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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:06:35 -0800
From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org>
To: restore@crrh.org
Subject: US: Clinton: Pot Smoking Should Not Be Prison Offense
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001207120607.05027eb0@mail.olywa.net>
Newshawk: Cannabis News - marijuana, hemp, and cannabis news
Pubdate: Wed, 06 Dec 2000
Source: Reuters
Copyright: 2000 Reuters Limited.
CLINTON: POT SMOKING SHOULD NOT BE PRISON OFFENSE
President Clinton, who tried to avoid the stigma of smoking marijuana by
saying he never "inhaled," tells Rolling Stone magazine that people should
not be jailed for using or selling small amounts of the drug.
In an interview with the rock magazine released on Wednesday, Clinton was
asked if he thought that "people should go to jail for using or even
selling small amounts of marijuana?"
Clinton, who raised eyebrows in the 1992 presidential primary campaign when
he admitted trying the drug but adding he didn't inhale, told the magazine,
"I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in
some places, and should be."
He added, "We really need a reexamination of our entire policy on
imprisonment. Some people deliberately hurt other people and they ought to
be in jail because they can't be trusted to be on the streets. Some people
do things that are so serious that that they have to be put in jail to
discourage other people from doing similar things.
"But a lot of people are in prison because they have drug problems or
alcohol problems and too many of them are getting out -- particularly out
of state systems -- without treatment, without education, without skills,
without serious efforts at job placement."
The interview, to be published on Friday, only weeks before Clinton leaves
office, was conducted during the presidential campaign and Clinton made a
prediction that has not come true and may not come true -- that Vice
President Al Gore would carry Florida.
"Gore will win Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. I always thought Gore
would win Florida. We worked like crazy there for eight years. And we've
done a lot for Florida and a lot with Florida -- and Joe Lieberman has
helped a lot in Florida. So I think Gore will win." That matter is still in
the courts even though Florida has certified Republican George W. Bush the
winner.
In the interview, Clinton also blamed his impeachment in the Monica
Lewinsky scandal on the work of a right-wing Congress and said special
prosecutor Kenneth Starr "did what he was paid to." He added, "The right
wing was in control of the Congress and ... they thought they had a free
shot to put a hit on me, and so they did. I don't think it's complicated."
Note: President Clinton, who tried to avoid the stigma of smoking marijuana
by saying he never "inhaled," tells Rolling Stone magazine that people
should not be jailed for using or selling small amounts of the drug.
_____________________________________________
Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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MAP posted-by: Jo-D
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From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org>
To: restore@crrh.org
Subject: US: Clinton: Pot Smoking Should Not Be Prison Offense
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001207120607.05027eb0@mail.olywa.net>
Newshawk: Cannabis News - marijuana, hemp, and cannabis news
Pubdate: Wed, 06 Dec 2000
Source: Reuters
Copyright: 2000 Reuters Limited.
CLINTON: POT SMOKING SHOULD NOT BE PRISON OFFENSE
President Clinton, who tried to avoid the stigma of smoking marijuana by
saying he never "inhaled," tells Rolling Stone magazine that people should
not be jailed for using or selling small amounts of the drug.
In an interview with the rock magazine released on Wednesday, Clinton was
asked if he thought that "people should go to jail for using or even
selling small amounts of marijuana?"
Clinton, who raised eyebrows in the 1992 presidential primary campaign when
he admitted trying the drug but adding he didn't inhale, told the magazine,
"I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in
some places, and should be."
He added, "We really need a reexamination of our entire policy on
imprisonment. Some people deliberately hurt other people and they ought to
be in jail because they can't be trusted to be on the streets. Some people
do things that are so serious that that they have to be put in jail to
discourage other people from doing similar things.
"But a lot of people are in prison because they have drug problems or
alcohol problems and too many of them are getting out -- particularly out
of state systems -- without treatment, without education, without skills,
without serious efforts at job placement."
The interview, to be published on Friday, only weeks before Clinton leaves
office, was conducted during the presidential campaign and Clinton made a
prediction that has not come true and may not come true -- that Vice
President Al Gore would carry Florida.
"Gore will win Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. I always thought Gore
would win Florida. We worked like crazy there for eight years. And we've
done a lot for Florida and a lot with Florida -- and Joe Lieberman has
helped a lot in Florida. So I think Gore will win." That matter is still in
the courts even though Florida has certified Republican George W. Bush the
winner.
In the interview, Clinton also blamed his impeachment in the Monica
Lewinsky scandal on the work of a right-wing Congress and said special
prosecutor Kenneth Starr "did what he was paid to." He added, "The right
wing was in control of the Congress and ... they thought they had a free
shot to put a hit on me, and so they did. I don't think it's complicated."
Note: President Clinton, who tried to avoid the stigma of smoking marijuana
by saying he never "inhaled," tells Rolling Stone magazine that people
should not be jailed for using or selling small amounts of the drug.
_____________________________________________
Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
---
MAP posted-by: Jo-D
www.crrh.org
