cannabisnews.com: Medical Marijuana Decision a Death Sentence Medical Marijuana Decision a Death Sentence Posted by FoM on August 29, 2000 at 20:00:14 PT Juan Ros of the Libertarian Party of Calif. Source: U.S. Newswire A Supreme Court order handed down today barring the distribution of medical marijuana to sick and suffering patients in California is tantamount to a death sentence for those patients, the Libertarian Party of California charged today. According to the Associated Press, the court voted 7-1 to grant an emergency Clinton administration request and postpone the effect of a prior federal court ruling that permitted the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative (OCBC) to distribute medical marijuana to patients. "How many more have to die before the government opens its eyes to the suffering it is needlessly causing?" asked Libertarian state executive director Juan Ros. "The Supreme Court has demonstrated a lack of compassion, a lack of understanding, and a lack of knowledge of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution." On July 17, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer -- brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer -- reversed his own 1998 injunction and ruled that the OCBC could distribute medical marijuana to patients under Proposition 215, the landmark ballot initiative approved by voters in 1996. The U.S. Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of Breyer's ruling. Justice John Paul Stevens was the lone dissenter on the Court. Justice Breyer disqualified himself from the case. The result of the Supreme Court's decision is to indefinitely bar the OCBC and other medical marijuana distribution centers from providing life-saving medicine to sick patients. "The War on Drugs continues to escalate and has evolved into a War on the Sick, a War on the Dying, and a War on the Constitution," Ros added. The Supreme Court decision comes as the medical marijuana trial of 1998 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby and his wife Michele opens in Auburn. The Kubbys were arrested in January 1999, following a raid of their Olympic Valley home. Both Kubbys face state marijuana charges despite being patients protected under Proposition 215. "The death of Peter McWilliams was not enough. The continued persecution of Steve and Michele Kubby is not enough. Despite the odds, Libertarians will continue to fight for the rights of patients until this insane War on Drugs is finally laid to rest," Ros concluded. Contact: Juan Ros of the Libertarian Party of California818-782-8400; E-mail: director ca.lp.orgWeb Site: http://www.ca.lp.org Panorama City, Calif.Published: August 29, 2000Copyright 2000, U.S. Newswire Related Articles & Web Sites:Oakland Cannabis Buyer's Cooperativehttp://www.rxcbc.org/The Kubby Fileshttp://www.kubby.org/Peter McWilliams Memorial Pagehttp://homepages.go.com/~marthag1/Peterm.htm Supreme Court Bars Distribution of Med. Marijuana http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6868.shtmlKubby Trial Begins http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6864.shtmlCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives:http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #7 posted by Frank on August 30, 2000 at 16:50:58 PT "Everything became forbidden", Ann Frank 1942 It’s time to stand up against the jackboot crowd – The Federal Government. I guess it has to be like the 1960’s when the people put their boot in the government’s *ss. I have gotten to the point that I no longer believe that we are free as Americans. If you let this go on andon it’s only going to get worse. These leaders are enemies of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The Supreme Court is about Justice? – “Just-Us” and no one else. How strange it is that the American Government is so worried about Freedom in other countries when our freedoms are evaporating here. There is Freedom and Justice for all? America is a pathetic shadow of what it once was. To quote Ann Frank, "Everything became forbidden."The American Govenment, The new Nazis. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on August 30, 2000 at 09:58:02 PT Hi Everyone! Hi Everyone! I want you all to know that I am going conservatively with the news today! There's alot of news but I haven't found any that should bump off some of the high comment articles. If you think I am missing an article that should be posted please let me know. When I opened my email there were around 80 news article. I know that this forum is all of yours and mine too so do let me know if you want me to try something different. Thanks FoM! My Main Index Page [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on August 30, 2000 at 09:15:09 PT: Death Sentence? Hell yes, it is!!! 4D, the antis are trying to do to an entire class of people what they did to Peter McWilliams and got away with; namely, murder them by judicial decree. They've become emboldened in their success in silencing one of their most articulate critics. Now they are out to get *all* of the sick and dying who use cannabis. And take down all those whose compassion causes them to seek to ameliorate their conditions with cannabis.The antis think they have done it. They think a Supreme Court 'emergency order' (query: is this the same thing as an Executive Order?) will stop the MMJ movement. They think they can now override the will of the electorate of any State in the Union with a simple snap of the fingers. They think the sick and the dying will passively wander away, out of sight of the rest of us, and obligingly die without a moue. Just because some flaming a**hole wearing a black robe says so.I think not.This day may well be remembered in future histories as the day when, as a poet once put it, 'the sheep look up'. The day when the crimes this government has quietly engaged in against its' own people, heretofore covered because they happened to a minority, are finally exposed for what they are. This may be the long-awaited last straw of government tyranny, where those who have not yet felt the jackboot on their necks may realize that they are indeed the next target. Or as pastor of a church in Germany during the Third Reich:First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no oneleft to help me. -- Pastor Father Niemoller (1946) [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on August 30, 2000 at 04:35:42 PT: Big, big, mistake. The Feds think they've stopped us.They think they've done an end-run around us. They think that it's over.It isn't. Because, they've just made the biggest mistake of their lives. The antis have placed the whole issue on the legal radar screen... of the entire country. Where the antis have tried to *keep* it off for years.By moving it so quickly into the arena of the Supremes, the antis have commited a major tactical error. Because now the issue has to be *settled* there.Now is the time for all those lawyers who've been working on the origins of the cannabis laws of this country to come forth with their research and file a brief with the Court to present this evidence. Evidence which refutes chapter, line and verse the bilge the antis have been spewing all these years.Not being a lawyer, I can only guess at the convolutions involved in doing so. But if the Supremes can rule on cannabis at *all*, they must be required to know *what* they are ruling about. To refuse to view all the evidence available would not be a smart move for supposedly smart people. To refuse to see the latest scientific evidence (anandamide receptors, the Abrams report showing smoking cannabis caused no harm to people with compromised immune systems, etc.) is to invalidate their own purpose. To refuse to review the historical evidence that racial bigotry was the rationale behind the cannabis laws would stick in the craw of any jurist worthy of the name. And call their ostensible impartiality into question. Which is career death for any judge. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by dddd on August 30, 2000 at 01:19:21 PT death sentence? I dont consider this to be that big of a deal,or surpizing. I think perhaps the death sentence has already been passed on the feds anti-drug syndicate racket,,and this senseless,desperate attempt to further ignore the will of the people is going to make them look all the more insane. Notice how we have still not heard the name(s),of exactly who is actually behind all this,other than "the Clinton administration"??......dddd [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by nl5x on August 29, 2000 at 20:23:47 PT harry brown 4 president http://www.harrybrowne.org [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by m.o.g. on August 29, 2000 at 20:17:39 PT this is bullshit... this is truly a sad day in American history...that's all i can bare to say...keep fighting all, don't let this minor set back keep us from our goal, freedom...we can win this war... [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: