Reporter uncovers legalization plot; drug czar not surprised The Detroit Free Press printed an interview with the drug czar on Wednesday. The answers are bad enough, but the questions expose the limited knowledge base of the reporter.
Among the probing queries:
What are your thoughts on Canada's efforts to legalize marijuana?
Legalize? Hmm, I must have missed that news, and I try to pay attention to this stuff. Maybe he was talking about the unfortunate decrim plan that has been kicked about by the Canadian government for more than a year. Instead of correcting the record, John Walters carries on with the pot hype spiel unfazed.
"I've talked to Canadian officials about this. I think we have somewhat conveyed some of the ignorance we've had in America about marijuana -- calling it the soft drug, the drug that everybody uses. But the increase in potency and the beginning use at a younger age has contributed to the fact that 23 percent of Americans we have to treat for dependency or abuse are teenagers and the vast majority is dependent on marijuana. The biggest concern we have is not to tell another sovereign country about how to handle their domestic policy. We're here to share information."
[Emphasis added.] Of course, the drug czar conveys some of the ignorance we've had in America about marijuana everywhere he goes, and he does it again here. But let's give credit where credit is due. He couldn't do such an effective job without his friends in the mainstream press.
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