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Group wants drug czar to report Nevada campaign expenses
04-29 | 13:34 PDT CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) | SF Gate

An organization backing a state initiative to legalize small amounts of marijuana has filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to force U.S. drug czar John Walters to file expense reports when campaigning against the issue in Nevada.

The Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project argued in court documents filed April 22 that Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval was wrong when his office said Walters did not have to submit an expense list when he campaigned against a similar drug initiative proposed during the 2002 election.

Walters already has campaigned in Nevada this year against the latest marijuana initiative.

The group argues that those who support or oppose initiatives must file expense and contribution reports with the secretary of state's office.

"At this point we're following the advice of the attorney general," Renee Parker, chief deputy secretary of state, said Wednesday.

Marijuana Policy Project filed a complaint in 2002 with Heller's office on Walters' conduct during that election season. The organization argued Walters traveled to Nevada in October of that year "with security detail in tow" to challenge the ballot issue.

The group had asked Heller to require Walters to file a campaign report or be subject to a fine of up to $5,000. Walters did not file a campaign report.

A federal lawyer for Walters argued the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy was exempt from Nevada law.

The state attorney general's office followed up with an opinion that Walters did not have to file campaign expense and contribution reports because he was acting within the scope of his federal duties when he appeared in Nevada in 2002.

The 2002 initiative was defeated by 305,479 votes to 196,571.

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[zombienote: Compare the Newspaper version above with the TV News version below. The assertion can be made that newspapers cater to the literate, while TV news caters to the "less literate".

TV is arguably the more powerful medium, and this story is simply gutted for TV news.]
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Group wants drug czar to report Nevada campaign expenses
CARSON CITY, NV, April 29 | krnv.com

An organization backing a state initiative to legalize small amounts of marijuana has filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to force the nation's drug czar to file expense reports when campaigning against the issue in Nevada.

Marijuana Policy Project is arguing that Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval was wrong when his office said drug czar John Walters did not have to submit an expense list when he campaigned against a similar initiative in 2002.

The group argues that those who support or oppose initiatives must file expense and contribution reports with the secretary of state's office.

Walters has already campaigned in Nevada this year against the latest marijuana initiative.

[zombienote: That's all folks!

See: GAO greenlights White House Interference in election.]

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According to Title 21, Chapter 22, Section 1712, on Sept.* 30, 2003, the chapter and the amendments in U.S.* Code that funded John Walters' agency were repealed, including the provisions in Section 1713 that authorized the secretary of state, attorney general, secretary of agriculture, secretary of defense, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to collude with multibillion-dollar conglomerate chemical manufacturers and private military contractors to develop and spray herbicides to "eliminate illicit narcotics crops," specifically coca, cannabis and opium poppy in the United States and foreign countries.

The very fact that coca, poppies and marijuana farming proliferates in ever greater proportions across regional boundaries and international borders should be enough evidence that such policies are at least ill advised, and likely involve criminal collusion with companies whose products would otherwise have to compete in a fair and open market. "

- me

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18732.shtml#2

Sen. James Leddy, D-Chittenden, chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, also took Barthwell to task on her stance.

"We heard nothing that was an alternative for these people's pain and suffering, so we struggle to understand where the hoax is," Leddy told Barthwell. "They are seeking desperate relief from pain and nausea. The government says the cruel hoax is taking the plant and using it in an illegal way... You are making a statement that based on the testimony we heard is not credible to the committee."

from: http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18746.shtml#1

See also my take on Niteshift's current assertions:

http://www.marijuana.com/420/showthr...880#post287880