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5/10/01
Washington, DC
Arkansas Republican, Asa Hutchinson - a drug war hawk who supports jailing individuals who post information pertaining to drugs on the Internet - was announced yesterday as President Bush's pick to head the Drug Enforcement Administration. Hutchinson's nomination follows the appointment of John P. Walters - a fellow hard-liner who favors incarceration over treatment for drug offenders - as the nation's Drug Czar.Hutchinson, who is currently serving his third term in Congress, is known for his harsh views toward drugs and drug offenders. He advocates increased funding for drug interdiction - arguing that "we have to have a commitment of resources, yes enormous resources, in this country to win this war" - and has criticized recent increases in federal spending on drug treatment programs. "Elimination (of drugs and drug use) - not containment - should be our goal. ... We cannot win this war ... simply by putting money in demand reduction," he argues.
Hutchinson angered free-speech advocates in 1999 by co-sponsoring legislation (H.R. 2987) that sought to impose a ten-year felony sentence (!!!!!!!!) on anyone who communicates, by any means, "information pertaining to ... controlled substances." (Sec. 421) The statute's purposely vague wording would have applied to any website, magazine, or book containing information on a range of drug-related topics, including procuring medical marijuana, sterilizing needles, steroid usage, methamphetamine manufacturing, and hemp fiber cultivation.
After media outcry against the measure, the language was eventually eliminated from the bill (though it remained in the Senate's version).
Hutchinson is a vocal supporter of expanding the U.S. military presence in Latin America under the guise of interdicting drugs, and was a staunch proponent of last year's controversial 1.3 billion dollar military aid package to Columbia, ostensibly to fund anti-drug efforts. The aid package provided Columbia with 65 U.S. Black Hawk and Huey II helicopters, and included funding for crop fumigation and Columbian army battalion training. Hutchinson backed his decision on CNN's "Crossfire", maintaining "It's incumbent upon us to assist our neighbors in really fighting our war."
Critics of the funding package argue that the aid could have been better spent on domestic drug treatment programs, noting that the cost of buying the helicopters alone ($400 million) could have treated 200,000 addicts in the U.S.
Hutchinson vehemently opposes the use of medicinal marijuana by seriously ill patients, even in those states that have legalized its use. In 1999, he backed legislation preventing Washington DC from implementing a ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana - even though it had been approved by 70 percent of District voters.
He also opposed funding a 1999 Institute of Medicine study on marijuana's medical potential, arguing that such research may compromise the war on drugs. "A study of marijuana's medicinal effectiveness is absolutely the wrong way to go on this issue," he told Congress in 1997. "It sends the wrong message to young people."
The IOM study opposed by Hutchinson concluded: "Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs ... for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation. ... Except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range tolerated for other medications."
THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MIGHT LIKE TO READ THIS SHIT, JUST WHAT WE FUCKING NEED!! BE SAFE ALL.
EAST_COAST_BODYBUILDER
News/Current Events Front Page News
5/10/01
Washington, DC
Arkansas Republican, Asa Hutchinson - a drug war hawk who supports jailing individuals who post information pertaining to drugs on the Internet - was announced yesterday as President Bush's pick to head the Drug Enforcement Administration. Hutchinson's nomination follows the appointment of John P. Walters - a fellow hard-liner who favors incarceration over treatment for drug offenders - as the nation's Drug Czar.Hutchinson, who is currently serving his third term in Congress, is known for his harsh views toward drugs and drug offenders. He advocates increased funding for drug interdiction - arguing that "we have to have a commitment of resources, yes enormous resources, in this country to win this war" - and has criticized recent increases in federal spending on drug treatment programs. "Elimination (of drugs and drug use) - not containment - should be our goal. ... We cannot win this war ... simply by putting money in demand reduction," he argues.
Hutchinson angered free-speech advocates in 1999 by co-sponsoring legislation (H.R. 2987) that sought to impose a ten-year felony sentence (!!!!!!!!) on anyone who communicates, by any means, "information pertaining to ... controlled substances." (Sec. 421) The statute's purposely vague wording would have applied to any website, magazine, or book containing information on a range of drug-related topics, including procuring medical marijuana, sterilizing needles, steroid usage, methamphetamine manufacturing, and hemp fiber cultivation.
After media outcry against the measure, the language was eventually eliminated from the bill (though it remained in the Senate's version).
Hutchinson is a vocal supporter of expanding the U.S. military presence in Latin America under the guise of interdicting drugs, and was a staunch proponent of last year's controversial 1.3 billion dollar military aid package to Columbia, ostensibly to fund anti-drug efforts. The aid package provided Columbia with 65 U.S. Black Hawk and Huey II helicopters, and included funding for crop fumigation and Columbian army battalion training. Hutchinson backed his decision on CNN's "Crossfire", maintaining "It's incumbent upon us to assist our neighbors in really fighting our war."
Critics of the funding package argue that the aid could have been better spent on domestic drug treatment programs, noting that the cost of buying the helicopters alone ($400 million) could have treated 200,000 addicts in the U.S.
Hutchinson vehemently opposes the use of medicinal marijuana by seriously ill patients, even in those states that have legalized its use. In 1999, he backed legislation preventing Washington DC from implementing a ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana - even though it had been approved by 70 percent of District voters.
He also opposed funding a 1999 Institute of Medicine study on marijuana's medical potential, arguing that such research may compromise the war on drugs. "A study of marijuana's medicinal effectiveness is absolutely the wrong way to go on this issue," he told Congress in 1997. "It sends the wrong message to young people."
The IOM study opposed by Hutchinson concluded: "Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs ... for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation. ... Except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range tolerated for other medications."
THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MIGHT LIKE TO READ THIS SHIT, JUST WHAT WE FUCKING NEED!! BE SAFE ALL.
EAST_COAST_BODYBUILDER
Maybe this idiot won't get confirmed.
..how ironic.
