detrimental, it would be declared “No Contest”. There is no known lethal level of TCH. There is no known death attributable directly to an overdose of TCH Deaths caused directly from alcohol doses every year range from youths to college students to street “lushes”. There is also no equivalent of the delerium tremens that often lead to an alcohol abusers death; no sudden pot induced rages akin to that caused by alcohol that any medical, or law-enforcement person knows as Alcohol-induced psychosis.Number of American Deaths Nationwide Per Year From DrugsTobacco.................340,000 TO 450,000 deathsAlcohol.................150,000 (not including 50% of all highway deaths and 65% of all murders) Aspirin.................... 180 to 1,000+ (including deliberate overdoses)Caffeine ................ 1,000 to 10,000 (from stress, ulcers and triggering irregular heartbeats, etc.) "Legal" drug overdoses...14,000-27,000 (deliberate or accidental, including from mixing with alcohol) Illegal drug overdoses.....3,800-5,200Marijuana............................0 world almanacs, life insurance actuarial (death) rates, and the last 20 years of U.S. Surgeon Generals' reports.(Figures are for 1994)from the federal government's Bureau of Mortality Statistics and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, et al.- the last complete yearon hand.)None of this should be taken to support the idea that marijuana is a benign substance only that it is on a par with alcohol and nicotineAnd should be classified as such.The zealots in the Drug War seem to believe that the legalization of marijuana would herald the beginning of the complete breakdown of our moral standards, and the presence of drugs in every area of our life. With all these facts in mind, I believe that a new approach to the “Drug Problem” is needed urgently. An impartial and extensive investigation is called for and our present policies examined to determine whether...
