cannabisnews.com: Anti-Pot Group Files Late Anti-Pot Group Files Late Posted by CN Staff on April 04, 2003 at 14:05:53 PT By Liz Heitzman of the Tribune’s Staff Source: Columbia Daily Tribune The executive director of ACT Missouri filed a campaign disclosure report this morning indicating the Jefferson City group has spent $1,675 in ads in the Tribune about Proposition 1.The report comes two days after Dan Viets, a local attorney who helped write the marijuana initiative, filed a complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission about ACT Missouri. Viets’ complaint says the organization violated election laws by not reporting the money it had spent within 14 days of a campaign expenditure. He also alleges that the group, which has not-for-profit status, violated election laws by using tax-deductible money for campaigning purposes.According to election laws, individuals or organizations not on file with the Boone County clerk as a political action committee must report all expenditures totaling more than $500.ACT Missouri’s report indicates the group paid $837 for an ad in the March 16 Tribune. Under Missouri’s campaign disclosure laws, that amount should have been reported Monday.ACT Missouri is the Jefferson City-based group that has stepped forward to oppose Proposition 1, which would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and give seriously ill patients the right to use it if recommended by a doctor.Yesterday, the organization paid for a luncheon at the Peachtree Banquet Center that was attended by about 50 people. The focus of the luncheon was existing problems with marijuana in the community and how passing Proposition 1 would intensify those.Asked about the ethics complaint, Executive Director Peggy Quigg said she would not "work the issue out in the press.""Mr. Viets and I are going to have to work that out with the ethics commission. I am not going to work it out in your newspaper," Quigg said. "The ethics commission will make their determination and it will go through the appropriate channels, so it’s a non-issue."The Missouri Ethics Commission is the state organization that oversees conflict-of-interest and campaign-disclosure issues. Ethics commission spokesman Mike Reid said all complaints filed with the commission are confidential until a ruling is made.U.S. Rep Ron Paul, R-Texas, also filed an ethics complaint this week with the General Accounting Office about Scott Burns, the spokesman from the White House’s drug policy office who was speaking out about efforts to decriminalize or legalize marijuana yesterday in Columbia.Paul’s complaint alleges that Burns has used federal funds to influence local elections. Specifically, he noted a letter that was sent to county prosecutors by Burns in November about marijuana. Paul said he filed his complaint this week after hearing about Burns’ visit to Columbia."The issue is whether people in Columbia, Missouri, have the right to make their own decisions," Paul said. "I think the Constitution says that it’s none of the federal government’s business."Burns said that the drug czar’s office was paying for his visit and that he was simply doing his job by "telling the truth about marijuana."Note: Viets complains to state ethics commission.Source: Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)Author: Liz Heitzman of the Tribune’s Staff Published: Friday, April 04, 2003Copyright: 2003 Columbia Daily TribuneContact: editor tribmail.comWebsite: http://www.showmenews.com/Related Articles:Both Sides Ignoring Central-City Realitieshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15878.shtmlFederal Official Issues Pot Warning http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15868.shtmlPot Initiative Draws Federal Attention http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15864.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by FoM on April 07, 2003 at 15:49:30 PT News Brief from the Columbia Daily Tribune Groups, People Take Sides on Prop 1 Published: Monday, April 7, 2003The day before the election to decide Proposition 1, groups and individuals are taking sides on the marijuana measure.ACT Missouri, the Jefferson City-based group that has been organizing opposition to the proposition sent out a news release Friday indicating that the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics came out against the measure.According to a letter from the Academy, passing the legislation would send a "negative message to the children of our state" about a "scientifically proven addictive and harmful substance."On the other side of the issue, Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, Warren Welliver - a former Missouri Supreme Court judge - and Welliver’s daughter, Christy Welliver, have endorsed Proposition 1, according to a news release from the Columbia group supporting the proposition. Christy Welliver has multiple sclerosis. Her father served on the state’s highest court from 1979 to 1989.Jacob was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1996 and previously served on the Columbia Board of Education. Columbia Daily Tribune [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by afterburner on April 04, 2003 at 19:50:51 PT: Re: The GCW's link The Food and Drug Administration's rules for medical treatment, which don't accept marijuana as a legitimate treatment, make a base for drug use rules in most countries around the world, said Will Glaspy, spokesman for the DEA. "The question that needs to be asked is, are we going to abandon that system for a system that is based essentially on the ideas of lobbyists," Glaspy said.Worldwide prohibition is motivated by a group of US bureaucrats, not elected by WE THE PEOPLE. The real question is: does the USA, which claims to promote DEMOCRACY around the world, really believe in DEMOCRACY enough to listen to its own people, WE THE PEOPLE, who are overwhelmingly in favor of allowing chronically ill or dying people to use medical cannabis? I am not a lobbyist: no one pays me one red-white-and-blue cent to inform the public of the truth about cannabis, the truth that has been buried alive by political propaganda, obfuscation, and junk science. The gall of these unelected non-representative bureaucrats with their holier-that-thou attitides! ego destruction or ego transcendence, that is the question.And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind - Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new - Hail Atlantis!Donovan Lyrics :: 105 LYRICS AVAILABLE!! http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/donovan/lyrics.htm [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by The GCW on April 04, 2003 at 17:13:53 PT Addressing the schedule I lie. US MO: BILL: MARIJUANA OK FOR PAIN RELIEF If a proposed bill passes, people in Missouri would have the right to use marijuana if they've exhausted the use of pain relief medicine for the effects of cancer, glaucoma, AIDS and other diseases. The bill to legalize marijuana for such patients was introduced March 13 in the Missouri House of Representatives and is awaiting further discussion. It would acknowledge marijuana as acceptable for medical use in Missouri by classifying the drug as a Schedule II Substance, lowering it from its current Schedule I classification, which prohibits using it as medicine by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 42 states. Cont... http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n486/a04.html?397 [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by ekim on April 04, 2003 at 15:26:28 PT Go Mr. Paul U.S. Rep Ron Paul, R-Texas, also filed an ethics complaint this week with the General Accounting Office about Scott Burns, Now where are the other Reps. who said they would defend the constitution.Paul said. "I think the Constitution says that it’s none of the federal government’s business." [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Virgil on April 04, 2003 at 14:53:16 PT Rubbish Burns said that the drug czar’s office was paying for his visit and that he was simply doing his job by "telling the truth about marijuana."Good grief. Are people really this stupid? This is just codswallup. Codswallup means rubbish or nonsense. Take your pick. You will be right whichever you use to describe this display of ignorance.I am watching a rerun of Andy Griffith where Barney thinks a farmer named Sam Becker is doing something illegal and they go out and watch him and he is plowing at night. Barney and Andy are sitting in the car watching and Barney speculates he is covering up an illegal act and says he may be planting marijuana or some other illegal crop. I am surprised I never noticed it before. It is cannabis news to me. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment