Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Those who think tougher drug laws will solve the drug problem need to learn the relevant history and economics. For fifty-six years (1915-1971) America was alone in drug prohibition, while Europe stayed with legal drugs. It was America that developed the drug problem. (Drug Addicts Are Human Beings, by Henry Smith Williams, MD, 1929; The Drug Hang-up, Rufus King, 1972; and Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay Epstein, 1977) Doctors used to keep their patients’ habits stabilized. Their patients continued to be successful in their marital, p...
A Dec. 3 letter may have been a little over the top. The writer was a formal observer of the vote counting in Whitman County. She said, “Fraud was very apparent here.” The observations she cited did not support that. If she had said that the conditions that she observed were perfect for concealing fraud, I would agree with her. I observed similar conditions when I was an observer of the count at a recent election. The only difference was, we had to sit with our backs to the far window. Like the writer said, it’s so darned far away you could...
