John Walters is an idiot and ought to be ridiculed until everyone who doesn’t realize it learns. From the Detroit Free Press

John Walters, a Michigan native who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana has no legitimate medical use. Medical marijuana laws simply “make it easier for addicts to stay addicted,” he said.

This is the same John Walters who was described by Larry Campbell the Canadian senator and ex drug-officer as a “moron”.

“It’s all ideology — if they’re wrong on this, then what else are they wrong on? They won’t even allow hemp. That’s how stupid these people are — and they are stupid. I describe [White House drug czar John] Walters as a moron, and he is truly a moron.

“I like to base things that I do on scientific fact. If a scientific fact said marijuana is a gateway, addictive drug that causes great harm to society, I’d be [in favour of] life sentences.

“But it’s not and we know that. There simply is no evidence to it.

“In the United States, they have more people in jail per capita than anywhere in the world, and the majority of them are in there on drug-related charges.

Wed 15 Oct 2008