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Suing California State for Enforcement!
Posted by FoM on July 18, 1999 at 09:02:54 PT
Pete Brady, Sneak Peek from Cannabis Culture #18 
Source: Cannabis Culture Magazine
Oakland-based activist attorney Bill Simpich is suing California Attorney-General Bill Lockyer for not implementing medical pot Proposition 215, passed by referendum in 1996. Simpich is angry that patients and caregivers are still being harassed and arrested for growing medicinal marijuana.
Lockyer and his predecessor Dan Lungren have violated their oaths of office by their handling of 215, Simpich says. As elected constitutional officers, they have the responsibility to ensure that the will of the people is implemented.Lungren actively worked with the feds to destroy 215, and Lockyer ran an election campaign last year saying that he was totally different from Lungren and would do whatever it took to make the law work. He hasn't, and I'm filing a lawsuit that demands that he and other government officials and agencies do their job and see that this law is put into effect immediately.Proposition 215 activists are fighting back outside the courtroom as well. The Libertarian Party, Steve Kubby and other medical pot advocates have set up a website: http://www.215now.com/ , that allows people to easily send direct pro-215 emails to highly-ranked federal officials. Anybody with an email address, no matter their locale, is encouraged to log on and send some truth.The Hotpot is part of Cannabis Culture's resource archive. If you have a submission for The Hotpot, send it to brazyl cannabisculture.com . CANNABIS CULTURE MAGAZINEhttp://www.cannabisculture.com/PO Box 15, 199 West Hastings, Vancouver BC,Canada V6B 1H4
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Comment #1 posted by jdd on July 18, 1999 at 20:50:04 PT
Suing California...
Hurray!!! This is just what is needed to force compliance by our officials. They want to give us a "task force" that does nothing but water down the law and add more bureaucracy. Long live 215!!!
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