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A 4 page overview of California's approach to combating the problems caused by illicit drugs. Noting such laws as three-strikes-you're-out alongside the state's emphasis on treatment centers for non-violent offenders, the author concludes that California policy is based on considerations revolving around measures that best protect the interests of California's citizenry. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: AM2_PPdrgCal.rtf
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its policies on drugs, California is one of the more determined states in terms of dealing with drug users and dealers. Granted, California is one of ten states (alongside
Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, and Nevada) that have passed laws that allow their residents to grow and use marijuana for medical reasons. The state is more
than aggressive, however, in the manner that it deals with illicit drugs. The states relentless pursuit and the August 2004 arrest of medical marijuana activist Charles "Eddy" Lepp who,
in addition to his lobbying for drug law reform in California was also involved with a twenty acre operation growing marijuana in California for the purported purpose of meeting the
needs of those that had a medicinal need of the drug (Anderson, 2004), demonstrates that California makes a clear distinction between legal and illegal drug related activities. Richard Meyer,
a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman, clarifies that the 1996 California law making it legal for some individuals to use marijuana for medical reasons:
"does not make it legal to sell marijuana...Nor is marijuana a legitimate drug under federal law" (Anderson, 2004).
The California law allowing the medical use of marijuana operates under the full recognition that marijuana
is considered a Schedule I drug under federal law. It cannot even be officially prescribed (Sahlberg, 2004). Instead, the medical use of marijuana in California and other states
where such use is allowed is only "authorized" (Sahlberg, 2004). California and these other states face a dilemma, however, in that not only are they required to meet
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