Alcohol promoting drug czar strikes again

Iowa Drug Czar Steve Lukan (one joint of mar­i­jua­na is equal to drink­ing a keg of beer — Legal drug indus­try wants you dead) is at it again, this time with the help of Mus­ca­tine Coun­ty Attor­ney Allen Oster­gren.

Oster­gren told the Mus­ca­tine Jour­nal, “I may go home tonight and have a glass of bour­bon,” Oster­gren said. “I’m not going to get drunk. Plen­ty of peo­ple use alco­hol respon­si­bly. The whole point of mar­i­jua­na and oth­er drugs is to get impaired.”

Rep. Mark Lof­gren, R‑Muscatine, invit­ed Steve Lukan, direc­tor of the Gov­er­nor’s Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy, and Peter Komen­dows­ki, pres­i­dent of the group Partnership@DrugFreeIowa.org, as well as local law enforce­ment offi­cials and Mus­ca­tine Coun­ty Attor­ney Alan Oster­gren to a com­mu­ni­ty dis­cus­sion on the direc­tion of drug pol­i­cy in Iowa.

Accord­ing to the Mus­ca­tine Jour­nal, “The speak­ers may have out­num­bered the audi­ence  of three, but the group still stayed on task and pro­mot­ed their mes­sage.”

Kudos to the cit­i­zens of Mus­ca­tine for hav­ing the wis­dom to stay away from these pro­po­nents of mis­in­for­ma­tion.