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Jay Leno shows a Clinton look-alike smoking a bong.


Drug addicts can't get clean needles, furthering the AIDS epidemic.

# "AIDS VIRUS FEEDS ON FEDERAL NEEDLE POLICY"
# By Steven Wishnia, High Times Magazine, July 1997
#
# No federal action is planned to end the ban on federal funding for needle
# exchange programs by the Clinton Administration, despite mounting scienti-
# fic evidence that shooting up with unclean needles is the second most
# common risk behavior (40%) for HIV infection.
#
# It is a very cost-effective way of saving lives.
#
# SIX federally funded studies done between 1991 to 1995 concluded that
# needle exchange programs reduce HIV transmission and do not encourage
# drug use.
#
# Someone who spoke with Senator Arlene Spector said that "Noone's willing
# to take the political step."
#
# Instead, the biggest federal funding for AIDS prevention in 1996 went to
# programs urging teenagers to abstain from sex ["have sex outside marriage
# and you could DIE"].
#
# The National Institute of Health concluded: "The behavior placing the
# public health at greatest risk may be occurring in legislative and other
# decision making bodies. Millions of unnecessary deaths will occur as a
# result."
#
# The Surgeon General has the power to revoke