Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005
Subject: #310 Newspaper Printed Opinions In Response To Raich
NEWSPAPER PRINTED OPINIONS IN RESPONSE TO RAICH
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #310 – Saturday, 11 June 2005
As we predicted in the last FOCUS alert the press did have a field day
with the Raich decision. See http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0309.html
Below we have selected and provide links to editorials, columns and
OPEDs which we believe are from newspapers that accept letters to the
editor from writers outside their circulation area. We suggest you
write to those nearest you first, and then as many of the rest of them
as you wish.
Please remember that even if your letter is not printed, it encourages
the editorial page editors to give our issues more coverage.
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US MI: Editorial: No Compassion For People In Pain?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a04.html
US MI: Editorial: Medical Pot Ruling Tramples States’ Rights
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a06.html
US HI: Editorial: Federal Law Needed For Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a01.html
US TX: Editorial: Marijuana Ruling Was About Federal Law, Not Medicine
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a02.html
US OR: Editorial: Reclassify Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a07.html
US MA: Editorial: Marijuana And Congress
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a03.html
US OH: Editorial: Where Is the Compassion
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a04.html
US CO: Editorial: High Court Twists Pot Ruling
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a06.html
US FL: Editorial: Opening A New Front
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a03.html
US WI: Editorial: High Court Muffs Ruling On Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a01.html
US WI: Editorial: Let States, Doctors OK Marijuana Use
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a02.html
US FL: Editorial: Marijuana Ruling Burns States
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a01.html
US: Editorial: High On The Commerce Clause
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a02.html
US GA: Editorial: Court Goes To Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a05.html
US NY: Editorial: Let The Sick Use Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a07.html
US TX: Editorial: Congress Should Make Exception To Drug Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a08.html
US OR: Editorial: Oregon’s Medical-Marijuana Law Just Got Hazier
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a09.html
US CA: Editorial: Court Ruling Allows Persecution By Feds
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a10.html
US NC: Editorial: State Law Allowing Medical Use of Pot Is Not Invalid
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a01.html
US CT: Editorial: A Medical Setback
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a04.html
US MA: Editorial: The Case For Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a06.html
US OH: Editorial: The Court On Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a07.html
US TX: Editorial: States’ Rights Go Up in Smoke, Thanks to U.S. Supreme Court
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a09.html
US MO: Editorial: A Stretch Of Court’s Reach
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n930/a03.html
US: Editorial: The High Court Errs
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n928/a08.html
US NC: Editorial The One Drug You Can’t Have URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n928/a01.html
US IL: Editorial: Marijuana As Medicine
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n927/a14.html
US NC: Editorial: Court Ruling Ensures Enforcement
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a05.html
US MT: Editorial: Idea of Limited Government Goes to Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a07.html
US FL: Editorial: Suffering and States’ Rights
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a01.html
US AL: Editorial: Myths Up In Smoke In Medi-Marijuana Case
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a05.html
US CA: Editorial: Just Where Is The Humanity?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a06.html
US KY: Editorial: Expanding Federal Power
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a02.html
US TN: Editorial: Open Up Marijuana Debate
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n922/a07.html
US GA: Editorial: Congress Needs To Decide
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n921/a03.html
US AZ: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Up In Smoke
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a05.html
US NY: Editorial: High Court Flops On Medicinal Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a09.html
US RI: Editorial: The Marijuana Ruling
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a10.html
US TN: Editorial: States Should Decide Legality Of Medical Marijuana Use
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a02.html
US DC: Editorial: Not About Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a01.html
US AL: Editorial: Just Say No
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a03.html
US NJ: Editorial: Still a Wisp Of Hope
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a07.html
US VT: Editorial: A Criminal Prescription
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a05.html
US TX: Editorial: U.S. Must Turn to Congress After Ruling
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a04.html
US IL: Editorial: Pot and the Constitution
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a03.html
US MA: Editorial: Marijuana Not Yet Ready For Medicine Box
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a04.html
US CA: Editorial: State Should Push Federal Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a06.html
US ME: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Debate Headed Where It Belongs
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n912/a06.html
US WI: Editorial: Court Ruling Was Dopey
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n911/a05.html
US NY: Editorial: The Court and Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a01.html
US TX: Editorial: Let States Decide
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a02.html
US MA: Editorial: Some Justices Need To Take A Pill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n908/a07.html
US SC: Editorial: Supreme Court Limits the Right of States to Make Their
Own Decisions and Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n903/a03.html
US OR: Editorial: High Court Points the Way on Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a05.html
US OR: Editorial: Supreme Court Clouds Medical Marijuana Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a07.html
US MA: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Not Reefer Madness
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n897/a06.html
US MA: Editorial: A Win For U.S. Drug Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a08.html
US MO: Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court – Pot and Power
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a10.html
US: Editorial: Court’s Ruling on Marijuana Reeks of ‘Reefer Madness’
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a03.html
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US IN: Column: You Make The Judicial Call
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a05.html
US MI: Column: Getting Tough on the Terminally Ill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a03.html
US MA: Column: Align Drug Laws With Common Sense
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a08.html
US UT: Column: States’ Rights Get Burned By Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a09.html
US FL: Column: Hard To Tell Who’s An Activist
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a10.html
US FL: Column: How Congress Can Quickly Strike a Blow for Common Sense
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a01.html
US GA: Column: Why Put Pot To The Test?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a03.html
US IL: Column: Dazed and Confused About Federal Power
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a10.html
US FL: Column: High Court Burned Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a08.html
US OK: Column: Ruling Clouds Assumptions
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n925/a01.html
US AL: Column: Justices Keep Defying Simple Political Categorization
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n925/a03.html
US MA: Column: Justices Aren’t Always Predictable
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n924/a03.html
US MA: Column: Justices Aren’t Always Predictable
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n924/a06.html
US FL: Column: In The Grip Of Reefer Madness
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a03.html
US DC: Column: Judging This Court
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a04.html
US NH: Column: Lifting A Glass, Or A Joint, To States’ Rights
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a06.html
US MT: Column: Ridiculous Court Ruling
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a07.html
US CA: Column: Getting Tough With The Terminally Ill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a08.html
US MS: Column: Just How ‘Conservative’ Was It to Ban Home-Grown Cannabis
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a03.html
US MN: Column: Legal Medical Pot Now Up To Congress
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a01.html
US CA: Column: How to Treat Terminally Ill? Let ’em Suffer
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a06.html
US IL: Column: Will Congress Have the Guts to Tackle Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a04.html
US OK: Column: Setback For Terminally Ill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n912/a10.html
US MS: Column: Let Those Poor Sick Folks Inhale
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n911/a06.html
US FL: Column: Getting Tough With The Terminally Ill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a06.html
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US WI: OPED: High Court Must Be On Something URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a02.html
US CO: OPED: High Court Has Gone Potty URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a02.html
US TX: OPED: Reading The Smoke Signals URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a01.html
US DC: OPED: ‘Medical’ Pot Up In Smoke URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a03.html
US CA: OPED: Medical Marijuana Needs Remedy URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a01.html
US NY: OPED: Smoke Must Have Blinded The Court URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a07.html
US NY: OPED: Good To Grow URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a02.html
US CA: OPED: Pot Fight Far From Over URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a02.html
US WI: OPED: Medical Marijuana: Should It Be Legal?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a01.html
US WI: OPED: Medical Marijuana: Should It Be Legal?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n900/a10.html
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Additional targets for your letters are being added to the MAP
archives. Check these links for new targets:
http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Raich
http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm
We doubt that there are any daily newspapers who have not given some
coverage to the Raich decision. Please consider writing to all of your
local/state newspapers. You really do not need to tie your letters to
a specific article when this issue is as hot as it is!
You may find the letter contacts for many of your state newspapers by
using the location dropdown at:
http://www.mapinc.org/media.htm
Finally, have you contacted your member of congress yet? As many of
the editorials say, it is congress that needs to act. But it is not
the editorials which will decide how the representatives vote this
Tuesday. It is the contacts from voters in their district that count
the most. That’s You!
Please see the DrugSense Editorial ‘Please Contact Your
Representative!’ for more details and easy ways to make that contact
now: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n929/a05.html
Thanks for your effort and support.
It’s not what others do it’s what YOU do
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Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center:
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/
Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal
tips on how to write LTEs that get printed.
heath@mapinc.org
Please also see the suggestions at http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0309.html
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Prepared by: Stephen Heath, MAP Media Activism Facilitator =