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Video of CA MMJ Refugee Renee Boje Seeking Asylum!
Posted by FoM on July 14, 1999 at 21:18:50 PT
D. Paul Stanford
Source: CRRH
CRRH is happy to announce that a new video, Medical Marijuana vs. Democracy, about California medical marijuana refugee, Renee Boje, is now available on the web. The 15 minute web video stream automatically maximizes the viewers' signal, depending upon their bandwidth, for 28K, 57K and 112K connections from:
http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/docs_mmjvd.htmlRenee Boje is a medical marijuana activist who was arrested with Todd McCormick and Peter McWilliams in Los Angeles, California, USA, in July 1997. Renee was initially released with no charges and fled to Canada. She has subsequently been charged with conspiracy to cultivate cannabis by the US federal government and faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison. The US federal government is seeking Renee Boje's extradition from Canada back to the US. She is seeking political asylum in British Columbia, Canada. It is generally agreed that Boje is being persecuted to force her to testify against Todd McCormick. McCormick, a cancer victim, cultivated several thousand cannabis plants to breed different varieties for medical use and was bailed out of the Los Angeles County Jail by actor Woody Harelson. Harelson posted $500,000 bail for McCormick. Peter McWilliams, a best-selling author, publisher and medical marijuana patient, is also a defendant in Renee Boje's case. Boje's refugee claim is made based upon the US federal government's effort to nullify California's Prop 215 on medical cannabis, the US criminal justice systems barbaric penalties for growing cannabis and the inhumane treatment of women in prisons in the US. 'Medical Marijuana vs. Democracy' features Renee Boje, Dennis Peron, Chris Clay, Boje's attorney, John Conroy and cancer patient, Betty Anne Doucette. It chronicles the passage of California's Prop 215 in Nov. 1996 until Renee's June 10, 1999 application for refugee status from the US Drug War to the Canadian government in BC. The program begins with a harvest of Canadian medical marijuana and features election 1996 footage in the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club. The show was produced by Corky Productions of Vancouver, BC. Boje is seeking financial assistance to help defray her legal bill in fighting extradition. Please help her:http://www.thecompassionclub.org/renee/Yours truly,D. Paul Stanford Date: 1999/07/14 To subscribe, unsubscribe or switch to immediate or digest mode, please send your instructions to: restore-owner crrh.org*Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp*CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/
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