Attorney General Suthers asked to sign ethics pledge and refrain from interfering in 2012 campaign

The campaign held a news conference today to highlight the hypocrisy of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who vigorously advocated against a marijuana reform initiative in 2006, but on Friday called the director of the state's Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division "unethical" for discussing the potentially harmful impact of initiatives that would ban medical marijuana dispensaries. 

We expect Attorney General Suthers to abide by his own ethical standards and remain silent during next year's ballot initiative campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol, and we have asked him to sign a pledge to do so.  CLICK HERE to take action and send Suthers a (courteous) message urging him to sign the pledge.

The pledge reads:

I, John Suthers, will behave ethically during the 2012 election season, and will refrain from encouraging voters to oppose the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

In 2006, Suthers wrote op-eds encouraging voters to oppose Amendment 44, joined uniformed police officers at press conferences, and participated in debates to speak out against the initiative.  And these were not educational efforts; they were efforts to spread exaggerations and distort reality in order to scare people away from supporting reform.  Apparently Suthers lives in a bizarre world where it is ethical for him to propagandize during one initiative campaign, but unethical for someone else to tell the truth during another.

Please CLICK HERE to take action and encourage Attorney General Suthers to sign the pledge to remain "ethical" during the 2012 initiative campaign and refrain from encouraging voters to oppose the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Initiative.