Drug Free America Foundation Applauds Canadian High Court Decision to Keep Marijuana Illegal.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 24, 2003 Drug Free America Foundation commends and supports Canada's court decision. This decision enforces the correct perception that illegal drugs are harmful, which is precisely the message that we need to be sending to our children. The drug policy reform movement has been working throughout the United States and internationally to tear down In communications, to free up a circuit that has been established for a particular session. When the session is completed, the circuit is "torn down" and the components and services involved are available for use by someone else. drug laws and ultimately legalize drugs. This agenda is pursued through decriminalization decriminalization n. the repeal or amendment (undoing) of statutes which made certain acts criminal, so that those acts no longer are crimes or subject to prosecution. Many states have decriminalized certain sexual practices between consenting adults, "loitering," (hanging out without any criminal activity), or out-moded racist laws against miscegenation (marriage or cohabitation between people of different races). efforts and under the guise of medical excuse marijuana, even while there has been no acceptance or approval of smoked marijuana by any major American medical association. "The legalization movement has suffered a major setback with the Canadian court decision. However, we are very concerned over the proposed bill by Prime Minister Martin that would soften penalties for pot possession," says Calvina Fay, executive director of Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. "Canada's proposed decriminalization, as well as the legalization movement's desensitization 1. the prevention or reduction of immediate hypersensitivity reactions by administration of graded doses of allergen. 2. treatment of phobias and related disorders by intentionally exposing the patient, in imagination or in real life, to a hierarchy of emotionally distressing stimuli. of marijuana use, creates the illusion that marijuana is not harmful." A Schedule I drug with addictive tendencies cannot be considered harmless. According to Dr. Eric Voth, chair of the Institute on Global Drug Policy, a brain trust Brain Trust, the group of close advisers to Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was governor of New York state and during his first years as President. The name was applied to them because the members of the group were drawn from academic life. This informal advisory group on the New Deal included Columbia Univ. professors Raymond Moley, Adolf A. Berle, Jr., and Rexford G. Tugwell and expanded to include many more academicians. of the world's leading experts in drug prevention, "Softening drug policy increases drug use and the associated harm to society." History has shown us that when the perception of the harms of drugs increased, drug use went down, and when the perception of the harms of drug use decreased, use rose. Hopefully, Prime Minister Martin and other Canadian policy makers will apply this same logic. |
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