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be used as medicine: "If somebody, say from Mexico or any other country,
*   aimed a missile at California, you would do something about it. And they're
*   aiming millions and millions of missiles right at these young people right
*   here, whether it's a needle, whether it's a cigarette, whatever the delivery
*   system is. It's poison [at least it's not paraquat!], and it's got to stop
*   in America. My view is that drugs are wrong, you shouldn't use drugs, you
*   shouldn't smoke cigarettes---let's just throw them all out at the same
*   time."
*
*   Mr. Dole later qualified his remarks: "I didn't say anything about
*   cigarettes." [what???]

Proposition 215 passed into law.

It was a major repudiation of Drug War hysteria.

A major repudiation of the Schedule I Substances classification of marijuana.
DEA: "Drugs in this schedule are those that have no accepted medical use in
      the United States and have a high abuse potential."

And just why did the citizens of California have to pass a ballot to
approve medical use of marijuana?

*   "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*   
*   From 1979 to 1989 (when the law lapsed), California had a law that was
*   supposed to help people get cannabis for medical reasons. Patric Mayers,
*   with his testimony and personal lobbying, was instrumental in getting the
*   California Legislature to pass the state law allowing cannabis for medical
*   use. Mayer's life was saved in 1976 when his doctors illegally advised him
*   to use marijuana for his chemotherapy nausea. He weighed only 93 pounds.
*   
*   However, first as state Attorney General 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 b