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Medical Pot Activists Plan Week of Events
Posted by CN Staff on February 13, 2003 at 09:38:04 PT
By Staff Writer
Source: Oakland Tribune 
Bay Area activists are planning events throughout the next week to raise awareness and support for medicinal use of marijuana. The week begins with a picnic and planting event at noon Saturday outside the Conservatory in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Organizers will place the first of 215,000 marijuana seedlings they hope to plant in honor of Proposition 215, a 1996 state ballot measure that legalized the use of medical marijuana. 
Participants are encouraged to wear gardening clothes and bring shovels and rakes. At 4 p.m. Saturday, activists will erect a marijuana leaf banner atop San Francisco's Twin Peaks. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Compassion and Care Center will host a party and short film presentation at 122 10th St., San Francisco. Protesters will gather at noon Tuesday outside federal buildings in San Francisco and Oakland to "evict" the Drug Enforcement Administration from its offices. At noon Thursday, activists will dress up as U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and rally outside the senator's office at Montgomery and Market streets in San Francisco. Participants are encouraged to wear red. From 4 p.m. until dark next Friday, activists will meet on the steps of San Francisco City Hall before positioning themselves along Van Ness Avenue with "Burma Shave-style" signs spelling out a pro-medical marijuana message. From 7 to 10 p.m. that night, the Hemp Center at 4811 Geary St. will host an open house with music and food. Note: Picnic set for Golden Gate Park; also protests at federal buildings.For more information, call Americans for Safe Access at (510) 486-8083 or go to: http://www.safeaccessnow.org Source: Oakland Tribune (CA)Published: Thursday, February 13, 2003Copyright: 2003 MediaNews Group, Inc. Contact: triblet angnewspapers.com Website: http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Related Article & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Awareness Weekhttp://freedomtoexhale.com/aware.htmProcedure Stalls Medical Marijuana Week Votehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15386.shtml
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on February 13, 2003 at 13:59:49 PT
News Brief from The Oakland Tribune
February 13, 2003http://www.msnbc.com/news/DATELINE_front.asp?cp1=1East Bay cannabis fight goes prime time: Network television news show Dateline NBC was in town this week preparing a piece on Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, who was recently convicted of federal cannabis cultivation charges even though he was under the protection of state and city laws protecting medicinal marijuana use. Among those reportedly interviewed: Oakland City Council President Ignacio de la Fuente, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and several jurors who apologized to Rosenthal after the trial, saying they felt they'd been duped by the federal government. http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1177368,00.html
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Comment #4 posted by p4me on February 13, 2003 at 12:03:28 PT
The first link needs the hyphen removed
The sedcond link will work in Comment3 but the first has the hyphen at the end screwing it up.My greatest truth is The hardest thing to say in life is "I am wrong." Just tell someone they are wrong about something and see how angry they get. If people actually were told things like the article in comment2, they would change their views because they would not want to be wrong in their perception of reality. That is why the media must be controlled- people would see things completely different with true information. People want to be right as a primary drive and if we can get the information to them, things will change.
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Comment #3 posted by p4me on February 13, 2003 at 11:23:52 PT
The big picture
I once talked about a black named Lewis that was an alcoholic and liked cocaine and cannabis. Lewis killed a man in a car accident when he was drunk. I knew Lewis when he was 50 and I was about 31. He had no education but I remember two things he said that are guidepost to the way I see things. He first said "The older you get the more precious life becomes" and secondly he said "I am too old for a bunch of shit."there used to be an E-Johnson that commented here and I remember her for saying that she would rather have a bunch of crazy religious zealots make a fool of themselves, refering to the Republicans, than someone that was going to do the same thing and appear like it is a rational thought toward medical cannabis, refering to Al Gore. I don't remember her words exactly, but I remember the thought.Now Kaptinemo still is around and I will give him credit for saying that reform for cannabis will come as support for the broader problems of government are addressed. The big problem of government of course is the control of government by the wealthy few and for the wealthy few and by their parrots. American fascism,if you will, is the big problem and that is why we have cannabis prohibition and a controlled press and kangaroo courts and a populace that does not know what is going on and is brainwashed and for the most part never heasrd of jury nullification.Now the fascist have lied about even having what is being called a Patriot Act 2. If the press did its job people would be outraged at the ill-named Patriot Act and would be callinf for the impeachment of Busch. I site this link- http://www.infowars.com/print_patriotact2_analysis.htm- with the title TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER
The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty as something that shows how outrageous things have become.Here is the first paragraph-Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act’s powers by saying that President Bush was “seizing dictatorial control.Can you imagine something so sweeping not being read by one member of Congress? Further down in the article it addresses the issue again and says-2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.Just look at how the first Patriot Act that the conglomerate media ignores trampled on the Constitution. And now they are sneaking around trying to pass some more unconstitutional legislation waiting to act like we have a legitimate government. Busch and Cheney are traitors and should be impeached. Congress is a collection of green Parrots eed to be removed from office withthe possible exception of Ron Paul.Cannabis reform will come only when the fascists have been exposed and their agents humiliated and removed from power. This is the most important article a person could read today. It is truly shocking to think of the underhanded tactics involved by the Great Dickhead and his corporate sponsors.Please read this article and see we have a much bigger problem to solve before the iron fist crushes all our freedoms instead of just the right to grow our favorite plant. Just read the title one more time- TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER: The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty- http://www.infowars.com/print_patriotact2_analysis.htm
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Comment #2 posted by BigDawg on February 13, 2003 at 10:50:51 PT
I thought the same,
but I guess that is what they want. Civil disobedience at its best.
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Comment #1 posted by pokesmotter on February 13, 2003 at 10:45:36 PT:
question?
in the article it says, "...Saturday outside the Conservatory in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Organizers will place the first of 215,000 marijuana seedlings they hope to plant..."How is this going to be looked upon? A bunch of people planting weed in the park? It sounds like a great idea but it might attract some federal attention.
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