High on Politics By Tom Hinkle
Temple News November 08, 2005*Philadephia, PA
Ralph Nader, the third party contender for President in the 2000 election, who is well known for his support of legalizing marijuana for personal use, spoke to Temple students and media last Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Student Center Annex. "I support decriminalization of marijuana, but regulated," Nader said. This would provide for a regulated distribution of the substance similar to that of alcohol, Nader said. Of the plant's commercial uses Nader said, "Industrial hemp has nothing to do with marijuana uses, it's a great thing."
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Robert Randall
The patient who made legal history
when he persuaded a Washington, DC federal court
that his use of marijuana was a matter of medical necessity.
Father of the Medical Marijuana Movement.
1948-2001
An Open Letter about Medical Marijuana
Comments from Elvy Musikka, glaucoma patient and one of only eight people in the U.S. allowed to receive marijuana legally as medicine from the federal government. December 14, 1997 Hollywood, Florida
Welcome to George McMahon's Home Page
Welcome to my home page. I am the 5th legal medical marijuana recipient in the United States. Since March of 1990, I have been receiving a monthly prescription for medical marijuana from the federal government. At the current time, there are only eight of us left.
A Quarter Ounce a Day BY ANDREW SLATON
Texas man lives by -- and fights for -- medical marijuana
Patients Out of Time
Cannabis as Medicine
Fish Pond Plantation, 1472 Fish Pond Road,
Howardsville, VA 24562
TEL (804) 263-4484** FAX (804) 263-6753
email: Patients@MedicalCann abis.com
The Missoula Study
The advent of AIDS created a whole new group of applicants, but for unannounced reasons the Public Health Service of the first Bush administration closed the program to new patients in 1992. "A significant number," report the authors, "had received medical approval but were never supplied."
The Missoula Study by MICHAEL KING June 20, 2003
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Drug Enforcement Administration
In The Matter Of
MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
Docket No. 86-22
OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION OF
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
DATED: SEPTEMBER 6, 1988
The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record.
The administrative law judge recommends that the Administrator conclude that the marijuana plant considered as a whole has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, that there is no lack of accepted safety for use of it under medical supervision and that it may lawfully be transferred from Schedule I to Schedule II. The judge recommends that the Administrator transfer marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II.
Francis L. Young
Dated: SEP 6 1988
Virtues' of Ganja
Legitimizing Ganja
The Ganjawar Fraud
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.
Think of the message being sent to the kids?
Thank you Miss Rosa
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution
inhibit the government's ability to govern the people,
we should look to limit those guarantees.
President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
US: Column: A Foul Tragedy by Garrison Keillor
In These Times 01 Nov 2005 (US)
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Democrats Fled In The Face Of Danger
We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the "war" on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.
The cruelty of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is stark indeed, as are the sentencing guidelines that impose mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug possession-guidelines in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that sailed through Congress without benefit of public hearings, drafted before an election by Democrats afraid to be labeled "soft on drugs." As a result, a marijuana grower can land in prison for life without parole while a murderer might be in for eight years.
No rational person can defend this; it is a Dostoevskian nightmare and it exists only because politicians fled in the face of danger.
That includes Bill Clinton, under whose administration the prosecution of Americans for marijuana went up hugely, so that now there are more folks in prison for marijuana than for violent crimes. More than for manslaughter or rape. This only makes sense in the fantasy world of Washington, where perception counts for more than reality.
To an old Democrat, who takes a ground view of politics-What is the actual effect of this action on the lives of real people?-it is a foul tragedy that makes you feel guilty about enjoying your freedom.
If suddenly on a Friday night the red lights flash and the cops yank your teenage son and his little envelope of marijuana into the legal meatgrinder and some bullet-headed prosecutor decides to flex his muscle and charge your teenager-because he had a .22 rifle in his upstairs bedroom closet-with a felony involving the use of a firearm, which under our brutal sentencing code means he can be put on ice for 20 years, and the prosecutor goes at him hammer and tong and convinces a passive jury and your boy's life is sacrificed so this creep can run for Congress next year-this is not your cross alone to bear.
If the state cuts off your right hand with a meat cleaver on my account and I don't object, then it is my cleaver and my fingerprints on it. I don't dare visit Sandstone Federal Prison here in Minnesota for fear of what I'd see there: People who chose marijuana, a more benign drug than alcohol, and got caught in the religious war that we Democrats in a weak moment signed onto. God help us if we form alliance with such bullies as would destroy a kid's life for raising cannabis plants.
Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 26th year on the air. This adapted excerpted from Keillor's new book, Homegrown Democrat is reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc.
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
Prison Profit and Slave Labor
Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations
The Real Price of Prisons
The Drug War Refugees
DEA Success Update: Let's see. After 20 years of relentless federal Drug War activity, while the price of world-class marijuana has gone from $60 an ounce to $450, the price of quality cocaine has plummeted from $125 a gram to $30, and 30%-pure heroin has dropped from $700 a gram to about $100. Way to go, boys!
High Times, April 1995
The author of BUSTED! Drug War Survival Skills from the Bust to Begging for Mercy Chris Fabricant sits down with CC correspondent Paul DeRienzo and talks about his new book.
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