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Written by Mason Tvert
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Tuesday, 01 August 2006 |
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 SAFER wrote:
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:10:41 -0600
Subject: Down to the roach -- Please take a hit!
Dear Friend -
Two months ago, we unveiled a great-looking Joint-O-Meter on http://www.safercolorado.org/ our Web site conveying in graphic form our progress on the signature drive to place a marijuana legalization initiative on the Colorado ballot this November. On May 25, the joint graphic indicated that the campaign had 24,000 signatures on-hand.
 Two months ago, we unveiled a great-looking Joint-O-Meter on http://www.safercolorado.org/ our Web site conveying in graphic form our progress on the signature drive to place a marijuana legalization initiative on the Colorado ballot this November. On May 25, the joint graphic indicated that the campaign had 24,000 signatures on-hand.
Today, we are pleased to report that the joint has burned all the way down to the roach. In numerical terms, this means we have 93,000 of the 100,000 total signatures we originally set as a target!
Our designer was kind enough -- and clever enough -- to slip a little roach clip into the graphic. Check it out at http://www.safercolorado.org/http://www.safercolorado.org/http://www.safercolorado.org/ SAFERcolorado.org. While you're there, please consider taking a (financial) hit from the Joint-O-Meter before we pass our signatures along to the Secretary of State. The campaign must bring in at least another 7,000 signatures in the next seven days and every dollar you are able to donate will help it reach that goal.
Next Monday, August 7, the Colorado Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative Committee will be submitting all of the collected signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State. In order to qualify, 68,000 signatures must be from registered voters in the state.
Undoubtedly, a certain percentage of the signatures will be invalid
-- typically around 30 percent. Therefore, the campaign is trying to collect as many signatures as possible to make up for the bad ones.
If funds are available, collecting will continue right up until August 6.
If you have not made a contribution in the past to support our lobbying efforts -- including the initiative campaign in Colorado -- I encourage you to consider doing so today. Our goal is within reach and your support could help make it a reality. Please take a couple minutes to http://saferchoice.org/safercolorado/donate_other.html visit our Web site today and make a contribution with your credit card via PayPal.
Thanks, as always, for your interest and support. We look forward to updating you next week when the campaign submits it signatures.
Mason Tvert
Campaign Director, SAFER
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 August 2006 )
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Written by Torsten Ove
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
Ambridge businessman faces jail for marijuana
To be sentenced Friday for bringing 233 pounds of pot to county; could get more than 11 years
Sunday, July 30, 2006
By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In 1904, American Bridge Co. erected a stately
borough building for Ambridge, the company town, which was incorporated
the next year.
For generations, the proud Victorian structure on Merchant Street
housed the borough council, the tax collector, a police station, a
community stage, even, at one time, a stable and hayloft for the fire
department's horses.
When Ambridge built a new municipal complex in 1996, there was talk of turning the relic into a museum.
Instead, a local steel industry draftsman named Thomas E. Throckmorton
bought it a couple of years later for $45,000 and renovated it for his
company, Industrial Construction Enterprise. Then he filled it with pot.
Part of Mr. Throckmorton's enterprise, it turned out, was distributing
huge amounts of Mexican marijuana trucked in from Arizona. One
informant told state police he was storing 300 pounds at the Merchant
Street building a week before troopers and the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration raided it last summer.
Mr. Throckmorton is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court, where
he could be sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for shipping 233
pounds of marijuana to Beaver County.
Torsten Ove can be reached at
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Written by Bill Piper
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
Rethink tactics of drug war?
Target big cartels; step up treatment
BILL PIPER
When
Iowa's two U.S. senators - Republican Charles Grassley and Democrat Tom
Harkin - this spring called on President Bush to fire his drug czar,
John Walters, they spoke for many people frustrated with the lack of
success in the war on drugs. But Walters' performance is mixed, and
firing bureaucrats won't make our failed drug policies work any better.
Systematic change is needed.
Despite spending hundreds of
billions of dollars and arresting millions of Americans, illegal drugs
remain cheap, potent and widely available in every community.
Meanwhile, the harms associated with drug abuse - addiction, overdose,
the spread of AIDS/HIV and hepatitis - continue to mount. Add to this
record of failure the collateral damage of the war on drugs - broken
families, racial disparities, wasted tax dollars and the erosion of
civil liberties - and it's easy to see why so many Americans want major
change.
The war on drugs has many defects, including lack of
prioritization. Federal agencies are over-extended and waste too many
resources duplicating state efforts. Policymakers need to shrink the
drug war down to something that is manageable.
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