Well now here's a first.

Marijuana initiative proponent David Boyer has challenged Edward Googins, the South Portland Chief of Police to a "drug duel."

According to a press release from the Marijuana Policy Project, "Boyer will be in the Mill Creek Park gazebo at high noon on Wednesday prepared to take a hit of marijuana for every shot of alcohol consumed by Googins, to see who will be the last man standing for a previously scheduled debate for 7 p.m. that evening."

The South Portland Police Chief has yet to accept the challenge or respond.

On this election day, in both South Portland and Lewiston, a citizen-initiated referendum question will ask whether residents are in favor of an ordinance that would make it legal for citizens 21 and older to use marijuana and posses up to an ounce of the drug.

In a Bangor Daily News article a couple of days ago, Chief Googins said that marijuana  “continues to create and perpetuate other problems. Claims that marijuana is safer than alcohol are so bogus it’s not even funny.”

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David Boyer says that he'll be at the Gazebo with "enough alcohol to kill a man," and that event will "prove once and for all that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol."

“It is one thing for Chief Googins to speak out against the initiative, but it’s another for him to speak out against science,” said Boyer, Maine Political Director for the Marijuana Policy Project. “It is shocking that he would publicly declare that alcohol poses less harm to consumers than marijuana. It’s on par with a government official announcing broccoli is not healthier than cheeseburgers."

The 7 p.m. debate will happen at South Portland High School.

 

 

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