Letter: Current Laws Are Lunacy
Clifford A. Schaffer
March 23, 2008
Tampa Tribune
Joseph Brown proved he doesn't know anything about the subject. The drug laws were lunacy from the very beginning. Every major study of the subject in history has said that the drug laws were the product of racism, ignorance and nonsense. At no time was there any rational consideration of the alternatives or the effects of prohibition.
Brown has a lot of reading to do. He should start his education with the following items:
The short history of the marijuana laws at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm This is the best overall review of the subject ever written. If you haven't read it, then you simply don't know the subject. It is obvious that Brown has not read it.
Clifford A. Schaffer, Aqua Dulce, California | 
