Letter: Busted Phelps Has Plenty Of Company
Robert Sharpe
February 15, 2009
The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
Olympian Michael Phelps is in good company. The list of professional athletes caught using marijuana is long. Could it be that drug warriors have been lying about marijuana's health impact? They've definitely been lying about the deterrent value of marijuana prohibition.
The United States has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available to adults over the age of 18.
Marijuana prohibition is built on lies, beginning with the reefer madness myths of the 1930s and continuing to this day with government anti-drug propaganda masquerading as science.
As an admitted former pot smoker, President Barack Obama no doubt knows the truth about marijuana. Truthfully, marijuana is easily the least harmful recreational drug, legal or otherwise. If health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal.
The question is, will Obama bring change or will he continue to subsidize the prejudices of culture warriors? | 
