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Muzzled MMJ Activist a Causality of Drug War!
Posted by FoM on July 01, 1999 at 11:07:09 PT
Source: Our Times Santa Monica
It is with bemusement that we watch from faraway Florida at the decision rendered by Judge Albert Matthews with regards to Joe Kidwell ("Judge: Activist can't promote pot," June 20).
It had been suggested to me that California was ahead of the curve with regards to supporting responsible adult use of cannabis for medicinal use and responsible adult use of all kinds.   That Matthews ordered to Kidwell not to speak on a certain subject matter forever, or face prison time is an amazing ignorance of the Constitution.   This is much like case of Bob Barr of Georgia who last week suggested that those who promote drug law reform in our country be charged as organized criminals.   Silliness still pervades coast to coast, it seems.   STEVE HEATH   Largo, Fla.   It has been said with regard to cancer that there is no profit in a cure. The same principle applies here: There is no profit in an end to the drug war. The alternative to prohibition -- legalization -- will not produce the profits that the drug war does for its proponents.   The drug war and its proponents do not and have never listed victory as an objective.   Leaders' boasts of "Drug free by the year 2005" or "2007" etc. are laughable. The same was boasted by past presidents and politicians about 1980, 1985 and 1990 etc. ad nauseum. The true (and hidden) objective is that it is imperative that the drug war never be won. In that way it perpetuates itself and all the revenue it produces.   Maybe the politicians are required to adhere to the party line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison industrial complex, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the politicians themselves et al can't live without the budget justification, not to mention the invisible profits, bribery, corruption and forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them.   The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.   Prohibition can never succeed. Our law enforcement institutions and economies are now addicted -- financially -- to the war on drugs. Wake up world -- this is a fiscal addiction.   MYRON VON HOLLINGSWORTH   Fort Worth, Texas    The recent court order by Judge Albert Matthews to bar Joe "Hemp" Kidwell his First Amendment rights is typical of the totalitarian and illegal nature of marijuana prohibition. Those like Matthews show the inhumanity of our current legal imbroglio with regard to drugs, legal and illicit. How can a judge ban someone from talking about medicine? Who puts people like Matthews in charge? MARCY STEPHANS Santa Monica Feedback to SMOurTimes earthlink.net Pubdate : July 1,1999 http://www.latimes.com/excite/990701/tCB0049695.html
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 02, 1999 at 07:09:03 PT:
Judge Matthew's Reefer Madness Ruling! 6-24-99
Source: LA Times http://www.latimes.com/ Let me see if I got this right. Joe "Hemp" Kidwell was convicted for illegally cultivating 14 marijuana plants. At the same time Judge Albert Matthews recognized Kidwell's Proposition 215 rights by ordering him to only use his legal medical marijuana at home. Matthews has me confused because patients entitled to use medical marijuana at home or anywhere else are also legally entitled to grow cannabis under the terms of Proposition 215.Click the link below to read more!
Judge Matthew's Reefer Madness Ruling! 6-24-99
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