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  Pro-Pot Governor Debates DEA Chief
Posted by FoM on September 11, 2001 at 08:14:12 PT
By Matt Mygatt, Associated Press 
Source: Dallas Morning News 

DEA Gov. Gary Johnson favors regulating marijuana – in the way that tobacco is. The head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration says that would amount to a boon for cigarette companies.

"If you like what the tobacco companies did in marketing to our teens and marketing to adults in selling their product, wait until they get a hold of marijuana cigarettes," Asa Hutchinson said Monday in a debate with Mr. Johnson.

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Comment #4 posted by Patrick on September 11, 2001 at 16:55:05 PT
sled
If you can post your tape somewhere today it would should take the edge of today's news. Peace man

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Comment #3 posted by Jose Melendez on September 11, 2001 at 16:06:20 PT:

SLED! Post the tape!
Hey Sled,

Go ahead and post the recording you've got, before they spin this...

If you don't have a place to post it online then email me; I'll post the audio file on narcosoft.com and email clips everywhere...

jose@narcosoft.com

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Comment #2 posted by Sled on September 11, 2001 at 11:49:40 PT
The Debate - The Rest Of The Story
I was there. Hutch stuck with the usual line & the Gov. wiped the
floor with him. The crowd was overwhelmingly friendly toward the Gov.
& reform. Drew strong applause for the Gov. & boos for Hutch. An
occasional very light applause for Hutch. Only his agents & cronies
supported him at all & there were only a few of them present.

If anything, Hutch got laughed at more than anything & it wasn't all
reformers there by any means. A lot of gray heads in the audience &
they supported reform.

Hutch stuck to the latest buzzwords, with "traffickers" his favorite.
No doubt, he watched the movie & that's all that he came away with.

IMHO, he didn't take the Gov. seriously prior to debate, didn't have a
clue what the Gov.'s positions were, thought everyone there would be
for his position, walked into a minefield, & stepped on every mine in
sight.

He was flustered, completely bereft of knowledge of this subject,
became red-faced a number of times, & blew the whole thing, so what
else is new. The guy is way out of his league.

I made a tape of the whole thing, even though they requested that
everyone turn of any recorders. I'm sure I'm not alone. With all the
video cameras in evidence, I think a a clandestine copy should be
available shortly.

C-Span taped it for later broadcast & if they don't censor it heavily,
you'll be very pleasantly surprised.

Hutch got his ass kicked & then some.

Live from the front.....

Sled



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Comment #1 posted by Jose Melendez on September 11, 2001 at 08:28:26 PT:

Asa knows he is wrong...
"If you like what the tobacco companies did in marketing to our teens and marketing to adults in selling their product, wait until they get a hold of marijuana cigarettes"

Let's explore that. 400,000 lung cancer deaths each year due to tobacco, 0 for pot...


I still think they realize that MORE people would live longer if mj were legalized, that's why they are against it, because they'd then have to pay an extra 20 years per person of medical expenses, Social Security...


Expose the lie.


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