The second piece demonstrates the venomous nature of the prohibitionist opposition. What is especially sad about this piece is that he has some valid points, but hatred blinds people.)

July 30, 1998
The Arizona Republic
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By Mike McCloy

GROUP FIGHTS LISTING OF DRUGS

A medical-marijuana group is going to court Friday to have the words edited out of the publicity pamphlet for the Nov. 3 general election.

The Legislative Council's description for voters says that Proposition 300 would limit a 1996 initiative by Arizonans for Drug Policy Reform that legalizes not only marijuana but LSD, heroin, PCP and other Schedule One drugs.

Lawmakers amended the 1996 initiative last year with House Bill 2518, which blocked legalization of any street drugs in Arizona unless Congress approves marijuana for medical use.

Renaming themselves The People Have Spoken, pot proponents gathered signatures again this year to reverse the Legislature's changes in their initiative by referring HB 2518 to the ballot.

The People Have Spoken said that lawmakers were wrong in tampering with a law passed by the voters and were unfair early this month in writing their official description of the referendum. The publicity pamphlet is scheduled to be printed Tuesday by the Secretary of State's Office.

The Legislative Council's official description of the initiative in 1996 did not mention LSD, heroin, PCP (a psychedelic drug) or Schedule One drugs other than marijuana, said lawyer Jack LaSota. So, he said, these words should not be used to describe the referendum. Voting 9-0, the Legislative Council kept the references to LSD and heroin but changed the official description of the referendum to include "certain analogues of PCP." Some chemical variations of PCP are listed in federal schedules of illegal drugs.

Sam Vagenas, spokesman for The People Have Spoken, said the group will ask Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Howe to delete hard drugs from the ballot description.

July 29, 1998
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By David Leibowitz

DOPERS TRY AGAIN FOR LEGALIZATION

Again, here come the drug legalizers, with their deep pockets and half-truths, all manner of lies.

In 1996, they used $1.5 million from a few millionaires to buy Proposition 200 in Arizona. That con was sold as the compassionate "medicalization of marijuana." The dopers failed to mention their law also "medicalized" heroin, LSD and several cousins of PCP and meth.

And you thought Walgreens had a field day selling Viagra.

Thankfully, this push to legitimize hard drugs marked the one time in memory our 90 Dwarfs stood tall: The Legislature trumped Prop. 200 with House Bill 2518. Said law kept it illegal to prescribe pot, heroin, acid, etc., until Congress or the FDA and DEA signed off on marijuana to fight illness.

This history lesson leads us to Election ‘98 and the latest pro-drug calumny.
(Ed. note: He doesn’t know the meaning of the word "calumny," but he certainly knows how to practice it.)

Their new initiative is called Prop. 300. This time, the drug peddlers need a few hundred thousand dupes to vote "no." That "no" would gut HB 2518, and implement Prop. 200 in full-flower.

Would allow 116 drugs

Not just "medicalized pot." Prescribed heroin. Prescribed LSD. Prescribed legitimacy for all 116 Schedule I drugs. All addicts would need are two quacks to agree in writing, plus some "scientific research" the law never defines.

As I said, keep that truth in mind. Repeat it over and again: Not pot alone.

Heroin, LSD and 113 drugs besides.

Tell a friend, too, because the dopers have sued the state to strike those words from an analysis in the election publicity pamphlet and from the Nov. 3 ballot.

"Plaintiffs," they rant in one of two lawsuits, "seek to correct inaccurate, incomplete and biased language that is about to be printed in the publicity pamphlet for the upcoming general election, and that grossly distorts the meaning and significance of a referendum measure to be voted on by the people."

This from the same con artists who used ads starring glaucoma victims to sneak heroin into the mainstream. The alleged distortion in question:

"(Prop. 200) allowed medical doctors to prescribe 116 Schedule I drugs, such as heroin, LSD, marijuana and PCP . . . "

Sure, it’s exactly true. But that clause—used twice in the pamphlet’s analysis section and once on the ballot—strikes the dopers as biased. Their lawyer, John Tuchi, notes that PCP is a Schedule II drug—three derivatives are Schedule I—and complains that the mere mention of "heroin" inflames.

The pro-drug solution? Only say "marijuana." Or, better yet, use the phrase "Schedule I drugs."

Do me a favor, Tuchi. Name a dozen Schedule I drugs.

"No, I can’t name what the Schedule I drugs are. . . . I have no idea."

Neither does anyone else, which explains the dopers’ lawsuit and campaign strategy: Keep it vague, keep the electorate uninformed. Then smuggle in a drug-loaded Trojan horse come Election Day.

Pushers find no shame

Rep. Mike Gardner lobbied the Legislative Council to add that clause to the analysis. "That’s a ridiculous argument, to say the public doesn’t have the right to know that Schedule I drugs also means heroin, LSD and analogs of PCP."

Ridiculous or no, millionaire drug advocates like John Sperling and George Soros find no shame in shouting it loud. No surprise there. In Washington state last year, they spent another $1.5 million to float the same soft-peddling of drugs. Their foes—outspent 15 to 1 -- seized on the heroin angle. The prop flamed out, 60 percent to 40 percent.

"They learned from that. They don’t want the truth to be used in this particular battle," says Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, a member of Arizonans Against Heroin, the group seeking "yes" votes to sink the dopers’ latest scheme. "It’s a fraud. Actually, fraud’s too nice a word. It’s another lie."

Sure is. You’d have to be stoned to fall for it. Or on heroin or LSD, or any one of 116 drugs no can name.

If the dopers win, you will indeed get that chance.