO CEASE-FIRE IN DRUG WAR

A scientific ranking of the risks associated with drugs is always
useful but hardly new. Yet the bloody drug war rages on, and the Drug
Enforcement Administration continues to claim that marijuana is as
dangerous as heroin and has no medicinal use.

Crime bills and drug laws are not based on science. They are passed
like all other laws are passed, with heavy influence from special
interest lobbyists and their money.

Concerned citizens armed with scientific studies can reform drug laws,
but progress will continue to be difficult and slow.

Suzanne Wills, Drug Policy Forum of Texas, Dallas