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health warnings be the same proportion as those in magazine ads.
And how did they justify it?


Here is an example of our law enforcement's attitudes toward marijuana:

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
*   FBI Director William S. Sessions, questioned by the Senate Judiciary
*   Committee in March 1986, acknowledged that he once told one of his
*   assistants that he thought several Ku Klux Klan members accused of
*   lynching a black man "were OK until I learned they smoked pot".

This is a historically consistent view espoused by Government officials:

#   "60 Years of Reefer Madness", High Times Magazine, July 1997
#
#   1937: Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, read into
#   official testimony (without objection) before Congress, stories of
#   "coloreds" with big lips seducing white women with jazz and marijuana,
#   claiming that 50% of all violent crime by blacks and Latino immigrants
#   has been traced directly to marijuana.


*   "Phantom Numbers Haunt the War on Drugs"
*   By Christopher S. Wren, The New York Times, April 20, 1997
*   
*   Politicians are said to use statistics the way drunks use lampposts: for
*   support rather then illumination. The aphorism seems more apt for the War
*   on Drugs, which abounds with statistical lampposts that shed little light
*   on the nation's preoccupati