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then governor, George Deukmejian
* deliberately refused to carry out the program passed by California
* legislators.

So, elected officials first thwarted the law, and then thwarted the citizens'
direct vote on the matter. What a bunch of...

* "Medical Use of Marijuana To Stay Illegal in Arizona", by Tim Golden
* The New York Times, 4/17/97
*
* Acting together, the Arizona Senate, Legislature and Governor have
* neutralized a citizens' initiative that would have allowed doctors
* to prescribe marijuana to sick or dying patients. It came four days
* after a Federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Clinton administrations
* plan to sanction doctors who recommeded marijuana under the terms of a
* similar initiative in California.
*
* Arizona politicians are allowed to modify the decisions of voters if the
* law is not approved by the majority of all registered voters, not just
* the people who actually voted. [What???] No proposition has ever met that
* criterion.
*
* Arizona voters approved proposition 200 last November by a ratio of 2 to 1.


Drug War results:

Our prison population has tripled over the last 20 years.
As of June 1996, 1.6 million of us were in prisons and jails.
Incarceration rates for drug offenses - which are not considered major
crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly
constant.

* The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989
*
* Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom...
* must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turni


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