🚀 go-pugleaf

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
>   cr