Hey John Edwards, you need to explain why you think adult use of alcohol doesn't send the wrong message to children but adult use of marijuana does. Alcohol easily kills more people in a day than marijuana does in a year (if it kills any), not to mention the lives saved by marijuana because it provides a safer alternative to alcohol. Get real buddy. Children need honesty from adults, not bullshit.

Here's the message, kids: make lots of money, buy some friends in high places, and you can say or do absolutely anything you want, no matter how many people it hurts, and no matter how absurd it is to the majority of Americans. As long as you're sure to use the phrase "for the children", you'll not only get away with it, you'll be honored as a hero!

How nice that the leaders of the most powerful nation on Earth are willing to send messages to my children!

Unfortunately, the message that police are not to be trusted, but feared and avoided at all costs was already sent overnight delivery by the local Gestapo.

God forbid that the leaders of a self-proclaimed "Christian" nation send a message of tolerance and forgiveness, or that the leaders of the "Land of the Free" send a message of individual freedom.

And thats the last we will hear about PROHIBITION 2 from the masterdebaters. Unless they are continuously challenged with questions about the WoDs, which is a third rail in this campaign.If you touch it you are dead. This needs to be changed to; if you don't touch it, you are dead. Of course credit is given to Kucinich, Gravel, and that republican guy, who's actually a libertarian.

In high schools, the problem is severe. In our area alone, students are being expelled for just talking about marijuana. One student was recently expelled because he might have sold someone marijuana over the week-end.
Our son, who had never had any discipline problems at school nor any arrests, was recently expelled. This nightmare began due to a "suspicion" that he "might" have "used" marijuana the night before and that he "might" be bringing some to school. His car was searched by the assisstant principal and 2 possible marijuana seeds were found on the rear floor board of his vehicle along with SEVERAL peices of yard debris. No marijuana was found. We have yet to receive a lab analysis to even prove that this is marijuana. Our son did not bring marijuana to school, he did not have any marijuana in his car or person, and this could have been birdseed for all we know. Yet, the school board agreed with the school principal and asst-principal and he was expelled for one year with alternative placement at another school. (the other school is the one that used to be reserved for multiple offenders and problem children) Our son's junior year of high school has now been ruined for 2 possible seeds!!! It seems that the school board and administrators have their own rules and ways of interpreting state statutes. They are hiding behind a zero tolerance policy...a policy that was meant to help the students. Our son must endure standing before a judge, etc. for something that most adults would not even be arrested for. Because we fought the school board's recommendation, he was officially charged with possession of marijuana. They do not distinguish between possession and constructive possession. We are at present trying to find anyone who can help stop this abuse of our children today. This practice is happening all over America and especially in our town.

I can remember a time in America when you could be a kid and not be arrested for it.

Giordano

It is also important to note that teen use of marijuana is MUCH lower in the Netherlands, where marijuana is de facto legalized.

get another haircut, idiot...

Prohibition truely is the GATEWAY TO TYRANNY. The US gov./ military says that the terrorists use women and children as "shields". Here the same thing is happening. Throw the kids to the lions to protect a failed policy.

Actually, in Arizona, at least, an adult CAN go to prison for a few seeds on the floor of the car; especially an adult with prior convictions and the services of a court-appointed "defense" attorney.

Which doesn't change the fact that what's going on with Anonymous' kid is an outrage. Unfortunately, it's not an isolated incident -- with minor variations, it's going on all over the country, and it won't stop until parents band together and DEMAND that it stop.

Watch your television sets at HDNet,The Dan Rather show some time soon.Dan's taking a long look at Vancouver's infamous DTES and it should prove interresting,although I doubt he'll get too deep into the scene here.If nothing else,the Olympics are shinning a spotlight on the seedier side of "the most beautiful place on earth".What can you say about the poorest postal code in Canada?It co-exists with all the opulence that exists all around it.I've watched for thirty five plus years while it's gone from bad to really disgusting.If you want to see the drug war in all it's glory,don't miss this one.

So Mr. Edwards, do you tell your children there's a santa claus?

I just read an article in my local paper that JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY just released a study citing the worst schools in the nation: labeled as dropout factories.
Our local Wasilla High was listed as fourth in the nation of these dropout factories. The local principal, Mr Probasco, has for years been expelling and showing zero tolerance to "bad kids" who are even suspected users. He has been using Hitlerish tactics to purify his student body of any suspected taint. He has even insisted on felonies given to any in possession on school grounds. A practice that has slowly died (as many lawyers and sitting judges are also users and sympathetic).
Mr Probasco's reaction in the newspaper was one of shock and outrage that what he had percieved as a model school was labelled a "dropout factory" by so prestigious an institution.
Intolerance does come back to haunt the perpetrator, but not usually so publicly.

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