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NY
Attorney
General
Candidates
Admit
Past
Marijuana
Use
9/11/98
Three out of the four Democratic
candidates for New York Attorney General, the highest law enforcement post
in the state, have admitted that they smoked marijuana in their youth.
Eliot Spitzer, Catherine Abate and Evan Davis have all confirmed prior
use of the Schedule I substance, while the fourth candidate, Oliver Koppel,
will not comment at all.
Davis' use seems to have
negatively impacted his memory, as he says, "Maybe three, four times, something
like that, in the late 60's, mid-60's, maybe early 70's -- I can't remember
the dates -- I smoked marijuana... I never bought it, it was always at
parties." Abate, a Vassar College student and anti-war activist in
the 60's, admits to smoking it but says that she now tells her 19 year-old
son to do otherwise. Spitzer, a Princeton grad who has promised,
if elected, to abolish New York's draconian Rockefeller drug laws, fessed
up. "Absolutely. With pride, at the time." Mike Zabel,
spokesman for incumbent Republican Dennis Vacco, who opposes even the medicinal
use of marijuana, cut off inquiring journalists on the issue. "Never" he
said.
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Issue #58, 9/11/98
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