cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Campaign Draws in $857,000
Marijuana Campaign Draws in $857,000
Posted by CN Staff on October 30, 2004 at 11:22:24 PT
By Tataboline Brant
Source: Anchorage Daily News
The main group pressing to legalize marijuana in Alaska has taken in $857,000, making its effort the most expensive ballot issue campaign in Alaska since at least 1997, according to new campaign finance reports. Alaskans For Marijuana Regulation and Control has already spent about $831,000 on polls, canvassing, staff services, mailers and print and broadcast advertisements pushing Ballot Measure 2, which will appear on Tuesday's ballot and aims to legalize pot for adults 21 and older.
Almost all of the group's money comes from the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project, according to reports filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The organization is also funding legalization efforts in other states this year including Nevada, Montana and Oregon. David Finkelstein, a former legislator and treasurer for AMRC, said his group's focus through Tuesday will be to get supporters to the polls. "You get near the end and it's really about turning out your voters," he said.Three recent polls show Ballot Measure 2 failing by anywhere from 9 to 29 percentage points.The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce came out against the initiative Thursday, joining the Alaska State Medical Association, city, state and federal law enforcement officials and Gov. Frank Murkowski and his wife in opposing legalization.Backers of Ballot Measure 2, meanwhile, on Friday released a list of 54 Alaska doctors, nurses, lawyers and professors who support legalization. Yes On 2 spokesman Bill Parker, a former deputy commissioner of corrections for the state, said in a written statement that Alaska is wasting millions of dollars arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning adults for marijuana use."It should come as no surprise that doctors, nurses, lawyers and professors are saying: We can do better," his statement said. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/campaign.htmSource: Anchorage Daily News (AK)Author: Tataboline BrantPublished: October 30, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Anchorage Daily News Contact: letters adn.com Website: http://www.adn.com/ Related Articles & Web Site:Yes on 2 Alaskahttp://www.yeson2alaska.com/A Drug-Abuse Researcher Says Vote Yes on 2 http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19743.shtmlMarijuana Initiative Heats Up Electionshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19741.shtmlAlaskans To Vote on Legalizing Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19738.shtml
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Comment #15 posted by Hope on October 31, 2004 at 11:40:28 PT
The GCW
Titus 3:9-11 sounds like FoM's way of dealing with trolls.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on October 31, 2004 at 08:18:26 PT
The GCW
What a nice greeting and Good Morning to you too!Sukoi thank you for the links.
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Comment #13 posted by siege on October 31, 2004 at 06:13:06 PT
Rove likely set up bin Laden tape
WALTER CRONKITE,In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dumphttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/29/lkl.01.html
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Comment #12 posted by The GCW on October 31, 2004 at 05:37:05 PT
FoM,
Good morning.Has this one been up?Pot statistics used to defend both sidesBy DANIEL RICE, Staff Writerhttp://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2504065,00.html
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Comment #11 posted by The GCW on October 31, 2004 at 05:16:10 PT
Notice how We are kind of spending Our money?
And so are they.(I did not contribute $ to this... but,,,)The people spending the $ to fight cannabis are not spending their own money...They make Us out to be the bad guys, but there is some backwards thinking here. That is the whole problem...This planet is run by backwards thinking people that have slipped in and argued to kill, argued to cage people for using what is good, etc. and they were not stopped.We were warned and We did not stop them. See Titus 3:9-11.Things are very clear and out in the open.The Green Collar Worker
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Comment #10 posted by sukoi on October 31, 2004 at 04:46:27 PT
A Few Articles/Editorials:
Marijuana measures are on three state ballotshttp://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0410/31/a115-320834.htmSurvey: Marijuana, alcohol less harmful than tobaccohttp://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2004/10/31/news/local/news05.txtOregon medical pot measure draws firehttp://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041031/news_1n31orepot.htmlNo to marijuanahttp://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2004/10/31/opinions/148.txtCriminals may have mistaken elderly couple's home for a marijuana grow-op, police sayhttp://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=c8b195eb-513f-4985-9f3c-589b641ee175
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Comment #9 posted by kaptinemo on October 31, 2004 at 04:40:06 PT:
I can just hear it: Only the guilty need fear, eh?
When Franz Kafka wrote he referred to America as "Amerika"; the practice stuck and is universally accepted amongst (literary) Americans as a synonym for all that's wrong with this country, that lies just beneath the surface just waiting to hatch out.Given this latest bit of news thanks to Mayan, and the Canadian police's seemingly unconscious echoing of the Gestapo motto ("It cannot take people taking baths or people at a kitchen table having coffee ... Unless they are growing marijuana and ... losing exhorbitant amounts of heat they have nothing to fear." replacing the much shorter
"Only the guilty need fear!"), should we start referring to Canada as Kanada?IMHO, more and more, Canadian police and politicians are taking on characteristics of their Southern neighbors, to the same detriment to civil liberties which we have been experiencing here. If this keeps up, there'll be no place in North America safe from fascism, short of State and Provincial secessions...
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Comment #8 posted by mayan on October 31, 2004 at 03:35:45 PT
Already Worth It
Whether or not Measure 2 passes, more prohibitionists have been exposed as the lying scum that they are. Just witnessing them squirm in desperation makes this measure worthwhile! Canadians now have less privacy...Heat back on illegal pot farms:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/10/30/692783.htmlThe way out is the way in...Watchdog Groups Push Spitzer For Full 9/11 Investigation:
http://www.ny1.com/ny/Search/SubTopic/index.html?&contentintid=44688&search_result=19/11 Victim Families, Survivors and Triage Doctor Present Complaint to Spitzer's Lead Investigator:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/43/d4/200410291408.a8f2d9ef.htmlNY Attorney General's Office Accepts Unprecedented Citizens' Complaint Demanding Criminal Inquiry into 9/11 Crimes:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=39128Toward a New Criminal Investigation into the Events of September 11, 2001:
http://www.justicefor911.org/9/11 "black box" cover-up at Ground Zero?
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001139.html
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on October 30, 2004 at 22:37:50 PT
Robbie
I'm with you. I feel change is in the air.
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Comment #6 posted by Robbie on October 30, 2004 at 21:57:24 PT
Good luck in Alaska!
Maybe we'll have good news on more than one front on Tuesday!
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Comment #5 posted by The GCW on October 30, 2004 at 17:56:16 PT
Wait a moment. Tally it up.
How much did they spend?As I recall, their Gov. just made a booboo that cost $300,000 to reprint election material.As I recall there is an expense to send a drug warrior to Alaska to persecute cannabis.There is the cost the state caughed up when if fought to not count credible petition signitures.There is the cost of caging humans for using what is good, that costs more than We can count, when You consider the prison industry share...Tearing apart families because someone uses a plant, comes with great costs.Tally it up.
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Comment #4 posted by global_warming on October 30, 2004 at 16:21:27 PT
There are many of us behind you Alaska..Good Luck!
"The main group pressing to legalize marijuana in Alaska has taken in $857,000, making its effort the most expensive ballot issue campaign in Alaska since at least 1997, according to new campaign finance reports."I reckon that the older generation, them flower children, who gave up utopias, and put on business suits, maybe can change this bloody world yet.I hope that Alaska, a damn cold place, will lead us into freedom.Maybe the sheeple are starting to wake up, and they are getting pissed off, at the way our government is controlling our society, maybe these many people can make a difference.
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on October 30, 2004 at 11:44:32 PT
Off Topic News
Groovefest To Feature John Sinclair: http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1099131027126230.xml
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on October 30, 2004 at 11:43:19 PT
Off Topic
'Rev. Happy' Guilty of Furnishing Booze to Teenagers: http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1099131302142170.xml
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on October 30, 2004 at 11:41:19 PT
Off Topic: Actor Makes a Splash in Salem
Woody Harrelson excites fans with movie, message
October 30, 2004The most memorable words at Salem Cinema on Friday morning: "The bus!"Actor-activist Woody Harrelson pulled up in his hemp-fueled, hand-painted bus -- more than an hour late -- after a showing of his 80-minute documentary, "Go Further.""Oh say, I'm sorry," said Harrelson, the sleepy, bearded star who was wearing a dark stocking cap and jeans.More than 150 fans had gathered for the 9:30 a.m. showing and a question-and-answer session."We've never had a screening at 9 o'clock in the morning before," Harrelson said.By 1 p.m., when the big, bright bus pulled out of Salem for stops in Portland and Seattle, all was forgiven amid hugs and kisses (theater owner Loretta Miles accused Harrelson of flirting with her), signatures on posters, casts and whatever, and a cheerful question-and-answer session about environmentalism.It was a Woody kind of encounter -- not out of character for the guy who starred as the likable, dim-bulb bartender of the TV show "Cheers" and has ambled his way through movies that include "Natural Born Killers" and "The People vs. Larry Flynt.""Go Further," which has been called "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on tofu, opens nationally Nov. 12 -- the same day as Harrelson's latest big-screen effort, "After the Sunset," in which he plays an FBI man pursuing an ex-jewel thief played by Pierce Brosnan."Go Further" is quintessential Harrelson, a raw-food eating environmentalist opposing logging, junk food and corporations on a West Coast road trip. "After the Sunset" is not."That was a big stretch," said Harrelson, who has been arrested on marijuana charges and has had other encounters with the law. "I have such an anti-authority thing in my brain."Not surprisingly, Harrelson had his hookah pipe refilled at the theater, just as "Go Further" co-star, reformed junk-food fan Steve Clark sent people on a search for a lost joint in the auditorium.In "Go Further," Harrelson and friends stop outside Eugene in 2001 for a visit with author Ken Kesey, who died not long afterward, to see the bus Kesey and his Merry Pranksters traveled in.Their 1960s adventures were captured by Tom Wolfe in the book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.""We were hanging out with some of these pranksters last night," Harrelson told the audience while talking of his own road trip. "We had a real sense of what these pranksters went through. It's a real experience."The film is an amiable jaunt, mixed with human comedy (mainly Clark, who spent 12 years selling burritos at Grateful Dead concerts before meeting Harrelson) and messages about eating right and respecting the environment."The important thing in the film is to follow someone who's going through an evolution," Harrelson said.Snipped:Complete Article: http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041030/NEWS/410300360/1001
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