THE CANNABIS FACTOR IN POLITICS

The Summit Daily reported on the Summit County Democrats 2004
platform.

That new platform (www.summitcountydemocrats.com) includes language
broadly calling for credible drug law reform and specifically includes
allowing American farmers to grow hemp like other farmers around the
world and to stop the federal government's war on sick citizens who
use cannabis to feel better.

With about 50 percent of potential young adult voters having tried
cannabis, it's increasingly clear to this group that cannabis is not
nearly as harmful as the government propaganda dictates, and the war
on drugs is at best a failure.

As there is an effort to influence young adults to vote it's becoming
clear that the war on drugs is even used by the Bush administration to
fix elections.

Those young adult voters know this. Now, the Summit County Democrats
new county platform acknowledges cannabis/hemp as something to be
protected not exterminated.

Young voters now may identify with a political party that knows it
also.

Democracy needs young voters. And if that's not enough to garner young
voters, consider that the guy sitting in the president's seat must
reinstate the draft if allowed to continue in that direction.

Stan White - Summit Cove