George Bush's Joint

october 1, 2003  01:50 pm
George Bush's Joint
Rebecca Schoenkopf grew up with a daddy who was an addict, so she knows first-hand the scourge of drugs. Still, she finds vexing the myriad hypocrisies of the war on drugs and thinks the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's $170 million budget is outrageous. OC Weekly sent Schoenkopf to the Office's panel discussion, "Marijuana & Kids," where she found reasonable looking "experts" who misused statistics and contradicted each other as well as their own press materials in their rush to demonize the evil weed.