Editor:
I read your article on marijuana still being a danger. I found it veryinteresting. So, you’re not worried about cocaine or heroin or prescription pills being used as recreational drugs? Weird … because I always thought they were much worse then marijuana.
Even though people will argue that marijuana is the “gateway drug,” so what?
There are a lot of other drugs that are worse than pot. That’s all I’m saying. Maybe you should do an article about how tobacco kills 120,000 people a year or how alcohol kills 3,000 people a year. Guess what? Marijuana will never kill you. If I were you, I would be writing about the drug that kills people instead of the drug that doesn’t kill anyone.
Stacy Hersom
Arcadia, Fla.
Editor:
As president of Bakersfield Chapter of NORML, I commend the staff of The Renegade Rip for their excellent coverage of the issues relating to the Bakersfield College chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Thanks for printing opinions and covering all sides of the issues relating to the laws, regulations, uses and related topics regarding the medicinal use of marijuana and controversies surrounding the use of hemp for food, fuel, clothing and other industrial uses.
BC NORML did a great job of educating themselves, other students, faculty, and administrators on campus and in the community to overcome the lies and misconceptions of government and corporate propaganda.
So many good people are fearful in a society where due to peer pressure and marketing it is difficult for good people to accept the notion that they too have been duped into the belief that marijuana is not just a natural herb with many good qualities.
Thanks to BC NORML for supporting the fight against cancer and after being approved to set up a beautiful booth, only to be censored and then shut down by the leadership of the organizers of the American Cancer Society.
By their censorship of valuable information provided by NORML, the Cancer Society is complicit in keeping cancer patients and donors of the Run for Life event in the dark and afraid to ease the pain from vomiting caused by radiation treatments.
We at NORML protested at the Pegasus Post office on April15 to support the taxation and regulation of marijuana as a means of balancing the state budget and an opportunity to stop wasting money arresting otherwise innocent people.
The students are leading the way and are making a difference.
It is appropriate to remember the words of Margaret Mead, “Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, that is the only way it can happen.”
Thanks again to the Rip, the students, faculty and administration of BC and especially for the NORML students standing up to the discrimination, lies and undeserved ridicule.
Douglas McAfee
President, Bakersfield NORML