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Posted by FoM on July 18, 1999 at 17:31:29 PT Source: SF Gate 
Editor -- I am writing regarding Debra Saunders' July 11 column in which she cites numerous reasons why she does not want Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah to run for president.
A March 1999 article in Rolling Stone, ``The Politics of Pot -- A Government in Denial,'' noted that in the 1970s the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association and the National Council of Churches all endorsed the decriminalization of marijuana along with President Jimmy Carter. As to Hatch, the article says, ``In October 1977, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to decriminalize marijuana. But the committee reversed its decision a week later, after strenuous objections by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.'' I don't want a president who not only wants to continue escalating the war on drugs despite overwhelming evidence that it has failed, but whose actions have perpetuated harmful policies that now result in the arrest annually of thousands of our fellow citizens for marijuana possession. Gary Storck Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #1 posted by Tom Paine on July 18, 1999 at 18:48:15 PT |
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