POT LOBBYISTS END SEASON 13-3 AGAINST JUSTICE DEPT, CUSTOMS, OTHERS

AMY ARGETSINGER AND ROXANNE ROBERTS, WASHINGTON POST –  The new team in

first place in the Congressional Softball League? None other than

Washington’s marijuana lobbyists. . . . The One Hitters — a team

sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the National

Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and related advocacy

groups — had by last week amassed a 13-3 record and vaulted to the top

of the league, which includes teams from the RNC, DNC, Justice, Customs

and Border Protection Service and the Pharmaceutical Research and

Manufacturers of America. “This effectively shatters the notion that

drug policy reformers are just a bunch of lazy ‘stoners,’ ” SSDP’s Tom

Angell wrote to us. . .

Two years ago, the team fielded by the White House’s Office of National

Drug Control Policy refused to play the One Hitters — first pleading

scheduling problems but later copping to ideological concerns. . .

And when they celebrate after the game? “The only substances you’ll find

on our team is beer,” Krane said.

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