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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also allow doctors to "prescribe" pot without fear of prosecution--or merely to recommend it, without committing themselves to a note pad. Though the change would not overrule federal or state laws that criminalize the recreational use of marijuana, Prop 215 would provide voter-approved legal backing for patients or doctors who were hauled into court. A poll shows that California voters favor it by about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIJUANA: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S FIRE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...ballot measure. Other opponents include law-enforcement agencies, drug-abuse programs, California's Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey. "This proposition is not about medicine," charges Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates, co-chairman of Citizens for a Drug-Free California, the campaign opposing Prop 215. "It's about the legalization of marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIJUANA: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S FIRE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Opponents say they have raised only $30,000 to defeat the measure. The war chest in favor of Prop 215 tops $1 million, much of it from sympathetic tycoons. On the recommendation of Baba Ram Dass, the spiritual leader who works with aids patients, Laurance S. Rockefeller contributed $50,000. Global financier George Soros has contributed $350,000. With deep pockets like those behind it, the fight over medical marijuana could easily go national next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIJUANA: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S FIRE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the globalization of trade, is making it much harder for the stodgy Japanese bureaucrats to maintain the country's advantage. In fact, Japan's mandarins have kept borrowing to prop up the economy with massive public-works projects, running the national debt up to nearly $4 trillion--just about as much as the GDP--by far the worst record in the developed world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS HE RUNNING INTO A WALL? | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A PEACE THAT TERRIFIES | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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