At a time when Newt's troops have put the Fourth Amendment in their cross hairs for erasure of our forefathers' "original intent," "presumption of innocence" protection from police or government excessive uses of powers otherwise belong to the individual citizen as the backbone of our system of justice, and Attorney General Reno tries to find face-saving way in-the-public for the Youth Action Bravery Award selection of a young kid for saving an elderly lady from death in a house fire having been once convicted of a marijuana possession, we here in Centre County are treated to a "dog sweep for drugs" at an area high school by uniformed state troppers encouraged and applauded by the local Knight-Ridder Seedy-T.

Just as some of us were sighing in relief knowing that we wouldn't have Nixon kicking our issue around anymore in the coming presidential election if for no other reason than the "didn't inhale" line has largely flattened the debate we see the "draconian" drug war mindset being revived with a vengeance and tax money support in nearby Bellefonte. "All in the Public Interest" you understand, right? "Wrong!"

It might interest the local Grand Spring historical set knowing that the French government now has followed the German Supreme Court's ruling last year that "marijuana is hashish is hash oil is marijuana," is "not dangerous," "addictive" or any longer "criminal" while at the same time advancing global technology for hemp production anticipating an upsurge in natural fibers for GATT export 100 years after the British-India Hemp Commission's report made it unequivocally clear that "rope" is not "dope" and nobody who can use a library card whether they "toke" or not knows it today.

Schools are for instruction, not to be used as power pawns or tools in imposition of a failed and futile six-decade federal policy of "deterrence" on unsuspecting teens forced by law to attend and by the society to graduate if they want to be able to survive, regardless that alleged "no bigger or better problem."