WHERE ARE THE BODIES?

(Re: "Pot City, USA," Wayne's Word, June 30.) The most curious aspect of
Boulder's No. 2 position in pot consumption is the absence of the crime
wave predicted by America's drug crusaders. After all, marijuana was
outlawed for these reasons, outlined in U.S. government propaganda:

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity,
criminality and death."

"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."

"[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania,
probably to kill his brother."

(See the lies used to outlaw marijuana at
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t3.htm.)

The unanswered question is how Boulder, with the second-highest per capita
rate of pot use in the nation, can escape the scourge of marijuana. Where
are the murders, robberies, rapes and the wanton violence predicted by
every drug czar since Harry J. Anslinger?

Redford Givens, webmaster, DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy