Reader Response Dan Stern ’79
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Send feedbackIn his letter, Phillip Blackerby ’72 nitpicks Jane Sasseen’s statement about Schedule I classification, pointing out that “the criteria for being on Schedule I…do not compare one drug to another” (“Tricky Business,” What Do You Think?). But he commits a far more invidious solecism by comparing “leafy marijuana” [sic] to other substances, saying: “Like alcohol and tobacco, it is not benign.” Setting aside the fact that weed users eschew the leaf for the bud, cannabis is so much less a public health nuisance than alcohol and tobacco that it is absurd to put them in the same category, albeit not as absurd as it is to put cannabis in the same category as heroin.
Dan Stern ’79 Quinque, Va. [email protected]
