🚀 go-pugleaf

laws
via citizen initiative ballots that legalized marijuana if a doctor prescribes
it. Usually for nausea or weight loss from chemotherapy or AIDS.

A massive Federal and State Drug War hysteria
campaign failed to stop people approving it.

*   The New York Times, Oct 3, 1996, San Francisco
*   "Skirmish in Anti-Drug War: California vs. 'Doonesbury'", by Tim Golden
*   
*   There a drug wars, and there are drug wars...
*   
*   Marching bravely into the cultural swamp where Dan Quayle once bogged
*   down in combat with the television single mother Murphy Brown,
*   California's Attorney General, Dan Lungren, has taken his fight
*   against the medical use of marijuana to Zonker Harris, the laid-back
*   hero of the comic strip 'Doonesbury'. Like the former Vice President,
*   Mr. Lungren appears to have underestimated his adversaries' capacity
*   to make fun of him.
*   [snip]
*   
*   Mr. Lungren raided a marijuana outlet after two years in which the
*   United States Attorney in San Francisco and the city's District
*   Attorney had both declined to prosecute it.
*   [snip]
*
/   "Zonker": I can't believe anyone would shut down the Cannabis Buyers'
/   Club! Who ordered the bust?
/   Other character responds: "Dan Lungren, the State Attorney General.
/   Local cops wouldn't do it, so they had to bring in the Republicans."
*   
*   "No one should be laughing," said Mr. Lungren, asking newspapers in
*   the state to censor the rest of the week's cartoons as a public service.
*   
*   No one followed the Attorney General's request.

Other Federal and state government officials were SHOCKED that
it passed and made angry noises and tried to interfere.

*   The New York Times, Aug 29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye
*   "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs"
*
*   Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which woul