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Newsbrief:
Justice
Department
Ends
Appeal
of
Ruling
Throwing
Out
Ban
on
Transit
Ads
for
Marijuana
Law
Reform
1/28/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/372/climate.shtml
The Justice Department gave
up this week on efforts to keep alive a congressionally-imposed ban on
marijuana advocacy ads on mass transit systems. Originating with
Oklahoma Republican Senator Ernest Istook, who ramrodded the law through
Congress in response to a campaign by Change
the Climate that placed ads calling for marijuana law reform on Washington,
DC, buses and subway stops, the law
was thrown out as an unconstitutional abridgement of free speech rights
by US District Court Judge Paul Friedman in June ().
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Change The Climate's
controversial subway ad
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This week, Acting Solicitor
General Paul Clement sent letters to lawyers for the House and Senate saying
Friedman's decision would not be appealed because "the government does
not have a viable argument to advance in the statute's defense."
The Istook bill sought to
effectively censor pro-drug reform ads by taking away federal funds from
any transit system that displayed them. As a result, the Washington
Metro Area Transit Authority refused to run the ads. Change the Climate,
aided and abetted by the ACLU
Drug Policy Project, the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and the Marijuana
Policy Project, filed the suit resulting in the favorable June ruling.
And now the feds have given
up the ghost on this issue.
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