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Article: Pot shots in the war on drugs: 'Doonesbury' mixes it up over marijuana.(cartoon strip; California's Prop 215 to legalize marijuana for certain medical patients)
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- Newsweek
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- October 14, 1996
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`Doonesbury' mixes it up over marijuana
DAN LUNGHEN INSISTS THAT HE HAS a sense of humor. But when the buttoned-down California state attorney general got an eyeful of last week's "Doonesbury" series, his funny bone--and his temper--snapped. The comic strip's subject: marijuana. Or, more specifically, California ballot initiative No. 215, which would allow people with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses to cultivate and smoke pot to ease their discomfort. "Man, it sounds like Prop 215 could change everything for us!" said Zonker Harris, "Doonesbury's" goateed slacker hero. That's what worries Lungren. "No one should be laughing. These strips contribute to the ...