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Editorial
Get the dope
out of the White House
This magazine is the outgrowth
of a political movement that
came into being two years ago
when courageous individuals from
a cross-section of religious denominationsj
political parties and
walks of life formed the Michigan
Anti-Drug Coalition. Within
months of the first Detroit meeting
in December 1978, fraternal
organizations had sprung up in
some 15 U.S. states. In October of
last year, these crystallized as
America's National Anti-Drug Coalition.
Since then, an international
movement has been set into motion
around to stop drugs at the
top—at the level of the oligarchical
networks who use drugs to maintain
their political power, and the
politicians who abet this supranational
network—"Dope, Inc."
The initial impulse for founding
the Anti-Drug Coalition in Detroit
was to turn the tide against the
legalization of drugs that had
spread at an accelerating rate
since Jimmy Carter, an avowed
supporter of marijuana "decriminalization,"
came into office. But
drugs--the pestilence that is
claiming the minds and in many
cases the lives of America's
youth—are merely the "glue" holding
together an organized conspiracy
to destroy the moral fabric of
the republic and turn this nation
into one vast Jonestown.
If this sounds extreme, consider
what has occurred over the past
three and one half years of the
Carter administration.
The facts of the matter
In Washington, D.C., there is a
"private" outfit called the Drug
Abuse Council, an unofficial policy
arm of the Carter White House.
The DAC has just issued its 1980
report which calls on Americans to
learn to live with psychotropic
drugs.
Simultaneously, the Carter administration
is encouraging the
large pharmaceutical companies to
make THC capsules—using the
chemical ingredient available in
marijuana cigarettes that produces
the "high." But the experimental
medical evidence of the destructive
impact of THC in small
quantities on the brain and reproductive
system is documented by
Dr. Nahas in his article in this
issue. One can only conclude that
in pushing THC legalization, the
Carter administration does not
want there to be another generation
of Americans.
Consumption of marijuana,
hashish and cocaine has risen to
all-time highs, and is still going
up. According to the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare's
Seventh Annual Report to
Congress (April, 1979), the number
of high school seniors who used
marijuana daily jumped by onehalf,
from 6 to 9 percent, between
1975 and 1977. A University of
Michigan study shows that cocaine
use by high school seniors has doubled
since 1975—it is now 12 percent.
Heroin epidemic
Most horrifying of all are reports
that have recently come to
the attention of National Anti-
Drug Coalition investigators that
2 War on Drugs / June 1980