sweetpea
01-22-2004, 09:49 PM
Whatever happened to free speech?? And all of (our) taxpayers money going to this???? Can anyone give me a good explanation?? I can think of 145 better ways to spend that $145 million!! ARGH!!!
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Info from: http://www.drugpolicy.org
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After two days of debate and back-and-forth voting, the Senate passed a bill (http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/pressroom/pressrelease/pr01_14_04istook.cfm) that will censor marijuana reform efforts. The Drug Policy Alliance had been working to defeat this provision since it was snuck into the huge federal spending bill by Oklahoma Republican Rep. Ernest Istook in December 2003.
The provision will effectively ban private advertising on buses, subways, or trains in support of marijuana law reform - including campaign ads in support of medical marijuana ballot measures. Worse still, the same bill also spends $145 million in taxpayer money on anti-marijuana government propaganda. This federal spending bill unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives late last year, and now that the Senate has passed the legislation we expect President Bush to sign in into law over the next couple of days.
:pissed:
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Info from: http://www.drugpolicy.org
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After two days of debate and back-and-forth voting, the Senate passed a bill (http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/pressroom/pressrelease/pr01_14_04istook.cfm) that will censor marijuana reform efforts. The Drug Policy Alliance had been working to defeat this provision since it was snuck into the huge federal spending bill by Oklahoma Republican Rep. Ernest Istook in December 2003.
The provision will effectively ban private advertising on buses, subways, or trains in support of marijuana law reform - including campaign ads in support of medical marijuana ballot measures. Worse still, the same bill also spends $145 million in taxpayer money on anti-marijuana government propaganda. This federal spending bill unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives late last year, and now that the Senate has passed the legislation we expect President Bush to sign in into law over the next couple of days.