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'''Tim Burchett''' is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Tennessee Senate|Tennessee state senator]] from [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]], representing District 7, part of [[Knox County, Tennessee|Knox County]]. He was previously a member of the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]]. In 1999, Burchett received national media attention for sponsoring a bill that simplified the eating of road kill, or animals killed by vehicles [http://www.oakridger.com/stories/051499/stt_0515990005.html], which has often been mischaracterized as legalizing the eating of roadkill. In fact, eating roadkill is legal in most states, but Burchett's bill allows those eating roadkill to notify the county game warden after the fact, rather than before, with the implication being that the animal carcass need not rot while waiting for the game warden.
'''Tim Burchett''' is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Tennessee Senate|Tennessee state senator]] from [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]], representing District 7, part of [[Knox County, Tennessee|Knox County]]. He was previously a member of the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]]. In 1999, Burchett received national media attention for sponsoring a bill that simplified the eating of road kill, or animals killed by vehicles [http://www.oakridger.com/stories/051499/stt_0515990005.html], which has often been mischaracterized as legalizing the eating of roadkill. In fact, eating roadkill is legal in most states, but Burchett's bill allows those eating roadkill to notify the county game warden after the fact, rather than before, with the implication being that the animal carcass need not rot while waiting for the game warden.

==Drug policy==
===Salvia divinorum===
Senator Tim Burchett sponsored a bill in 2006 to make illegal "<i>possessing, producing, manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to produce, manufacture, or distribute the active chemical ingredient in the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum in the state of Tennessee.</i>"<ref>[[#refBurchett2006|Burchett 2006]]</ref> Burchett stated, "<i>We have enough problems with illegal drugs as it is without people promoting getting high from some glorified weed that's been brought up from Mexico. The only people I’ve heard from who are opposed to making it illegal are those who are getting stoned on it.</i>"<ref>[[#refNashvilleBureauReporter2006|Nashville Bureau Reporter 2006]].</ref> The bill was signed into law on [[May 19]], [[2006]] and went into effect on [[July 1]], [[2006]]. Burchett originally wanted to make it a felony offence, but the bill was amended during its passage to make it a Class A misdemeanor.

Opponents of extremely prohibitive Salvia restrictions argue that such reactions are largely due to an inherent prejudice and a particular cultural bias rather than any actual balance of evidence, pointing out inconsistencies in attitudes toward other more toxic and addictive drugs such as alcohol and nicotine.<sup id="nbAlcohol" class="reference">[[#noteAlcohol|[i]]]</sup><ref>[[#refNutt2007|Nutt et al. 2007]].</ref> While not objecting to some form of regulatory legal control, in particular with regard to the sale to minors or sale of enhanced high-strength extracts, most Salvia proponents otherwise argue against stricter legislation.<sup id="nbSalvia" class="reference">[[#noteSalvia|[ii]]]</sup><ref>[[#refSiebertLegalStatus|Siebert (Legal status)]].</ref>

===Alcohol===
Senator Tim Burchett received his second largest individual political campaign donation of 2006 from the Tennessee Malt Beverage Association.<ref>[[#refMiSP2006|MiSP 2006]].</ref>

==Notes==
<ol class="references-small" style="list-style-type: lower-roman"><!-- ol tag gives following list elements roman numerals -->
<li id="noteAlcohol"
><b>[[#nbAlcohol|^]]</b> The worldwide number of alcohol related deaths is calculated at over 2,000 people per day,<ref>[[#refLopez2005|Lopez 2005]], Table 2.</ref> in the US the number is over 300 deaths per day.<ref>[[#refNIAAA2001|NIAAA 2001]].</ref></li>
<li id="noteSalvia"
><b>[[#nbSalvia|^]]</b> Those advocating consideration of Salvia divinorum's potential for beneficial use in a modern context argue that more could be learned from Mazatec culture, where Salvia is not really associated with notions of drug taking at all and it is rather considered as a spiritual sacrament. In light of this it is argued that Salvia divinorum could be better understood more positively as an [[entheogen]] rather than pejoratively as a hallucinogen.<ref>[[#refBlosserLessons|Blosser (Mazatec Lessons)]].</ref></li>
</ol>

==Citations==
{{reflist|3}}
==References==
<div class="references-small">
*<cite id=refBlosserLessons>{{cite web
| last = Blosser
| first = Brett
| title = Lessons in The Use of Mazatec Psychoactive Plants
| publisher = The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
| url = http://www.sagewisdom.org/lessons.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-19
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refBurchett2006>{{cite web
| author = Burchett, Tim
| year = 2006
| month = May
| title = Senate Bill No. 3247
| work = Public Acts 2006, Chapter 700
| url = http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0700.pdf
| format = pdf
| publisher = General Assembly of the State on Tennessee
| accessdate = 2008-01-10
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refLopez2005>{{cite journal
| author = Lopez, Alan D
| year = 2005
| month = Apr
| title = The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action
| url = http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/5
| journal = Globalization and Health
| volume = 1
| issue = 5
|publisher = BioMed Central Ltd
| doi = 10.1186/1744-8603-1-5
| pmid = 15847690
}} - [http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/5/table/T2 Table 2]. Global burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors, 1990.</cite>
*<cite id=refMiSP2006>{{cite web
|author = MiSP
| year = 2006
| title = Follow the Money
| url = http://www.followthemoney.org/Institute/index.phtml
| work = database search
| publisher = The National Institute on Money in State Politics
| accessdate=2007-10-16
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refNashvilleBureauReporter2006>{{cite journal
| author = Nashville Bureau Reporter
| year = 2006
| month = Apr
| title = The Senate passed (290-0) SB 3247
| volume = 8
| issue = 32
|publisher = Nashville Bureau
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refNIAAA2001>{{cite web
| author = NIAAA
| year = 2001
| month = Aug
| title = Number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 population for categories of alcohol-related (A-R) mortality, United States and States, 1979-96.
| work = Database Resources / Statistical Tables
| publisher = National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
| url = http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/QuickFacts/Other/armort01.htm
| accessdate=2007-10-20
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refNutt2007>{{Citation
| last1=Nutt
| first1=David
| first2=Leslie
| last2=King
| first3=William
| last3=Saulsbury
| first4=Colin
| last4=Blakemore
| year=2007
| date=Mar 2007
| title=Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse
|journal=The Lancet
| volume=369
| issue=9566
| pages=1047-1053
|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607604644/abstract
|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4
|accessdate=2007-03-23
}}</cite>
*<cite id=refSiebertLegalStatus>{{cite web
|last=Siebert
|first=Daniel
|title=The Legal Status of Salvia divinorum
|publisher=The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
|url=http://www.sagewisdom.org/legalstatus.html
|accessdate=2007-03-04
}}</cite>
</div>



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Tim Burchett is a Republican Tennessee state senator from Knoxville, Tennessee, representing District 7, part of Knox County. He was previously a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. In 1999, Burchett received national media attention for sponsoring a bill that simplified the eating of road kill, or animals killed by vehicles [1], which has often been mischaracterized as legalizing the eating of roadkill. In fact, eating roadkill is legal in most states, but Burchett's bill allows those eating roadkill to notify the county game warden after the fact, rather than before, with the implication being that the animal carcass need not rot while waiting for the game warden.

Drug policy

Salvia divinorum

Senator Tim Burchett sponsored a bill in 2006 to make illegal "possessing, producing, manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to produce, manufacture, or distribute the active chemical ingredient in the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum in the state of Tennessee."[1] Burchett stated, "We have enough problems with illegal drugs as it is without people promoting getting high from some glorified weed that's been brought up from Mexico. The only people I’ve heard from who are opposed to making it illegal are those who are getting stoned on it."[2] The bill was signed into law on May 19, 2006 and went into effect on July 1, 2006. Burchett originally wanted to make it a felony offence, but the bill was amended during its passage to make it a Class A misdemeanor.

Opponents of extremely prohibitive Salvia restrictions argue that such reactions are largely due to an inherent prejudice and a particular cultural bias rather than any actual balance of evidence, pointing out inconsistencies in attitudes toward other more toxic and addictive drugs such as alcohol and nicotine.[i][3] While not objecting to some form of regulatory legal control, in particular with regard to the sale to minors or sale of enhanced high-strength extracts, most Salvia proponents otherwise argue against stricter legislation.[ii][4]

Alcohol

Senator Tim Burchett received his second largest individual political campaign donation of 2006 from the Tennessee Malt Beverage Association.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ The worldwide number of alcohol related deaths is calculated at over 2,000 people per day,[6] in the US the number is over 300 deaths per day.[7]
  2. ^ Those advocating consideration of Salvia divinorum's potential for beneficial use in a modern context argue that more could be learned from Mazatec culture, where Salvia is not really associated with notions of drug taking at all and it is rather considered as a spiritual sacrament. In light of this it is argued that Salvia divinorum could be better understood more positively as an entheogen rather than pejoratively as a hallucinogen.[8]

Citations

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References


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  1. ↑ Burchett 2006
  2. ↑ Nashville Bureau Reporter 2006.
  3. ↑ Nutt et al. 2007.
  4. ↑ Siebert (Legal status).
  5. ↑ MiSP 2006.
  6. ↑ Lopez 2005, Table 2.
  7. ↑ NIAAA 2001.
  8. ↑ Blosser (Mazatec Lessons).
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