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Name:
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Rudy Giuliani
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Title: |
Former Mayor of New York City
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Medical Marijuana
Position: |
Con
to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
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Reasoning: |
"I checked with the FDA [Food and Drug Administration]. The FDA says marijuana has no additive medical benefit of any kind, that the illegal trafficking of marijuana is so great that it makes much more sense to keep it illegal. I will keep it illegal."
"Your Guide to the Candidates' Views on Medical Marijuana: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY)," Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana website (accessed Oct. 30, 2007)
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Credibility
Ranking: |
Experts
PhD's and JD's (lawyers) with significant post-doctoral involvement in medical marijuana issues; judges who have presided over medical marijuana cases.
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| 6. |
Involvement: |
- 2008 Republican Candidate for U.S. President
- Member of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, Apr.-May 2006
- Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001
- Appointed US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1983
- Named Associate Attorney General, 1981
- Appointed Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General, 1975
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Education: |
- JD, New York University Law School, 1968
- BA, Manhattan College, 1965
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Relevant Affiliations/Honors: |
- Became a name partner in the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani, 2005
- Established Giuliani Partners, consulting firm in the fields of emergency preparedness, public safety, crisis management, energy and health care, 2002
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Contact Info: |
| Phone: 212-835-9449 (Campaign) |
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Fax: None found |
| E-Mail:
webteam@joinrudy2008.com
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| Web Site: www.joinrudy2008.com
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Other: |
As Associate Deputy Attorney General, his first high-profile prosecution was of U.S. Representative Bertram L. Podell (NY-13), who was convicted of corruption
As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he indicted eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families", under the RICO Act on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire
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