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* The New York Times, 4/17/97
*
* Acting together, the Arizona Senate, Legislature and Governor have
* neutralized a citizens' initiative that would have allowed doctors
* to prescribe marijuana to sick or dying patients. It came four days
* after a Federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Clinton administrations
* plan to sanction doctors who recommeded marijuana under the terms of a
* similar initiative in California.
*
* Arizona politicians are allowed to modify the decisions of voters if the
* law is not approved by the majority of all registered voters, not just
* the people who actually voted. [What???] No proposition has ever met that
* criterion.
*
* Arizona voters approved proposition 200 last November by a ratio of 2 to 1.
Drug War results:
> Our prison population has tripled over the last 20 years.
> As of June 1996, 1.6 million of us were in prisons and jails.
> Incarceration rates for drug offenses - which are not considered major
> crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly
> constant.
* The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989
*
* Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom...
* must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an
* armed camp, by the visions of jails filled with casual drug users and of
* an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight
* evidence.
> Drug offenders were 6.4 percent of state prison populations in 1980.
> Drug offenders were 22.3 percent of state prison populations in 1994.
>
> The growth from less than 20,000 to nearly a quarter of a million was
> nearly tenfold.
>
> Non
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