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In BLACK & WHITE
Michael Hess BBSNews 2002 |
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BBSNews 2002-05-27 — It is a sad day for many. Memories of those who have fought and died for freedom. Memories of those innocents killed by madmen on 09/11/02. And the memory of truth which died with them. For the very government who claims a War on Terrorism is
DEA Administrator
Teaching children that it is ok for the federal government to lie is wrong. But it gets even worse. Now
"The Drug Enforcement Administration has formed a partnership with the National Foundation of Women Legislators to increase nationwide awareness of the dangers of club drugs such as Ecstasy," said DEA chief Asa Hutchinson in the Washington Times.
Let me stop here for just a second before I continue this article for a Harm Reduction Public Service Announcement. The same one that my youngest daughter at 19 years old hears from me, her father. IF YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ECSTASY DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL! Period! Had Cathy Isford heard that from the DEA as a truthful message passed from them on to her by her parents (instead of politically driven propaganda which bears little relation to the reality of the street or the medical facts) she likely could have been alive today. The LA Times also reported that Isford was no stranger to ecstasy and there was a letter to the editor published which also brought up harm reduction. Jim White from Oregon, Ohio wrote “ |
Well Director Hutchinson? Are you willing in the face of the truth to still claim harm reduction should be ignored?
I don’t want any more dead children from official mis-information specifically designed to make the use of currently illicit drugs as dangerous as possible. I urge the National Foundation of Women Legislators to pay attention to real people rather than a law enforcement group with a funding axe to grind. Look to the expertise from Mother’s Against Misuse and Abuse. Look to strategies that work with real families in real life.
Look outside the US where harm reduction is a positive public health policy especially concerning ecstasy. Just a week ago Chris Mullen expounded the virtues of harm reduction in the UK upon impending release of the Home Affairs select committee on drugs. It had already been decided to not stand in the way of telling the truth when also in The Guardian it was reported also on May 22nd, 2002 that "Ecstasy, the dance drug used by thousands every weekend, should be downgraded from the class A status it shares with heroin and cocaine, according to the results of a year-long official inquiry into Britain’s drug laws published today." Amazingly, the mortality rate from ecstasy, and not because it is a completely unregulated popular RecraDrug, is astonishingly low. It is reported that the number of ecstasy deaths in the UK is about 10 per year with more than 500,000 users on a weekend.
I urge the NFWL to look to medical professionals for truth about medicine and drugs. Law enforcement is no help. Would you ask your local police about the best heart medication? Will you ask the DEA for advice on contraception or the latest treatment for diabetes? Of course not. One looks to health professionals for help on health issues and to law enforcement for protection against crimes against the person or the persons property. Please remind yourself in the face of those trying to protect their budget that there is no Mamas for Murder. There is no Mamas for Rape. There is no July Coalition for the legalization of burglary. Reform advocates such as myself are not enemies. I just want a licensed someone between my children and ALL drugs. This is impossible under blanket prohibition of some popular RecraDrugs. Please help stop this farce and travesty. Before more kids die for someones idea of moral equivalence.