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Bush Drug Rep. Joins Anti-Pot Plan Group
Posted by CN Staff on April 04, 2003 at 09:50:16 PT
By Amal Bala, Staff Writer
Source: Maneater
Peggy Quigg held up a sandwich bag filled with 35 grams of smoking tobacco rolled into about 50 cigarettes. “This is not a small amount of marijuana for 13-year-olds, 35-year-olds or 50 year-olds,” the executive director of Jefferson City anti-drug group ACT Missouri said. Quigg joined a President Bush appointee, doctors and city officials in a Thursday press conference to oppose Proposition 1, a measure that would relax Columbia’s marijuana laws. 
Scott Burns, deputy director of state and local affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said he was not visiting Columbia to tell people how to vote in Tuesday’s election, but to “help those who have been caught up in the lie.” The proposition would automatically send those charged with possessing 35 grams or less of marijuana to city court, not county court where fines are often higher. Seriously ill patients would have access to the drug for medicinal purposes. Burns said supporters of similar plans in other cities told people marijuana was a “soft drug” that just overcrowded jails. Burns said this is untrue. “It comes down to this: Show me, while I am in Missouri, that more drugs are going to be better,” he said. Even if the proposition is passed, Burns said, students could still lose financial aid if they are convicted of a drug related offense. Supporters of the proposition have said that if marijuana cases are handled in municipal court, such students could keep their financial aid. Paul Robinson, a doctor in adolescent medicine at the Student Health Center, said decriminalization of marijuana would increase marijuana use. “It is very well-proven that when adolescents’ perceptions of the danger of any drug goes down, the use of that drug goes up,” Robinson said. First Ward City Council member Almeta Crayton said she has seen the adverse effects drugs have on neighborhoods. “I don’t think you want to put up with what we deal with every day in our community,” Crayton said. “My area has been hard hit by drugs … Shame on those who are advancing these efforts,” she said in a press release. Last fall, organizers of Proposition 1 collected enough signatures to have the issue on the ballot. Dan Viets, lawyer and legal director for the Columbia Alliance for Patients and Education, is a lead supporter of the proposition. “It ought to be passed,” he said. “It’s very important for students to support it.” The benefit to sick patients is another reason voters should support it, he said. — Kate Heine contributed to this report Source: Maneater, The (Columbia, MO Edu)Author: Amal Bala, Staff WriterPublished: April 4, 2003Copyright: 2003 The ManeaterContact: forum themaneater.comWebsite: http://www.themaneater.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Missouri NORMLhttp://www.gstlnorml.org/White House Says No To Legal Drugshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15874.shtmlFederal Official Issues Pot Warning http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15868.shtmlPot Initiative Draws Federal Attention http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15864.shtml
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Comment #10 posted by malleus2 on April 05, 2003 at 06:31:43 PT
Boy, it's just like the Army
They used to make us sing these marching songs. One of which began with:"Heeeeere, we go, again!
Same old sh*t, agaaaaain..."What should be done is this:When one of these dweebs pulls this stunt, someone should hold up a a bag containing 35 grams of tobacco, and then ask the dweeb what they can expect to happen if someone ate it. The symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning aren't funny, they're life threatening. Pure nicotine and it's derivatives like nicotine sulphate are deadly poisons. The latter used to be used as an insecticide and still is some places. That's why some gardening books tell you to kill bugs by spraying plants with water in which a cigar was left.But eat thirty five grams of weed? A long nap and sweet dreams is about all that happens. You wake up feeling silly for having been so greedy...and will probably never try that stunt again. But at least you'll wake up...not end up residing on a cold slab in a morgue, somewhere. With a tag on your toe reading "Suicide"...because that's what that 35 grams of ingested tobacco might buy you. 
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on April 04, 2003 at 20:52:15 PT
More on Executive Order Concerning SARS
I know this is off topic but it is important to know. If people get sick they will be afraid to go to a Doctor for fear of an authority putting them in isolation in my opinion. Then if you weren't sick you might get sick is the way I see it. Strange times indeed.Bush Puts New Disease On U.S. Quarantine List By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff WriterSaturday, April 5, 2003; Page A01 Excerpt: A quarantine involves detaining someone who either has been infected or is suspected of being infected with a communicable disease to prevent it from spreading to others. Some patients with SARS have been isolated in this country to prevent them from infecting other people, but no one without symptoms has been quarantined.Complete Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31424-2003Apr4.html
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Comment #8 posted by freedom fighter on April 04, 2003 at 19:49:23 PT
35 cartons of Marlboro lights 
pls and quick, set a debate with this quiqq...And ask her if I should be arrested for having so many cartons...I have said this before.....1 GRAM OF CANNABIS EQUAL1 GRAM OF TOBACCO... AND 1 GRAM OF TOBACCO EQUALS ???1 cigarette..I wondered how many people got arrested for having one gram of cannabis in Missouri? How many got away because they came from very very rich family in Missouri? And I reallly want to know how many people got arrested for having one gram of tobacco in Missouri?pazff
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Comment #7 posted by druid on April 04, 2003 at 16:25:56 PT
SARS Quarantine
Here is a snip from another article I foundBush's order allows the Health and Human Services secretary to decide when a quarantine is needed. It calls for the "apprehension, detention or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission or spread of suspected communicable diseases".It names Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), which has affected a suspected 115 people in the United States, as well as cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever and viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Lassa and Marburg. 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2382172a7144,00.html
 In an executive order signed Friday, Bush added severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, to the list of diseases for which health authorities have authority to hold Americans against their will.It's the first time a new disease has been added to the list in two decades. 
http://boston.com/dailynews/094/wash/Bush_authorizes_quarantine_for%3A.shtml
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on April 04, 2003 at 14:29:50 PT
Here's an article
We better not get sick with anything infectious and what isn't anymore?Bush Issues Order Allowing Quarantine of SARS PatientsBy the Mercury NewsPublished: April 4, 2003President Bush issued an executive order today that would allow the quarantine of patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, the mysterious respiratory illness thought to have originated in China.The illness has affected a suspected 115 people in the United States and 2,400 worldwide, killing around 80. Santa Clara County is at the epicenter of the country's SARS outbreak, with nine suspected cases, more than any other locale.Complete Article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5560747.htm
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on April 04, 2003 at 13:37:41 PT
Off Topic
I was watching the news and heard that Bush signed an Executive Order concerning SARS. I can't find an article but it sounded like if you get sick you could be forced into isolation. Don't hold me to it. That's why I try to find an article in case I could have heard them wrong.
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Comment #4 posted by John Tyler on April 04, 2003 at 13:19:40 PT
35 grams is not that much
 Peggy Quigg held up a sandwich bag filled with 35 grams of smoking tobacco rolled into about 50 cigarettes. “This is not a small amount of marijuana for 13-year-olds, 35-year-olds or 50 year-olds,” the executive director of Jefferson City anti-drug group ACT Missouri said. 35 grams is not a lot of anything, and who is this Peggy Quiqq to tell anybody what they can or cannot have. Is she going to tell anybody how many beers they can drink or how many cigarettes they can smoke too? And besides cannabis will still be prohibited. So what is the big deal? Other places have small fines for possession too.
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Comment #3 posted by druid on April 04, 2003 at 12:59:12 PT
Cannabis != Drugs
Show me, while I am in Missouri, that more drugs are going to be betterit is very well-proven that when adolescents’ perceptions of the danger of any drug goes down, the use of that drug goes upFirst Ward City Council member Almeta Crayton said she has seen the adverse effects drugs have on neighborhoods. My area has been hard hit by drugs … Shame on those who are advancing these efforts,”Why can't they just stick to the topic at hand. The topic is CANNABIS not all other drugs. They always have to resort to making people think they are supporting all drug use and not just the decriminalization of cannabis.I highly doubt cannabis users are causing any problems in this woman's neighborhood. The problems she sees are associated with the prohibition of all drugs. I am sure cannabis users have been in her neighborhood for a very very long time. In fact I bet she might even have a close friend that is a cannabis user and she doesn't even know it.
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Comment #2 posted by i420 on April 04, 2003 at 11:50:54 PT
Lier lier the towers are on fire!
Scott Burns, deputy director of state and local affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said he was not visiting Columbia to tell people how to vote in Tuesday’s election, but to “help those who have been caught up in the lie.”The only people needing help with these lie are in CONGRESS!!
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Comment #1 posted by pokesmotter on April 04, 2003 at 10:03:25 PT:
people are so stupid
if this passes and it obviously doesn't work, it can be struck down. prohibitionists are so afraid of change
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