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Let Patients Use Marijuana 
Posted by FoM on November 24, 1999 at 18:50:34 PT
By John Sajo, Director, Voter Power 
Source: Oregon Live
Your Nov. 7 article, "Court bars medical-necessity defense," highlights the federal government's ridiculous position on medical marijuana. The only way the government can convict Todd McCormick and Peter McWilliams of marijuana charges is to deny them any ability to discuss their medical use. 
Both men benefit from their marijuana use and have the support of their physicians. How can U.S. District Judge George King prohibit the defendants from referring to Proposition 215 or any mention of the medical use of marijuana? I guess the same way that Congress refused to allow the counting of a Washington, D.C., medical marijuana initiative that 69 percent of voters supported. Or the same way that the Clinton administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration ignore the fact that voters in all seven states that have considered marijuana as medicine have approved it. Let the patients have their medicine. It's time to admit that making patients suffer is not a justifiable strategy to win the drug war. JOHN SAJO Director: Voter Power Milwaukie Related Articles:AIDS Victim Hammered By Pot Charge - 11/20/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3742.shtmlActivists Plead Guilty to Drug Charges - 11/20/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3734.shtmlMedical Marijuana Activists Plead Guilty - 11/19/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3733.shtmlLA Drug Case Bars Medical Marijuana Defense - 11/07/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3585.shtml 
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on November 25, 1999 at 21:51:47 PT:
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Marijuana GrowersLA Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/By Nik GreenCopyright 1999 Los Angeles TimesPublished: Novenber 25, 1999    Re "Activists Plead Guilty to Drug Charges," Nov. 20:   By denying all effective avenues of defense to marijuana activists Todd McCormick and Peter McWilliams, U.S District Court Judge George H. King makes a public mockery of the justice system and its widely perceived view of fairness. Judge King may as well take this process to its preordained conclusion by saving the public expense of what will doubtless be a kangaroo trial and ordering the two defendants immediately arrested and jailed by default. One has to ponder which factors are at work to result in a judge making the (extraordinary) decision of essentially rendering his own courtroom redundant. NIK GREEN Isla Vista 
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