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Newsbrief:
Kerry
Says
Feds
Should
Butt
Out
of
Oregon
Laws
10/22/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/359/oregon.shtml
Democratic presidential candidate
Sen. John Kerry told a Portland TV station Thursday that the federal government
should not interfere with Oregon's assisted suicide and medical marijuana
laws. Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft has challenged
the state's assisted suicide law, while officials from the Office of National
Drug Control Policy have been in the state recently campaigning against
the medical marijuana initiative on the November ballot.
"Individual states have the
right to make a decision until the federal government has made another
one, and we don't have the information to make that, period," Kerry told
Northwest NewsChannel 8.
While Kerry endorsed the
principle that Oregonians should be able to make up their own minds on
issues like medical marijuana and assisted suicide, he did not specifically
endorse the Oregon Medical Marijuana Initiative II (http://www.yeson33.org),
which would deepen the state's existing medical marijuana program by increasing
allowable quantities and setting up a system of dispensaries.
Oregon is one of handful
of remaining battleground states in the presidential election. Of
six polls of Oregon voters conducted in the last two weeks, Kerry led in
five, with margins ranging from 1% to 8%.
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