From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
Subject: Re: YYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!
Keywords: Braun,Feinstein,Boxer,Gore,Legalization,Hemp
Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:26:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.233331.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> maxwell@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
}And bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca added:
}I'm sure George Bush was all set to end the Wo(s)D, sign an executive order
}telling the DEA to lay off AIDS patients who grow their own, sign another one
}telling the DEA to stop any further forfieture proceedings. I'm sure George
}Bush was going to have Dan Quayle network w/ congress and industry to propose
}fast-track legislation legalizing hemp for biomass, forest friendly paper,
}domestic textiles, oil-seed and food. I heard that Bush was going to cite
}George Washington's sinsemilla growing experiments (during a speech scheduled
}for next 4th of July at NORML's annual Washington DC Smoke-In across the street
}from the white house) and urge the passage of a grow-your-own-for-fun bill.

Ahem.  There was no anti-drug prohibition candidate?  Libertarian?  Andre
Marrou?

}I know that I like Barbara Boxer's position on a lot of issues--
}except for her Hemp stance.  At least she's not another Dornen.

Tax and spend?  Even Democrats think she's superficial, only taking stands
on issues she's likely to get publicity for.  She's also an alcohol prohibi-
tionist, and a partisan of the fundamentalist jihad they call the War on
Drugs.

}I know that Dianne Feinstein (apologies for spelling) was mayor of San
}Francisco after a Dan White killed Moscionne and Milk. I know that Feinstein
}had good relations with the SF gay community, that Harvey Milk urged
}Dennis Peron to become politically active and that Dennis eventually got
}proposition P passed in SF with a four to one (4:1) majority. I know that
}Dianne Feinstein knows about the benifits of medicinal hemp.

She came into office when SF had a budget surplus, and left it with a
deficit that has grown and grown and... many SF residents call her "Feinswine".
Knowing about it and caring are two very different things.

}I would expect Barbara and Dianne to be hearing from Dale G. and Dennis P. (or
}Dennis' successor in NORML) before the beginning of the next session of
}Congress.

And what incentive do they have to do anything about it?  They don't even
have any ideological motivation, much less anything else.

}I know that Carol Moseley Braun has stated time and time again that she thinks
}"chasing pot smokers is stupid ..." I know that her opponent tried use that
}stance against her and *lost*. I know she never backed down from her decrim
}stance.

Well, good for her.  Now if she decides that chasing producers to tax them is
stupid, too, that'll be about right.

}I also know that the people of this country just voted for two admitted pot
}smokers as the nest leaders of the free world.

Are you blind?  Clinton didn't admit to smoking, he admitted to mouthing a
joint without inhaling.

}These are a few of the reasons I'm glad to see George Bush lose the election.

Being glad Bush lost is different from being glad Clinton won.


Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu

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