Pot lobbyists target conservatives in New York legalization drive

[MiaCulpa]

Source: The Raw Story

Since 1996, 12 US states have enacted legislation permitting medical use of marijuana, prescribed under the supervision of a doctor, to patients who are seriously ill. Earlier this month, the Marijuana Policy Project, a top D.C. pot lobby group, announced it had designs on number 13: New York.

While it is no surprise that New York and its blue-tinged electorate would make a logical target for the medical legalization push -- not to mention a nice East Coast bookend for advocates' successes in California ten years ago -- the pot policy group's tactics in the Empire State are not so predictable.

They're wooing conservatives.

"We're focusing on Republicans in New York swing districts," the group's communications director, Bruce Mirken, told RAW STORY. "Places where these people are not dead certain they're going to win their elections."

Read more: http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Pot_lobbyists_target_conservatives_in_New_0925.html

[rurallib]

1. Tax it and balance the budget.

[fedupfisherman]

2. Agreed

A nice tax on medical marijuana.

Use it to pay for childrens healthcare

[bagimin]

3. The biggest no-brainer

in the history of earth!

[KurtNYC]

4. if it was legal, you could grow your own -- no tax, no revenue

it takes no effort to grow. In fact a car wash operator was cited for growing because the place where they empty the vaccuum cleaner had some run off from the hoses also and plants grew there consistently. They cited him for not keeping it cut down.

[Zhade]

5. makes sense - conservatives are the ones most ill-informed about this beneficial plant.

You see them here sometimes, spewing total bullshit about "cancer", "stupidity" and "addiction". All untrue, of course.

Go MPP (says a proud donor)!