Pubdate: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 Source: New York Post (NY) Copyright: 2001 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. Contact: http://nypostonline.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/296 Author: David Seifman Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) POL POT BUSTED FOR LIGHTING UP August 25, 2001 -- The Libertarian Party candidate for Manhattan borough president - running on a platform to legalize cannabis - has been arrested for smoking the banned weed on an East Village street. Scott Jeffrey, 33, was nabbed Thursday night at 9:45 p.m. after he left a restaurant at East Sixth Street and First Avenue and lit up a joint, police said. Jeffrey, a Princeton graduate and software developer, is a longtime marijuana activist. "Jeffrey never forgot his roots and never sold out to corporate America," he says on his campaign Web site. - --- MAP posted-by: Terry Liittschwager