Again, here come the drug legalizers, with their deep pockets and
half-truths, all manner of lies.

In 1996, they used $1.5 million from a few millionaires to buy Proposition
200 in Arizona. That con was sold as the compassionate "medicalization of
marijuana." The dopers failed to mention their law also "medicalized"
heroin, LSD and several cousins of PCP and meth.

And you thought Walgreens had a field day selling Viagra.

Thankfully, this push to legitimize hard drugs marked the one time in memory
our 90 Dwarfs stood tall: The Legislature trumped Prop. 200 with House Bill
2518. Said law kept it illegal to prescribe pot, heroin, acid, etc., until
Congress or the FDA and DEA signed off on marijuana to fight illness.

This history lesson leads us to Election '98 and the latest pro-drug calumny.

Their new initiative is called Prop. 300. This time, the drug peddlers need
a few hundred thousand dupes to vote "no." That "no" would gut HB 2518, and
implement Prop. 200 in full-flower.

Would allow 116 drugs

Not just "medicalized pot." Prescribed heroin. Prescribed LSD. Prescribed
legitimacy for all 116 Schedule I drugs. All addicts would need are two
quacks to agree in writing, plus some "scientific research" the law never
defines.

As I said, keep that truth in mind. Repeat it over and again: Not pot alone.
Heroin, LSD and 113 drugs besides.

Tell a friend, too, because the dopers have sued the state to strike those
words from an analysis in the election publicity pamphlet and from the Nov.
3 ballot.

"Plaintiffs," they rant in one of two lawsuits, "seek to correct inaccurate,
incomplete and biased language that is about to be printed in the publicity
pamphlet for the upcoming general election, and that grossly distorts the
meaning and significance of a referendum measure to be voted on by the people."

This from the same con artists who used ads starring glaucoma victims to
sneak heroin into the mainstream. The alleged distortion in question:

"(Prop. 200) allowed medical doctors to prescribe 116 Schedule I drugs, such
as heroin, LSD, marijuana and PCP . . . "

Sure, it's exactly true. But that clause -- used twice in the pamphlet's
analysis section and once on the ballot -- strikes the dopers as biased.
Their lawyer, John Tuchi, notes that PCP is a Schedule II drug -- three
derivatives are Schedule I -- and complains that the mere mention of
"heroin" inflames.

The pro-drug solution? Only say "marijuana." Or, better yet, use the phrase
"Schedule I drugs."

Do me a favor, Tuchi. Name a dozen Schedule I drugs.

"No, I can't name what the Schedule I drugs are. . . . I have no idea."

Neither does anyone else, which explains the dopers' lawsuit and campaign
strategy: Keep it vague, keep the electorate uninformed. Then smuggle in a
drug-loaded Trojan horse come Election Day.

Pushers find no shame

Rep. Mike Gardner lobbied the Legislative Council to add that clause to the
analysis. "That's a ridiculous argument, to say the public doesn't have the
right to know that Schedule I drugs also means heroin, LSD and analogs of PCP."

Ridiculous or no, millionaire drug advocates like John Sperling and George
Soros find no shame in shouting it loud. No surprise there. In Washington
state last year, they spent another $1.5 million to float the same
soft-peddling of drugs. Their foes -- outspent 15 to 1 -- seized on the
heroin angle. The prop flamed out, 60 percent to 40 percent.

"They learned from that. They don't want the truth to be used in this
particular battle," says Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, a member of
Arizonans Against Heroin, the group seeking "yes" votes to sink the dopers'
latest scheme. "It's a fraud. Actually, fraud's too nice a word. It's
another lie."

Sure is. You'd have to be stoned to fall for it. Or on heroin or LSD, or any
one of 116 drugs no can name.

If the dopers win, you will indeed get that chance.

Checked-by: Melodi Cornett