News (Media Awareness Project) - CN ON: PUB LTE: Compelling Pot Smokers To Resort To Heroin |
| Title: | CN ON: PUB LTE: Compelling Pot Smokers To Resort To Heroin |
| Published On: | 2001-05-07 |
| Source: | Toronto Sun (CN ON) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-26 16:22:09 |
COMPELLING POT SMOKERS TO RESORT TO HEROIN
Premier Mike Harris has failed to consider that driving drug use
underground only compounds the problem. The plan to coerce welfare
recipients into drug treatment will have the perverse effect of forcing
addicts to suffer in silence. The drug tests used to enforce this misguided
policy could very well compel pot smokers to resort to heroin and crack to
avoid detection. Marijuana is the only drug that stays in the body long
enough to make urinalysis a deterrent. Harder drugs are water-soluble and
exit the human body within 48 hours or less.
Robert Sharpe
Program Officer, Lindesmith Center/ Drug Policy Foundation
Washington, DC
(There's an argument we hadn't heard before)
Premier Mike Harris has failed to consider that driving drug use
underground only compounds the problem. The plan to coerce welfare
recipients into drug treatment will have the perverse effect of forcing
addicts to suffer in silence. The drug tests used to enforce this misguided
policy could very well compel pot smokers to resort to heroin and crack to
avoid detection. Marijuana is the only drug that stays in the body long
enough to make urinalysis a deterrent. Harder drugs are water-soluble and
exit the human body within 48 hours or less.
Robert Sharpe
Program Officer, Lindesmith Center/ Drug Policy Foundation
Washington, DC
(There's an argument we hadn't heard before)
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