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Deputy director of NORML is blunt about marijuana reform
COLUMBIA — Over $1 trillion has been spent in the past 40 years to fight the war on drugs, "but the federal government admits that none of this works," said Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, citing the Associated Press.
Armentano spoke to over 30 people Thursday in MU's Arts & Sciences Building, delivering a presentation titled "The Fight For Cannabis." He condemned federal drug prohibition efforts and said that the federal policy on marijuana is a "culture war."
"It has to do with the image in people's minds as to who uses marijuana and singling them out because they engage in behaviors where they look a certain way where a minority of the population doesn't like," Armentano said. "And that's what the war on marijuana is about."
Link: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/n...cle_59120bbc-8402-11e5-b612-6feacb4c5d6a.html
COLUMBIA — Over $1 trillion has been spent in the past 40 years to fight the war on drugs, "but the federal government admits that none of this works," said Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, citing the Associated Press.
Armentano spoke to over 30 people Thursday in MU's Arts & Sciences Building, delivering a presentation titled "The Fight For Cannabis." He condemned federal drug prohibition efforts and said that the federal policy on marijuana is a "culture war."
"It has to do with the image in people's minds as to who uses marijuana and singling them out because they engage in behaviors where they look a certain way where a minority of the population doesn't like," Armentano said. "And that's what the war on marijuana is about."
Link: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/n...cle_59120bbc-8402-11e5-b612-6feacb4c5d6a.html
