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Poll: 63 Percent Favor Medicinal Marijuana 
Posted by FoM on October 25, 2001 at 15:34:53 PT
By Johnathon Williams, The Morning News
Source: Southwest Times-Record 
The majority of Arkansans surveyed in a new poll favor the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, if its use is directed by a doctor. The third annual Arkansas Poll found that 63 percent of 767 state residents, questioned in a telephone survey, supported legalization of medicinal marijuana.Another 32 percent said they would not support such an action. The results of the poll were released Wednesday in Little Rock.
The poll is created by faculty at the University of Arkansas and conducted by telephone with the help of students. Students spent about eight days conducting telephone interviews before finishing Oct. 17.Todd Shields, the chairman of the UA political science department, said the medical marijuana question yielded the most surprising results of any asked in the poll. Support for the idea came equally from people of separate ages, gender and income levels, he said. The question was included in the poll because of the possibility that it could be a ballot issue in the 2002 election, he said.In other topics, poll participants have been asked to name the single most pressing problem facing Arkansans. War and terrorism was identified this year by 12.5 percent of those polled. Answers to that question were spontaneous; participants were not prompted with a list of possible answers. War or terrorism had no presence when the same question was asked by pollsters in 1999 and 2000.This year, it came in second, behind unemployment or a lack of jobs, which was chosen by 21.1 percent as the most pressing problem. Education was third with 12.4 percent. Immigration was called most pressing by 0.8 percent, or six people.Health care in the state was said to need some reform by 73 percent of those asked, with 25 percent saying the current system is broken and needs major work. Twenty-four percent said the system is working pretty well.Several questions in the poll were related to the role women play in state and federal politics. Forty-four percent of those polled said the country would be governed better if more women held political office. Thirty-three percent said it would be governed worse.Seventy-six percent said they expect to see a woman president of the United States in the next 10 to 25 years. Eleven percent said never.Asked to label their political loyalties, 27 percent described themselves as Republican, up from 23 percent in 1999. Democrat was picked by 33 percent, down from 35 percent in 1999. Thirty-one percent chose independent, with another 5 percent choosing a category labeled “Other.”The complete results of the Arkansas Poll can be viewed online at: http://plsc.uark.edu/arkpoll/ Source: Southwest Times-Record (AR)Author: Johnathon Williams, The Morning NewsPublished: October 25, 2001Copyright: 2001 The Donrey Media GroupContact: letters swtimes.comWebsite: http://www.swtimes.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmMarijuana Support at 30-Year Highhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10705.shtmlCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on October 26, 2001 at 12:20:39 PT
Important E-Mail from Jeff Jones
MEDICAL MARIJUANA EMERGENCY
DEA DECLARES WAR ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA, WIPES OUT LA CANNABIS CENTER
Protest at West Hollywood City Hall - 2 PM, Oct 26
Over 1000 patients left without medicine
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26. On the very afternoon that Congress was approving new restrictions on civil liberties for the federal government, scores of DEA agents descended on the LA Cannabis Resource Center, seizing all of the center's computers, files, bank account, plants, and medicine. The DEA cited the recent Supreme Court decision as justification for their action. No charges have been filed.
The raid effectively shut down the largest, best organized and most respected cannabis center in Southern California. West Hollywood city officials, who have strongly supported the club, are calling a press conference to protest the action at City Hall on Santa Monica Blvd at 2 PM.
- Dale Gieringer, Cal NORML
Jeff Jones
Officer of the City of Oakland for the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative
PO Box 70401 Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 832-5346 Fax (510) 986-0534 http://www.rxcbc.org --jeffj rxcbc.org
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Comment #3 posted by p4me on October 25, 2001 at 21:26:14 PT:
So what difference...
does it make what people think. Look at California that passed Proposition 215 in 1996 and still has as much as an 80% approval by the public. The legislature still has not passed the laws needed to set up guidelines to carry it out and the federal government is cracking down even so far as to take records out of doctors offices. I am still trying to find the agenda behind it all. I have to think it is the pill industry that wants to make it safe for us and then we can get a prescription and they can grow marijuana and get all that money.I expect Joe Six-Pack or Bible Billy not to be able figure out that the marijuana laws need reform, but I sure expect out elected leaders to be able to. I believe many politicians do know better and that the system is just corrupted. That is why I have to say again: Vote all incumbents down to dog catcher out of office. Out with the old and in with the new.
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on October 25, 2001 at 21:20:38 PT
The Baptists are slidin'
This must put the DEA's knickers in a knot.I consider this a Bill Clinton Smackdown! Right in the home state.
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Comment #1 posted by SirReal on October 25, 2001 at 21:08:24 PT:
The Bible Belt??
Seems that Arkansas' reputation of being a prison industry state, as well as the slickly covered up but emerging memories of Mena are surfacing and showing the true colors and leanings of the Bible Belt....at last
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