Pubdate:8-23-98
Source: Orange County Register (CA)
Contact:  http://www.ocregister.com/

FROM AROUND THE COUNTY

Let me see if I have this straight. An undercover narcotics officer posing
as a cancer patient can legally arrest Marvin Chavez after the people of
California voted for Proposition 215,the medical marijuana initiative. The
same tactic used by the FBI to snag corrupt politicians taking bribes,
however, was ruled illegal in the aftermath of ABSCAM. I guess it's OK to
arrest a cancer patient looking for some pain relief but not OK to arrest
corrupt politicians falling all over each other to grab illegal money.
Sadly, it seems, the rule of law is dead and the monarchy lives.

Mike Villano-Aliso Viejo

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