cannabisnews.com: Drug Czar Opposes Prop 203
Drug Czar Opposes Prop 203
Posted by CN Staff on October 09, 2002 at 18:45:57 PT
By Bud Foster
Source: KOLD - TV
The nation's drug czar was in Tucson this afternoon calling on voters to reject the medical marijauna proposition. John Walters is the first of many Washington officials who will come here to argue against propostion 203. Arizona voters passed medical marijuana twice in the past six years but it has never taken effect because federal law supercedes state law.Walters said he doesn't believe Arizonans will pass medical marijuana a third time, even though the polls show it with an early 20 point lead. This time, the law is more liberal than the ones in the past and that's by design..
For instance, this law requires the department of public safety to hand out marijuana to the sick people who qualify for it. Federal officials say making state police drug dealers is just going too far.After a tour of the Compass Healthcare Vida Serena drug treatment facility on North Stone, and flanked by two of Pima County's cops, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and County Attorney Barbara LaWall, the drug czar said he felt Arizonan's were duped in '96 and again in 1998 when Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed medical marijuana. Nearly 70% of the voters approved it.But Walters told a small crowd, "no less a figure than Abraham Lincoln said you can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. That's because we believe truth has a higher status." Across the street from the press conference a handful of 203 supporters questioned whether the government is telling the truth.. The Libertarian Party has adopted drug legalization as their platform but say the marijuana issue is not about legalization but about medicine.State Senate candidate and Libertarian Kimberly Swanson says "study after study shows medical marijuana helps aids patients eat so they don't waste away. The same can be said of cancer patients. In many cases medical marijuana absolutely saves lives.Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Salmon took the stage here in Tucson since his Democratic challenger, Janet Naplolitano failed to show. They did take the stage together in Phoenix earlier in the day to oppose 203. Salmon called prop 203 a wacky propostion. "They have a track record of duping people time and time again with their big money.. They're calling it something like medicalization of marijuana..when their agenda is to legalize all drugs."We asked Walters if the Arizona voters pass it, will the federal government do what it's done the past two times, which is, refuse to allow it to become state law. Walters was non-commital. He says it's something the government has not discussed yet because they believe it will not pass this time.. 203 remains about 20 percentage points ahead right now. Source: KOLD TV - Channel 13 (Tucson, AZ) Author: Bud FosterPublished: October 9, 2002Copyright 2000 - 2002 WorldNow & KOLDWebsite: http://www.kold.com/Related Articles:'Drug Czar' Denounces Proposition 203 http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14402.shtmlDrug Czar Blasts Arizona Pot Proposition http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14399.shtmlBush's Drug Czar Coming To Tucson http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14380.shtml
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Comment #9 posted by st1r_dude on October 10, 2002 at 07:12:08 PT
wally's getting duped
by his own irrational thinking..."We asked Walters if the Arizona voters pass it, will the federal government do what it's done the past two times, which is, refuse to allow it to become state law. Walters was non-commital. He says it's something the government has not discussed yet because they believe it will not pass this time..."203 remains about 20 percentage points ahead right now.This shows how unprepared the feds really are...we the people are finally showing the feds how deeply buried their heads are up their arses...i cannot WAIT to hear wally's comments when this passes. hopefully there will be a strong turnout of 18-50 year olds on voting day. most of the 50-70 year olds are brainwashed to the point of no return on cannabis issues and will vote against question 9.just reality, folks. not trying to peg the seniors of this country, just expressing my own statistical evaluation.st1d
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Comment #8 posted by malleus on October 10, 2002 at 05:39:02 PT
John Pee reminds me of someone
The kid in school who always told tall tales to make himself look important, but everyone knew he was a BSer. But the kid was so wrapped up in feeling self important he never tumbled to the fact everyone thought him a fool. He thought the poeple laughing at him were laughing with him.Can you hear us laughing, Johnny?
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Comment #7 posted by karkulus on October 10, 2002 at 01:22:54 PT
funny he should quote Lincoln..
since he had little regard for the Constitution either(Ooo,Me politically incorrect!!)
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Comment #6 posted by DdC on October 09, 2002 at 23:42:58 PT
Thanks Reverend Nick...
I've been looking for that quote for quite a while...Peace, Love and Liberty or D.E.Ath...DdCWashington's August 7 diary entry...May 12-13 1765: "Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp."August 7, 1765: "--began to seperate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late."The Hashish Club
http://www.algroup.co.uk/wpb/hashish.htmAmerican High Society Compilation
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Comment #5 posted by Reverend Nick on October 09, 2002 at 22:06:47 PT:
Abe's Favorite Pastimes?
Ein weiteres "Lincoln-Zitat" scheint eine noch gröbere Fälschung zu sein: "Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." (Abraham Lincoln, 1855) from a letter to the President of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany.
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Comment #4 posted by DdC on October 09, 2002 at 21:23:33 PT
Wally is Despicable, cynical, and shameful...
"Despicable," "cynical," and "shameful" were some of the words for the country's drug-control chief Wednesday...Drug Czar Blasts Arizona Pot Proposition
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14399.shtml
U.S. "Drug Czar" John P. Walters claimed Arizona residents don't understand the dangers of Proposition 203. Walters said he doesn't believe Arizonans will pass medical marijuana a third time, even though the polls show it with an early 20 point lead.“expect the people of Arizona to be stupid,” U.S. drug czar John Walters said he doesn't believe Arizonans will pass medical marijuana a third time, even though the polls show it with an early 20 point lead.“They are plying on a kind of ignorance that is our job to correct,” Walters said he doesn't believe Arizonans will pass medical marijuana a third time, even though the polls show it with an early 20 point lead."Americans do not understand this, and these initiatives depend on that ignorance," Walters said he doesn't believe Arizonans will pass medical marijuana a third time, even though the polls show it with an early 20 point lead.Proposition 203 also would require the state police to give confiscated marijuana free to people with a doctor's recommendation, though police say there's no way they'll do that.
What, obey the law?Drug Czar Opposes Prop 203
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14403.shtml
But Walters told a small crowd, "no less a figure than Abraham Lincoln said you can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. "We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861 Abraham Lincoln said that "Prohibition . . . goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legistlation." scroll down to comment #3 for entire quote...Jefferson vs old czarbarry
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/27/27340.gifThat's because we believe truth has a higher status." ACS - Division of Analytical Chemistry - DAC Awards -Urine Testers...
John P. Walters 1980 Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal. -- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"Philanthropy Roundtable Taxshelters to FRCn P.D.F.A. John P. Walters President
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"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not better for it." -- Abraham Lincoln The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864, Bush's New Drug Czar?
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Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.Our American Common Law
http://www.svpvril.com/OACL.htmlU.S. "Drug Czar" John P. Walters"Is a kind of cynical insult to the citizens of this state,"Pot Use No Higher Among California Kids!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread206.shtmlKids Can Understand Pot Abuse, Medical Use
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14284.shtmlAnti-Pot Politics a Disservice To The Ill
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9754.shtmlThe Electric Emperor
http://www.electricemperor.comIt is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it -- James Madison."Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."-- John F. Kennedy"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759."I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787Walters the Terrorist
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Comment #3 posted by Prime on October 09, 2002 at 20:49:42 PT
Honest Abe...
Let us not forget Abe's other famous quote you boot licking child fornicator."Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
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Comment #2 posted by Prime on October 09, 2002 at 20:47:10 PT
OMG...
This is priceless. So, Mr. Walters, the people of Arizona were "duped" into voting 70% for MMJ... TWICE? In other words, the people or Arizona were to stupid to understand what they were voting for. Only through your keen insight will the mindless droves of the Desert State see the truth.This is great. Lets insult them into voting our way. What an inspiring intellectual this fellow is. I cant believe NASA let him get away.So maybe the people of Arizona will be less stupid this time around eh Johnny boy.I cant wait till you show up in Nevada, you better keep all those cops around you, cause they are gonna eat you for lunch.
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Comment #1 posted by knox42897 on October 09, 2002 at 18:59:38 PT:
PROTEST RALLY TOMORROW
Who: NRLE, the campaign to pass Question 9What: A rally to support Question 9. Assemblywoman Chris Giunchiliangi will
be tapping a segment opposite the Federal Drug Czar on John
Ralston's show, "day one" on channel 8.When: THURSDAY, October 10, 2002. 11:00 a.m. PRESS EVENT.
Supporters please arrive by 10:15 a.m.Where: Near the Channel 8 Studios. 3228 Channel 8 Drive, the cross streets
are paradise and convention center drive. We will meet outside the
parking garage and assemble on the sidewalk near the studios. We will
validate your parking ticket.Why: To show our support for Question 9 and courageous spokespeople like
Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani. Nevadans DON'T appreciate the
Federal Government coming into our state and telling us how to vote on
Question 9. This is YOUR chance to be part of this historic effort. Look
professional-- the dress is business casual. We will have signs on hand
for supports to wave.
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