[Infowarrior] - US Drug Czar: Weed growers are terrorists and help other terrorists

[Richard Forno]

Drug czar gives warning
Federal official calls marijuana growers dangerous terrorists

By Dylan Darling (Contact)
Friday, July 13, 2007

The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their
"reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist
threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.

John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and
tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other
terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties.
Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an
update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort.

"Don't buy drugs. They fund violence and terror," he said.

After touring gardens raided this week in Shasta County, Walters said the
officers who are destroying the gardens are performing hard, dangerous work
in rough terrain. He said growers have been known to have weapons, including
assault rifles.

"These people are armed; they're dangerous," he said. He called them
"violent criminal terrorists."

Walters, whose official title is director of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy, said too many people write off marijuana as
harmless. "We have kind of a 'reefer blindness,' " he said.

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