Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010
Subject: #448 California’s Proposition 19
CALIFORNIA’S PROPOSITION 19
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #448 – Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Today the San Francisco Chronicle printed two OPEDs.
The first ‘Californians Must Look at Science of Marijuana’
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n677/a08.html is interesting for
what is not disclosed. It is by an addiction therapist. The
therapeutic community has a vested interest in continuing the current
system. About half of all users in therapy are there because of their
marijuana use. Of those, over 40% are there from court referrals —
they take therapy as a preferred alternative to jail whether they need
it or not. Many of the others are there because their parents’ health
insurance will buy therapy as an alternative to being expelled from
school or referred to the juvenile justice system.
The second ‘Legalizing Marijuana Is Bad For California’
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10.n679.a06.html is by Susan
Manheimer, the president of the California Police Chiefs Association.
There is more spin and propaganda in the OPED than we can count.
Your letters to the editor about either or both are invited.
Opinion items are always good letter targets. They are MAP archived
at http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm
The same applies to Proposition 19 items which may be found at
http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Proposition+19
Please check out the new Proposition 19 website at http://yeson19.com/
– and please do whatever you can to support the effort.
We have started a list of who appears to be for and against
Proposition 19 based on MAP’s news clippings.
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FOR
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The National Black Police Association
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union
The California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
The Drug Policy Alliance Network
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
The American Civil Liberties Union
The Courage Campaign
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the former United States Surgeon General
The Cannabis Consumers Campaign
DRCNet
DrugSense
Common Sense for Drug Policy
Marijuana Policy Project
Citizens Opposing Prohibition
The California Black Chamber of Commerce
Retired Orange County Judge James Gray
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AGAINST
The California Chamber of Commerce
The California Police Chiefs Association
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Mexican Marijuana Trafficking Organizations
The California Narcotics Officer’s Association
Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer
The California League of Cities
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Suggestions for writing letters are at our Media Activism Center
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
For the latest facts about marijuana please see
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/53
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Prepared by: Richard Lake, Focus Alert Specialist www.mapinc.org