Dr. ALPHA BROWN TAKES MARIJUANA
on with 5,000 Signs

TOPIC: Initiative 59 sends bad message to kids about marijuana and blunt (packed cigars) use — “If its legal, it must be okay!”

WHO: Risking votes, Dr. Alpha Brown steps out of candidacy to alert parents to the dangers of promoting drug legalization.

WHAT: POSTING 5,000 Large Red SIGNS Citywide —“LEGALIZING DRUGS SENDS BAD MESSAGE TO KIDS”

WHY: City candidates and leaders favor legalizing marijuana for political reasons, disregarding direct carcinogenic dangers to users, folly of enforcement, and children’s misperceived endorsement of all use. Ballot Initiative 59 is favored by mayoral candidates Carol Schwartz and Tony Williams as well as by D.C. Council members Jack Evans, Kevin Chavous, Charlene Drew Jarvis, David Catania, et al. In a city where prevention is abysmally low due to cuts to D.C. Addiction Prevention, Recovery Admin. by the CFO, City Council, and Mayor; where legal alcohol and tobacco signs blight neighborhoods and tempt children citywide, it is sinful to support such a dangerous initiative just for votes. There is little conscience among City leaders!

(1) VIABLE PHARMACEUTICAL ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE
Qualified patients are prescribed for Marinol™, a pill form of Tetrahydro-cannibinol [THC], without the carcinogens of smoked marijuana.

(2) D.C’s DRUG USE ALREADY AT EPIDEMIC PROPORTION
D.C. has highest level of alcohol and other drug use. After cuts, backed by Williams and OK’d by the Council and Mayor, already inadequate treatment worsened for the city’s 65,000 addicts and 40,000 additional alcoholics.

(3) TOO MANY LOOPHOLES for LEGAL ENFORCEABILITY
Under Initiative 59, four people can grow marijuana for a patient without a prescription — a verbal say so from a doctor will suffice.

WHEN: Signs To Be Posted Starting — October 26, 1998

WHERE: THROUGHOUT Washington, D.C.