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Nov. 4, 2002
The New Politics Of Pot
CAN IT GO LEGIT? How the people who brought you medical marijuana have set their sights on lifting the ban for everyone
By JOEL STEIN/LAS VEGAS
The drug czar is ready for pro wrestling. He already has the name, and now he's got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has a problem with billionaire philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis and John Sperling, who have bankrolled the pro-pot movement, and he wants everyone to know he's ready for battle. At an Elks lodge meeting in Las Vegas, he ticks off their names and says, " These people use...
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