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From our drug policy file archives. For educational purposes only, to inform the debate about drug policy. Some of the activities discussed here may be illegal, dangerous, stupid, or more than one of the above. (Please note that web links inside this document may be broken.)

Lair of the infamous tms: Drug Policy, war-on-drugs-refs
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 05:06:15 GMT Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: Re: Large cost from cocaine use claimed The following is an excerpt from, "A Quick Fix for the Drug War" by Patricia Edmonds which appeared in the June 3 Seattle Times on Page A16. [...much discussion of drug war omitted....] Still, those interviewed for this article generally agreed on one thing: its a perilous mix when leaders try to make war on drugs, law on drugs and political hay on drugs at the same time. On this point, a favorite cautionary tale concerns the 375,000 crack babies. The story begins with Ira Chasnoff, a Chicago pediatritian, and his 1988 study of 154,856 births in 36 hospitals. Through interviews and tests, he learned that in 11 percent of the births, the babies had been exposed to some quantity of some illegal drug at some time during pregnancy. Chasnoff did not say the babies were born addicted, or afflicted. He did not say which mothers used cocaine daily and which used marijuana one weekend. He said: some quantity of some illegal drugs was used during pregnancy. Then Chasnoff did the arithmatic. If there was drug exposure in even 10 percent of the 3.75 million births in the U.S. annually, that would be 375,000 babies. "That," Chasnoff said, "is as far as it went". [...goes on to detail how William Bennett used this study to show that there were 375,000 crack babies in the U.S./year...] ***************************** Article Separation ***************************** From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 05:12:12 GMT Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: Network TV Excerpt from "Can the rich and famous talk America out of Drugs?" by Richard L. Berke in the New York Times, November 12 1989, sec 4 page E5 (L or N) col 4. [...discussion of brainwashing tactics by media omitted...] Beyond the advertisment, the networks have all adopted formal or informal guidelines to avoid glorifying drug use on their programs. On NBC shows, for example, every drug-related criminal has to suffer serious consequences in the end, said Rosalyn Weinman, the network's vice president for program standards and community relations. "We've returned scripts where we very specifically say, 'this particular character has to suffer more in the end,'" she said. [...further discussion of brainwashing tactics by media omitted...] ******************************** Article Separation **************************
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