cannabisnews.com: We Don't Need Police Peddling Marijuana We Don't Need Police Peddling Marijuana Posted by CN Staff on October 30, 2002 at 11:39:59 PT By William J. Bennett, Special for The Republic Source: Arizona Republic Never has the capacity of law enforcement to do its job in America been more strained than in the year since Sept. 11, 2001. Charged with ever-increasing responsibility to protect the homeland, police have their hands full investigating crimes potentially linked to organized terror. But now, in Arizona, it is proposed that officers take their focus off protecting Americans in order to run a handout program - and it's not handing out bike safety tips or meals at a soup kitchen. They are being asked to distribute marijuana. Citizens of Arizona will vote Tuesday on Proposition 203. If passed, this policy would require state police to distribute marijuana to anyone with a medical recommendation - not even a prescription - that marijuana might mitigate some condition as minor as muscle spasms or nausea.Handouts in doses of up to 2 ounces a month for a year would be authorized (an estimated 200 joints can be rolled from 2 ounces). Police would supply the demand with confiscated marijuana. With no idea of the purity of these seized stashes, the Arizona Department of Public Safety effectively would be required to set up a marijuana-sanitizing system to avoid lawsuits over handouts from bad batches. William J. Bennett was the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and a former U.S. secretary of education. Note: Please refrain from posting the rest of the article because of Copyright Issues. Thank You.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.arizonarepublic.com/opinions/articles/1030bennett30.htmlSource: Arizona Republic (AZ) Author: William J. Bennett, Special for The RepublicPublished: October 30, 2002Copyright: 2002 The Arizona Republic Contact: opinions arizonarepublic.com Website: http://www.arizonarepublic.com/ Related Articles:Doctors Free To Discuss Pot Use with Patientshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14604.shtmlPot Plan a Smoke Screen, Foes Say http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14466.shtmlDrug Czar Urges 'No' Vote On Pot Proposition http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14424.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #4 posted by p4me on October 30, 2002 at 12:51:57 PT My general feeling on Bennett I generally raise the issue to people that think Bennett is so wonderful, if Bennett is such a genius why hasn'.t he fixed things already. The WOSD needs to be rethought from the ground up and these idiots that say onwardt to imprisonment, need to be called idiots. Bennett has aq lifetime of experience seeing the failure of his thinking at a huge cost to society and yet he says onward. In my book Bennett is an idiot.1 [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by BGreen on October 30, 2002 at 12:17:41 PT You could have snipped everything after William B* because it's one united voice spewing the same lame propaganda.Blech!In two weeks I'll be in Amsterdam. Screw this country and its leaders! [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by DdC on October 30, 2002 at 12:17:08 PT Fiction writers trying to buy laws and reality... We Don't Need Police Peddling Marijuana No Bill, Just Cocaine...Tough-on-Crime Message Becomes Joke in Las Vegas http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14602.shtmlRelax Your Muscles as Much as Possible' http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14571.shtmlSnipping Bendit articles is doing us a favor FoM...US: New Bush Office Seeks Closer Ties to Church Groups and wrote a 1996 book about the war against crime, "Body Count," with John P. Walters and William J. Bennett, the former education secretary and drug czar. Mr ... http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n165/a03.html?183 Shame quoted from Body Count, by William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., & John P. Walters, Simon & Shuster (1996) Pg 56: Last updated May 23, 1997 Copyright 1997 ... http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/shame.html Shaming is the purposeful assault on the soul, that inner spirit which animates the person. When shamed, the victim marshals its resources to protect the soul.LP News Sep95 - Talking points: A closer look at the . In a press release condemning the program, former deputy drug czar John P. Walters reported that it features 'the story of Jim Montgomery, who, we are told ... http://www.lp.org/lpn/9509-talking.html Onward Christian Soldier (washingtonpost.com) Together, Bennett and DiIulio wrote the 1996 book "Body Count," along with John P. Walters, director of the Council on Crime in America. The book was "a ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54639-2001Feb25.html ReUS: WEEK OF: 07/26/1996 Legalization by Virginia Postrel of the Reason Foundation. Big Government Junkies, by John P. Walters, from Policy Review. Why You Can Hate Drugs and Still ... http://www.reinventing.com/brfw4t68s1.html Bush Religion Initiative headed by CIA Think Tank and wrote a 1996 book about the war against crime, "Body Count," with John P. Walters and William J. Bennett, the former education secretary and drug czar. ... http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n165/a03.html?183 AC New & Features: Table of Contents Handbook of Instrumental Techniques for Analytical Chemistry is reviewed by John P. Walters of St. Olaf College. Books received. 273 A Product Review. ... http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/ancham-a/70/i07/toc/toc_i07.html Punishment in American History Bennett, William John, John J. DiIulio, and John P. Walters. Body Count: Moral Poverty--And How to Win America’s War Against Crime and Drugs. New York: Simon ... http://www.yale.edu/syllabi/fall99/amst403a.o.html Evan Rosenthal Professional Paper According to John P. Walters, acting director of ONDCP, he testified that President Clinton has promoted policies that reversed or accelerated the reversal of ... http://www.unlv.edu/Colleges/Urban/pubadmin/papers/erosenthal.htm The Abuse of Power (Praeger 1990). William J. Bennett, John J. Dilulio, John P. Walters, Body Count: Moral Poverty – and How to Win America’s War Against ... http://faculty.erau.edu/mashalis/SS331.html Association of Petroleum Geochemical Explorationists ... Soil Gas Helium Surveys for Petroleum Exploration in Kansas - John P. Walters and Kenneth R. Sundberg. ... http://www.geotech.org/survey/apge/apge8.html Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy: Center Activities University "Against Liberal Drugs-Talk: Citizenship and Moral Responsibility" John P. Walters, The New Citizenship Project "Natural Law and Unnatural Disorder ... Site moved.may have to search... http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/baldycenter/activities3A.html Family Research Council: Insight Cited in testimony of John P. Walters, former Acting Director and Deputy Director for Supply Reduction of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, before ... http://www.frc.org/papers/insight/index.cfm?get=IS97A1&arc=yes Maginnis McFRCn http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/35/35129.gifThe Super-Predators," in William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters, Body Count, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996, pp. 26-29. - 5 - More ... http://www.rand.org/publications/DB/DB228.pdf [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Dan B on October 30, 2002 at 11:53:28 PT: Strange . . . . . . how he doesn't mind police wasting their time rounding up peaceful pot smokers, booking them, placing them in custody, strip searching them, stealing their homes, cars and other items of value under pretense of law, and teaching school children lies about all sorts of drugs. But then, this is William J. Bennett, and I think we all know what tripe this disgusting excuse for human refuse enjoys spewing upon the masses. That he favors a "no" vote on Prop. 203 should be a wake-up call to all voters that a "yes" vote is in order.Dan B [ Post Comment ] Post Comment