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New "Just Say Now" campaign suggests growing marijuana legalization coalition

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Huffington Post report, which is headlined "'Just Say Now': Left-Right Coalition Launches Campaign To Legalize Pot," there is a new coaltion that is making a forceful push for marijuana legalization.  The new group has taken on a name that is an intriguing riff on the famous "just say no" anti-drug campaign from the 1980s, and here some details: A transpartisan coalition of prosecutors, judges, cops, students, bloggers and political operatives on both sides of the aisle launched a campaign Tuesday to bring an end to marijuana prohibition, focusing on ballot initiatives in 2010 and 2012. The campaign, "Just Say Now," gets its name from Nancy Reagan's iconic anti-drug slogan from the 1980s that has become synonymous with the government's black-and-white approach to drug policy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).