From: [c--o--n] at [dsmnet.com] (Carl E. Olsen)
Newsgroups: alt.hemp,alt.hemp.politics,alt.drugs.pot,talk.politics.drugs,alt.drugs
Subject: Glen Schwarz - Little Rock NORML
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:30:05

16 ARKANSAS TIMES - APRIL 14, 1995 
 
EDITORIAL 
 
More drug madness 
 
     Neither the death of police officers nor the mangling of 
civil liberties slows the drug warriors in their brutal rounds.  
Nor does the enrichment of drug-war profiteers.  If America must 
be sacrificed to save her, the war-on-drugs crowd is prepared to 
swing the ax. 
     Nationally and locally, Democratic and Republican 
politicians compete in proposing the most severe penalties for 
activities that should be none of the government's business.  
Police routinely break down doors hoping to catch someone in 
possession of the mildest intoxicant known to man, a substance 
much less threatening to public health than tobacco or alcohol.  
On a good day, no one is killed.  Then police use the searches to 
excuse further abuses of power. 
     When Little Rock police raided the home of Glen Schwarz, 
treasurer of the local chapter of the National Organization for 
the Reform of Marijuana Laws, they seized the chapter's 
membership list.  The drug war supersedes rights of privacy and 
freedom of association, along with every other freedom.  The 
police eventually returned the membership list, claimed they 
hadn't copied it, and weren't even really very interested in it.  
Skeptics remain.  Such lists have a way of inciting drug warriors 
to further aggression.  If copies of the NORML membership list 
are not now circulating widely among the Central Arkansas 
constabulary, we will be very surprised. 
     Meanwhile, the really dangerous drug traders are reloading, 
readying to kill again for the inflated profits guaranteed by 
drug prohibition.  Zero tolerance of drugs means maximum 
casualties.  Legalize marijuana and you save lives, futures and 
freedoms.