Pubdate: Sun, 15 Jan 2006
Source: North County Times (Escondido, CA)
Copyright: 2006 North County Times
Contact:  http://www.nctimes.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1080
Note: Gives LTE priority to North San Diego County and Southwest 
Riverside County residents
Author: Bruce Mirken
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n038/a10.html?274061

WAKE-UP CALL MAY COME AT BALLOT BOX

San Diego County supervisors who claim to distrust new poll results 
showing that county voters strongly support Proposition 215 need to 
do their homework ("Marijuana group's survey says voters oppose 
supervisors' lawsuit," Jan. 10). This new Evans/McDonough poll, 
commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project, is absolutely 
consistent with state and national polling on medical marijuana going 
back two decades.

For example, in January 2004, the statewide Field Poll reported that 
74 percent of California voters supported Prop. 215, a large increase 
since the measure passed in 1996. Field's official summary of the 
poll noted, "Voter support for the implementation of Prop. 215 cuts 
across all partisan, ideological and age subgroups of the state."

The next wake-up call the supervisors get may come at the ballot box.

BRUCE MIRKEN,

Director of communications Marijuana Policy Project, San Francisco
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