Cannabis News on 15th August, 2004

• Cannabis 'preferred To Other Medications'
  Sydney Morning Herald
  

  Nearly two-thirds of people using marijuana for medical reasons had decreased or stopped taking other medications early, results of a State Government survey show.

• End The Overkill for Marijuana
  Daily Herald, Editorial
  

  You don’t swat flies with 16-pound sledge hammers. The hammer might kill the fly, but it will also do a lot of damage to the furniture.

• U.S. Reassesses Role in Afghan Drug War
  Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times
  

  The White House is planning a major shift in the U.S. military’s counternarcotics role in Afghanistan, with a leading option involving the first-time use of American troops to attack opium-distribution points.

• Therapeutic Use of Cannabis No Myth
  Bob Newland, Rapid City Journal
  

  "Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” When Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger said that in 1943, he was trying to get Congress to give his agency more money to fight the largely unknown menace, “marijuana.”