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Newsbrief:
Reefer
Madness
Threatens
Hawkeye
State,
Iowa
Drug
Czar
Warns
12/17/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/367/hawkeye.shtml
Meth may get all the publicity
in the Midwest, but marijuana is a dangerous and escalating threat, Iowa's
top drug-fighter warned December 10. In comments made for Iowa Public
Television's "Iowa Press" program, which aired Sunday, Marvin Van Haaften,
director of the Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, was hitting a
favorite theme of latter-day pot foes: It's not your father's marijuana.
"Our people in addiction
treatment for marijuana is going up," Van Haaften warned. "It is
to the point now where I think we have to take a real serious look at marijuana
again for its addictive qualities," Van Haaften said. The corn state
drug czar added that investigators are regularly seizing weed containing
24% THC and some plants being developed could contain as much as 37% THC.
Either Iowa farmers are applying
their agricultural know-how to weed like there's no tomorrow or Van Haaften
is talking through his hat. According to the DEA, the average potency
of kind bud -- high grade marijuana -- seized in the US was around 12%
in 2002, the most recent year for which it has figures.
Parents who grew up in the
days of hippiedom smoking commercial Mexican weed may not understand the
threat posed by today's kind bud, Van Haaften said, though not in those
precise terms. "When I was in the Army in 1963 in Fort Reilly, Kansas,
it was at best 2% pure," Van Haaften said. That's what he gets for
buying Kansas ditch weed.
-- END --
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Issue #367
-- 12/17/04
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Would
Not
Torture
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Convicted
on
50
Counts,
Faces
Life
in
Prison
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Research
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to
FDA
Approval
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Protecting
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in
World's
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and
Threat
of
World's
First
Lawsuit
Against
the
Practice
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Marijuana
Crop
Founder
on
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Need,
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Says
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