ONCE AGAIN, DRUG CRUSADERS MISGUIDED

Before the drug crusaders wheel out the usual hysterical lies in
their attempts to outlaw salvia divinorum, it is worthwhile to notice
that no serious problems have been associated with salvia divinorum
to date. There are no deaths, no desperate addictions and no
robberies, assaults or murders connected to salvia.

Of course, prohibitionists who advocate a salvia ban need no evidence
of risk or harm to spew out dire warnings. If it is a drug and some
people like it, it must be dangerous.

Never mind that alcohol and tobacco kill hundreds of thousands every
year while salvia has yet to cause a single fatality. The drug
warriors still want a total ban. The moral morons advocating
prohibition never stop to consider that throwing someone in prison
has a far more detrimental effect than a lifetime of salvia divinorum use.

- -- Ralph Givens, Daly City, Calif.