News (Media Awareness Project) - CN ON: PUB LTE: Police Searches Destroy Futures |
| Title: | CN ON: PUB LTE: Police Searches Destroy Futures |
| Published On: | 2002-06-14 |
| Source: | Cambridge Reporter, The (CN ON) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-23 04:51:12 |
POLICE SEARCHES DESTROY FUTURES
Prohibition strikes again (13 pot smokers charged, June 7). The direct
cost/ cause of teenage interest in the illicit can be laid at the door of
1900 hysteria-based laws. Schools should be monitoring their own lockers,
as they did in my youth, not potentially ruining their students' futures
with police searches.
No one wants our youths high on anything but life, but we have no one to
blame for failure in that goal but ourselves. Maybe we need to learn more
about what we are teaching, ie. is marijuana all evil as we have insisted?
Maybe the lesson isn't being believed due to booze and tobacco being legal
and the lack of protection accorded to their users.
Suz Fox
Kalispell,Mont.
Prohibition strikes again (13 pot smokers charged, June 7). The direct
cost/ cause of teenage interest in the illicit can be laid at the door of
1900 hysteria-based laws. Schools should be monitoring their own lockers,
as they did in my youth, not potentially ruining their students' futures
with police searches.
No one wants our youths high on anything but life, but we have no one to
blame for failure in that goal but ourselves. Maybe we need to learn more
about what we are teaching, ie. is marijuana all evil as we have insisted?
Maybe the lesson isn't being believed due to booze and tobacco being legal
and the lack of protection accorded to their users.
Suz Fox
Kalispell,Mont.
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