ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO BUTTON HOLE THE FOLLOWING SENATORS AND
CONGRESSFOLKS & ASK ABOUT BARNEY FRANK'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATES
RIGHTS BILL!
From: Andrew Seidenfeld <noprob@...>
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Status:
Here is a list of "too close to call" races, and the names
and websites of
democrats who might could be influenced to declare support for medical
mj.
(1) HOT SENATE RACES
Arkansas: Mark Pryor
http://www.pryor2002.com/vol.htm
Colorado: Tom Strickland
http://www.stricklandforcolorado.com/pageinpage/getinvolved.cfm
Georgia: Max Cleland
http://www.maxcleland2002.com/involved/volunteer/volunteer.html
Iowa: Tom Harkin
http://www.tomharkin.com/get-involved/volunteer-form.cfm
Louisiana: Mary Landrieu
http://www.marylandrieu.com/get_involved.html
Maine: Chellie Pingree
http://www.pingreeforsenate.com/involved/involved.cfm
Minnesota: Seat formerly held by Paul Wellstone
This campaign will not recommence until Wednesday, but it
is still
likely to be a very tight race between Wellstone's
successor and
Norm Coleman. Stay tuned for more details about how
to help.
Missouri: Jean Carnahan
http://www.jeancarnahan.com/get_involved/
New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen
http://www.shaheen.org
New Jersey: Frank Lautenberg
Email: vherold@... to volunteer for
Lautenberg and other NJ Dems.
Please include your phone # and your county, and say
"MoveOn sent me."
North Carolina: Erskine Bowles
http://www.erskinebowles2002.com/get_involved/index.htm
Oklahoma: David Walters
http://www.waltersforsenate.com/volunteer.asp
Oregon: Bill Bradbury
http://www.bradbury2002.com/cgi-bin/volunteer.htm
South Dakota: Tim Johnson
http://www.timjohnsonforsd.com/getinvolved/volunteer.php
South Carolina: Alex Sanders
http://www.sanders2002.com/help/index.asp
Texas: Ron Kirk
http://www.ronkirk.com/volunteer.asp
(2) HOT HOUSE RACES
Alabama 3rd District (Auburn area): Joe Turnham
email: joeturnham@... Please be sure to
include
your contact info and tell them MoveOn sent you.
Colorado 7th District (Jefferson County: Denver suburb): Mike
Feeley
http://www.feeley2002.com/involve.asp
California 18th District (Modesto / Central Valley): Dennis
Cardoza
http://www.denniscardoza.com/support/volunteers.asp
Connecticut 2nd District (Groton area): Joe Courtney
email: Francis@... Please be
sure to include
your contact info and tell them MoveOn sent you.
Connecticut 5th District (Waterbury, Danbury): Jim Maloney
https://www.clubcyrus.com/maloney2002/volunteer.html
Georgia 3rd District (Macon) Jim Marshall
http://www.jimmarshall2002.org/volunteer.html
Georgia, 12th District (Augusta, Athens) Charles Walker, Jr.
http://www.charleswalkerforcongress.com/volunteer.htm
Indiana 2nd District (South Bend area): Jill Long Thompson
http://www.jilllongthompson.com/volunteer.php
Indiana 7th District (Indianapolis): Julia Carson
http://www.juliacarson.com/volunteer.cfm
Iowa 1st District (quad cities / Bettendorf area): Ann Hutchinson
http://www.annhutchinson.com/front/index.php?page=volunteer
Iowa 2nd District (Cedar Rapids, Iowa City): Julie Thomas
http://www.thomasforcongress.com/scripts/getinvolved.asp
Iowa 4th District (Ames): John Norris
http://www.norrisforcongress.com/volunteer.html
Kentucky 3rd District (Louisville): Jack Conway
http://conwayforcongress.com/volunteer/
Maine 2nd District (all but southern coast): Mike Michaud
http://lc.webs.innerhost.com/michaud/volunteer.asp
Maryland 2nd District (Baltimore suburbs): Dutch Ruppersberger
http://www.dutchforcongress.com/volunteer.html
Maryland 8th District (Montgomery County): Chris Van Hollen
http://democrats.com/elandslide/volunteer.cfm?campaign=vanhollen
Michigan 11th District (Detroit suburbs) Kevin Kelly
http://kevinkelleyforcongress.com
Minnesota 2nd District (Minneapolis - St. Paul suburbs): Bill
Luther
http://www.voteluther.com/get_involved/VolunteerForm.shtml
Nevada 3rd District (Las Vegas): Dario Herrera
http://www.darioherreraforcongress.com/getinvolved.asp
New Hampshire 1st District (Manchester area): Martha Fuller
Clark
http://www.clarkforcongress.com
New Jersey 5th District (Bergen County) Anne Sumers
http://www.sumers2002.com
New Jersey 12th District (central New Jersey): Rush Holt
http://www.rushholt.com/volunteer.htm
New Mexico 1st District (Albuquerque area): Richard Romero
http://www.richardromeroforcongress.com/english/jointheteam/
New York 1st District (eastern Long Island): Tim Bishop
http://www.bishopforcongress2002.com/volunteer.htm
North Carolina 13th District (Raleigh area): Brad Miller
http://www.bradmiller.org/volunteer.html
Ohio 17th District (Youngstown): Tim Ryan
http://timryanforcongress.com/volunteer.asp
Pennsylvania 6th District (western Philaelphia suburbs): Dan
Wofford
http://www.woffordforcongress.org/volunteer.html
Pennsylvania 15th District (Allentown, Bethlehem): Ed O'Brien
http://www.obrienforcongress.com/obrien/volunteer.asp
Pennsylvania 17th District (Harrisburg area): Tim Holden
email: holdencampaign@... Please be sure to
include
your contact info and tell them MoveOn sent you.
South Dakota (statewide): Stephanie Herseth
http://www.hersethforcongress.org/volunteer.htm
Tennessee 4th District (Jamestown) Lincoln Davis
http://www.lincolndavis.com/volunteer.htm
Texas 25th District (Houston): Chris Bell
http://www.chrisbellforcongress.com/involved/volunteer.html
Utah 1st District (Salt Lake City, Ogden): Dave Thomas
http://www.electdavethomas.com/
Utah 2nd District (Salt Lake City) Jim Matheson
http://www.matheson2000.com/form_volunteer.htm
Washington 1st District: Jay Inslee
http://www.inslee4congress.com/volunteer.html
Washington 2nd District (Everett area): Rick Larsen
http://www.ricklarsen.org/index.asp
Wisconsin 2nd District (Madison): Tammy Baldwin
http://www.tammybaldwin.com
*****!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,
Reports!!!******
Good Dad jailed under
Clark's family values policy
Thursday, 31 October 2002, 3:49
pm
Press Release: Mild
Greens
Good Dad jailed under Helen Clark's family values policy
The Mild Greens are disgusted that a Christchurch District Court
Judge has sentenced a solo father to eight months jail for possession
of several ounces of low grade cannabis, presumed to be for
supply.
Although described in his probation report as "not a bad
man, and well thought of in his job as a butcher", Stephen
William Leach is being jailed because, according to crown prosecutor
Stuart Poore, deterrence is the over-riding principle in the case and
a custodial sentence is needed.
Under "family values" criminalisation policy, bullying
discrimination continues in the NZ community against people who would
no longer be criminals if Parliament would only finish its 2yr
3mth(.....) cannabis law review, and account for the vast injustices
and unintended consequences of prohibition.
Harm Minimisation, purported Government National drug policy, has
still yet to acknowledge, measure and mitigate the harms and costs of
criminalisation, despite Ministry of Health concern and recommended
scrutiny (cost-benefit analysis) now dating back at least 7
years.
While law and order, drugs, youth alienation and crime etc,
masquerade as issues of concern for politicians, it is rare to find an
MP or journalist who can see the connections between criminalisation
and criminality (and between injustice and alienation). Even the Green
Party seem to strangely avoid this glaring aspect of the holistic
analysis.
New Zealanders may be appalled at perceived human rights abuses
around the world, in Palestine, Zimbabwe, China and Chechnya, but
Kiwis are largely silent about the drug user apartheid which is the
bread and butter of our own (in)justice system - and at the heart of
division and dysfunction in our community.
Courts, Prisons, Police, Lawyers, Social Services, Probation and
Judiciary etc are beneficiaries of the unwarranted criminalisation of
all illicit drug users, but cannabis users in particular. With this
arbitrarily outlawed demograph comprising 16% of the surveyed
population, an inexhaustible supply of court fodder is provided,
directly comprising some 20,000 victims per year.
But while administrators of community abuse should be held
accountable for massive fraud and grievous sociological harm, instead
they are propping up the prejudice and protecting each other's
taxpayer grift. Parliament administers the bad law - the Justice
system enforces it - while the legacy of criminalisation ensures that
bad outcomes feed the community concern/prejudice that mandates the
hypocritical status quo.
And MP's are elected again and again thanks to their "get
tough/family values" rhetoric - while truly decent community
leaders (are there any??) are intimidated into letting it happen, as
long as it's someone else's family who goes to jail - or goes off the
rails and commits some incomprehensible crime.
Prohibition has all but extinguished the flame of social justice
in NZ.
Recently the Law and Order Select Committee accused the Mild
Greens of abusing politicians because they have not linked prohibition
to NZ's law and order problems (boy racers being "those people"
in that instance). Yet Parliament continues to overlook the glaring
anomaly of "double standards" surrounding cannabis as
highlighted by the Health Select Committee Inquiry into the mental
health effects of cannabis 1998.
Let's put this in context: A parliamentary committee unanimously
finds that existing policy is "BAD". Four years on, even
with select committee member Annette King now as Minister of Health,
"BAD" policy is still the order of the day, and perhaps one
billion dollars has been directly misappropriated into "BAD"
policy during this time, presumably as a best practice health
intervention. How sick is that?
How on earth is it that Judges like Stephen Erber, and crown
prosecutors such as Stuart Poore are unaware that the Health Select
Committee in 1998/99 all but exonerated cannabis, and TWICE
recommended review of the appropriateness of existing policy, and
reconsideration of the legal status?
Why have these beneficiaries of apartheid not been restrained?
Not one public servant is prepared to blow the whistle on this
"systemic corruption" it seems.
"Fix what's broken, repeal the illegitimate cannabis
law", say the Mild Greens, echoing the sentiment of virtually all
submitters to the Health Select Committee during its cannabis hearings
up and down the country in 2001.
But, without so much as a debate, let alone a conscience vote (or
select committee report), Helen Clark's Labour party have allowed the
corrupt systemic criminalisation practices to continue.
Despite the "Christian" United Future coalition support
deal to block cannabis reform, there is nothing Christian about the
obscene reality of criminalisation policy. Jesus would turn in his
tomb if he knew that self-declared Christians were abusing their
brothers in his name - and over God's good seed bearing herb of all
things.
While granting 3 weeks leave to apply for *home detention, Judge
Stephen Erber stated to the defendant "It will do you no harm at
all to serve some term of actual jail" - however (not
withstanding the criminal duress), the Mild Greens ask what damage
will be done to the family if this man goes to jail, and what will be
the real cost to individuals and the community?
What precautions, for example, are being taken to ensure that the
defendant's son is not prejudiced by the absence of his Dad? Will he
slip into the now familiar "at risk youth" category as an
unintended consequence of the overriding principle of
deterrence?
It's sending a strong message which is important after all… If
taking a tough stance on marijuana saves just one kid then it will all
have been worth it…
Welcome to NZ, God's last bastion of truth, freedom, tolerance,
justice, robust harm minimisation policy, and wholesome, decent,
family values - and more jails.
*Source: Christchurch PRESS 26th Oct 2002
--------------------------------
Fliers get cannabis activist arrested
By JANEL STEPHENS
© St. Petersburg Times
published October 30, 2002
TAMPA -- Anthony Lorenzo stood beside a papier-mache
replica
of a 4-foot-tall marijuana joint Saturday night as costumed
Guavaween festivalgoers passed by.
Dressed in a black T-shirt with white letters reading
"DEA,"
Lorenzo stood with a group of supporters with the Florida
Cannabis Action Network and
distributed fliers that urged people
to "Vote Libertarian to end the
drug war," and that talked of
reforming state marijuana laws for
medical and environmental
use.
"We focus on events like
Guavaween to get the message out
directly to the people," Lorenzo
said.
Lorenzo and other activists
participated in the parade with a float
that bore a picture of Uncle Sam
urinating on the U.S.
Constitution. A jail cell was built
in the front of the float with a
wheelchair behind bars in protest of
what Lorenzo said is a
federal attack against medical
marijuana in California.
The Tampa resident and other
activists distributed about 3,000
fliers to the crowd on Seventh Avenue
Saturday before police
confiscated them, citing a city
ordinance that prohibits pedestrians
and businesses from passing out
handbills in historic Ybor City
without a permit.
Lorenzo, 27, was arrested and charged
with unlawful distribution
of handbills and obstructing or
opposing an officer without
violation. Police also confiscated a
videotape of Lorenzo's arrest.
He was released on $600 bail
Saturday.
A supporter of FLCAN since 1997,
Lorenzo said the law violates
his constitutional right to freedom
of speech.
"We should have the freedom to
distribute literature about any
bad laws in Florida and the United
States on public property,"
said Lorenzo, who has had several
drug related arrests.
But a city ordinance adopted about
two years ago states that
off-premises canvassing "causes
harassment of pedestrians in the
Ybor City Historic District."
The ordinance also states that
canvassing has "a negative
impact on aesthetics" and "causes
sidewalk congestion and impedes
orderly movement of the
crowd."
The law prohibits permit and
nonpermit holders from distributing
handbills on Seventh and Eighth
avenues and any publicly owned
parking lot or garage. Also
prohibited is distribution on Sixth
Avenue, between the eastern boundary
of 16th Street and the
western boundary of 15th Street.
Annette DeLisle of the Ybor City
Chamber of Commerce said
the ordinance was a response to
fliers that littered the streets and
were being distributed by businesses,
many outside the historic
district. "It just got to be out
of hand," DeLisle said. "They would
tape them on the poles and put them
on walls."
DeLisle said she didn't think the
ordinance was unconstitutional
because there are areas designated
for people to distribute fliers,
just not in the historic
district.
Lorenzo said he plans to challenge
the ordinance. "Tampa's City
Council has absolutely overstepped
boundaries in neglecting to
provide provisions for political
groups to exercise their right to
free speech," he said.
-- Researcher John Martin and staff
writer David Karp
contributed to this report.
From: "Les Neron"
<lesneron@...>
Subject: Re: in jail for 6 hours barefoot , standing on a towel
so Robert would freeze
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:13:48 -0500
X-Priority: 3
Status:
yes I even after one (1) hour told then to send me a ambulance and a
doctor
..NOW ..they riduculised me by saying that i was not dieying and
left the
room .. A little later I ask them for my jacket bcz I was in deep pain
and
that would fix it ..for a while ..instead they raise the air
conditioning
unit .. 1 hour whent by and that rookie cop told me only a few
minute (
hourssss ago)..that was at 10;30 or 11;00 am ..all this time I was
yelling
to them that I had not taken my medication and that i had
prescribe
medication that i needed to take at 9;00 am .. That was dennie also ..
I ask
them again for the jacket and my fuck'en shoes ..that was dennie and
the air
conditionner turn up a notch more ..by this time I was wet like a dog(
It's
lots of work being sick like I am ) and shivering like a fuck'en
leaf
because of the intence spasm ( That will make you sweath ) ( with out
Med
for the hole morning ...) I usually need at least 7 grams
to get by
normally .. I had none .
I'm now trying to recuperate but it will take more then 24 hours to be
back
on my feet ( I have to leave at 4;00am for the fuck'in Hospital )
risking
imprisonment for a extra 2 weeks ( untill the courts ) .
At the end ..or toward the end I got taken to the 3rd floor ( walking
when I
could'nt barelly stand up ) for questionning ..I had told him that I
wanted
a lawyer previouselly . None was provided .. I ask for the free
phone call
.. I got that .. but the guy was from Toronto ..like if he could help
me
right now ..REALLY that was a joke .
I'll need to lay down for a while .. will send more ..as I can
remember it
best
Robert Neron
----- Original Message -----
From: <MRenda2503@...>
To: <lesneron@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: in jail for 6 hours barefoot , standing on a towel
so Robert
would freeze
> Sorry to hear that Robert I have forwarded this to Paul Burstein
my lawyer
> and to Alan Young maybe they can help. Hang in there we are
behind you
100%
> all the way! ! !
>
> Marco and Sue
>------------
From: OCannabisSociety@...
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:45:51 EST
Subject: OCS Voter Guide
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Status:
OHIO CANNABIS SOCIETY 2002 VOTER GUIDE
Recommended R Not Recommended NR
Justice Ohio Supreme Court
Tim
Black
R
Maureen
O'Conner NR
Justice Ohio Supreme Court
Janet R
Burnside
R
Evelyn Lundberg
Stratton NR
Governor of State of Ohio
John A Eastman
(I) NR
Timothy F Hagan
(D) R
Bob Taft
(R)
NR
Treasure of State of Ohio
Mary O Boyle
(D)
R
Joseph T Deiters
(R) NR
Attorney General of State of Ohio
Leigh Herrington
(D) R
Jim Petro
(R) NR
Auditor of State of
Ohio
Betty Montgomery
(R) R
Helen Knipe Smith
(D) NR
United States House of Representatives
District 10 Dennis J Kucinich (D)
R
Judy Locy
(I)
NR
John Heben
(R) NR
District 11 Stephanie Tubbs jone (D) NR
Patrick Pappano
(R) R
District 13 Sherrod Brown (D)
R
Ed Pliveros
(R) NR
District 14 Dale Virgil Blanchard (D)
R
Steven C Latourette
(R) NR
The following candidates were asked if they were more likely or less
likely
to support legislation to legalize the medical use of marijuana in the
state
of Ohio. ML=More Likely LL=Less
Likely NR=No Response
Ohio State Senate
District 21 C J Prentiss
(D)
ML
Richard L Norris
(R) ML
District 23 Dan Brady
(D)
ML
Richard E Ress
(R) NR
District 25 Eric D Fingerhut (D)
ML
Jackie Huggins
(R) ML
The following candidates were asked if they were more likely or less
likely
to support legislation to legalize the medical use of marijuana in the
state
of Ohio. ML=More Likely LL=Less Likely
NR=No Response
Ohio House of Representatives
District 7 Ed Jerse
(D)
LL
Steven R Pressman
(R) ML
District 9 Cassandra Wysabrod (R) LL
Claudette J Wooward (D)
NR
District 11 Tony Kaloger (R)
LL
Annie L Key
(D) NR
District 12 Michael Debose (D) NR
Dan Trif
(R)
NR
District 13 Ryan Patrick Demro (R)
NR
Michael J Skindell
(D) ML
District 14 Jerry Martin
(I)
NR
Dale Miller
(D) ML
Michael P Hoag
(R) NR
District 15 Dean E Depiero (D) ML
District 16 Sally Conway Kilbane (R) ML
Kevin M Kennedy
(D) ML
District 17 Blair N Melling (D)
NR
James Peter Trakas
(R) NR
District 18 Susan M Adams (D)
ML
Thomas F Patton
(R) NR
Ohio Court of Appeals
Recommended R Not Recommended
NR
Term beginning 2/9/03 Sean C
Gallagher R
Laura J Gallagher NR
Term beginning 2/10/03 Antony O Calabrese Jr NR
Thomas J Pokorny
R
Term beginning 2/11/03 Patricia Ann Blackmon R
Robert Otto Carson NR
Term beginning 2/12/03 Kenneth A Rocco R
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge
Recommended R Not Recommended NR
Term beginning 1/1/03 Thomas
Patrick Curran R
Michael J Russo NR
Term beginning 1/3/03 Mary J
Boyle NR
George W MacDonald R
Term beginning 1/5/03 Judith
Kilbane Koch NR
Anthony
Rini R
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge
Recommended R Not Recommended NR
Term beginning 2/9/03 Kenneth R
Callahan R
Fred D Middleton
NR
Term beginning 1/7/03 Mark J
Miller NR
Nancy Margaret Russo
R
Unexpired term ending 1/11/05 Robert t Glickman
R
John P O'Donnell
NR
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Pot clubs folding
U.S. raids, threats shut them down around the state
By Marisa Taylor and Jeff McDonald
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
October 30, 2002
It is now a familiar scene from San Francisco to San Diego, from
the
Central Valley to the inner cities - federal agents raiding
marijuana
gardens and shutting down organizations that dispense the
drug.
One after another, under the threat of arrest or
imprisonment,
cannabis club operators across the state have closed their doors
or
stopped providing their wares to sick or dying patients.
Barely a handful of dispensaries remain, and they are
afraid.
Federal officials stepped up their crackdown on pot
collaboratives
after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that there is no
medical
necessity for growing marijuana for patients.
Since that decision, the federal government has raided eight
California
cannabis clubs, including the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource
Cooperative, once a major dispenser of medical marijuana in
the
southern part of the state.
Drug agents say they are enforcing the federal law that prohibits
the
possession or distribution of dangerous narcotics.
But critics complain that the U.S. government is trampling on
states'
rights to govern themselves. California and seven other states
have
adopted medical marijuana laws, despite the federal ban.
Either way, more and more patients are taking the risky step
of
growing their own marijuana or buying it illegally on the
street.
And even though a federal appeals court ruled yesterday
that
physicians cannot be targeted by the Justice Department for
prescribing marijuana, many doctors remain skittish about
writing
such recommendations for their patients.
"The federal government is winning this war without even
going to
court, without testing the law legally," said Steve
McWilliams, the San
Diego medical marijuana activist indicted earlier this month for
illegal
cultivation.
McWilliams, who faces at least five years in federal prison if he
is
convicted, has stopped providing marijuana to the half-dozen or
so
cancer patients and others who relied on him for pot.
So have activists in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz,
Butte
County and other communities where federal agents seized
gardens
and arrested growers in recent months.
"People are genuinely terrified right now," McWilliams
said. "It has
spread like an epidemic throughout the medical marijuana
community."
California voters in 1996 approved Proposition 215, which
gave
patients the right to grow and use marijuana with a
doctor's
recommendation.
But the state law is vague. It does not specify how many plants
are
allowed, where the drug may be smoked, or how it will be
distributed.
Attorneys on both sides of the debate concede that, eventually,
federal
judges will have to fully resolve the dispute.
Meanwhile, elected officials in dozens of cities and counties
across the
state have been trying to find ways to implement Proposition 215
while
at the same time avoiding confrontations with federal law
enforcers.
Members of a San Diego City Council committee, for example,
recently
approved guidelines that allow patients to possess up to three
pounds
of marijuana. At the same time, they warned that their vote does
not
amount to an endorsement of pot smoking.
Despite the prohibition against marijuana under federal law, the
Drug
Enforcement Administration's effort to clamp down on cannabis
clubs
has been less than consistent.
Agents continue to tolerate some clubs that operate o penly, but
put
others out of business. They have confiscated pot gardens as
large as
several hundred plants and as small as a few dozen.
They also repeat the suspicions held by their boss, DEA
Administrator
Asa Hutchinson, who has said he believes there is no medical
benefit
from marijuana.
"This is not about people dying of AIDS or cancer,"
said Donald
Thornhill Jr., spokesman for the DEA in San Diego. "Most of
the
people involved in these cannabis clubs are people who are
looking to
get high."
DEA officials deny that there is a systematic and deliberate
campaign
to curtail cannabis clubs from operating across the state.
The raids and arrests for illegal cultivation, agents say, are
irregular
because of limited resources and other priorities - such
as
investigating the Arellano Felix drug cartel, which is reputed to
ship
tons of drugs across the Mexican border into California.
Federal agents hope the cannabis club crackdown deters people
from
distributing marijuana. "We create a risk and it keeps
people out of the
drug business," Thornhill said.
Alternatives sought
But Ed Rosenthal, the Bay Area pot-growing guru who was arrested
in
February on federal cultivation charges, contends that raiding
clubs
that worked hard to comply with state law could promote
less-diligent
dispensaries.
"The riskier it is, the less likely that you'll have people
who are
interested in the patient," said Rosenthal, who said he will
not violate
terms of his own release by continuing to grow marijuana.
In the meantime, patients who say they rely on marijuana to ease
the
effects of AIDS treatment, chemotherapy or other sicknesses
are
scrambling for alternatives to the increasingly rare cannabis
clubs.
They take their chances cultivating small gardens or buying
marijuana
from strangers.
"I try to keep a low profile," said one AIDS patient
from Ocean Beach
who grows his own marijuana rather than risk dealing with a
cannabis
club. "I don't want to be next on their list."
Rod Johnson, 62, is a terminal cancer patient from Chula Vista.
His
source for marijuana dried up when agents uprooted
McWilliams'
garden last month. Now he relies on friends to supply him with
what he
says is the only medicine that keeps up his appetite - and
spirits.
"I wasn't born and raised being a cannabis enthusiast -
that was taboo.
But I know how cannabis has affected my situation," Johnson
said. "It
makes it more difficult when Steve is not my care provider.
"It's available," but you're not dealing "with
people you can trust."
Glaucoma patient Evan Keliher of Rancho Bernardo smokes pot
every
day. He used to grow plants in a cooperative garden run by
McWilliams, but shied away from that after being hassled by
police.
"I buy it on the street," said Keliher, 71. "You
just have to know who to
see and where."
Abided by state law
Many Proposition 215 activists worked tenaciously to abide by
the
state law.
Before being raided, the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource
Cooperative
had registered as a nonprofit, paid taxes and had even filed a
request
with the DEA to dispense marijuana, said Scott Imler, president
of the
club.
Members of the cooperative secured a loan backed by the city of
West
Hollywood to buy their building.
They continued to expand their client base and by last year
were
dispensing marijuana to almost 1,000 people. Now they turn
away
people seeking marijuana.
"We were not prepared to sneak around in the shadows doing
what we
had done aboveboard before," said Imler, who is waiting to
find out
whether he will be indicted by a federal grand jury.
Three smaller clubs in Los Angeles also folded during the past
year -
either voluntarily or following raids, Imler said. Now, he
steers
patients to other cities because no one he knows still dispenses
in Los
Angeles.
Dozens of cannabis information and resource centers remain open
up
and down the state, but only a handful continue to
distribute
marijuana. Most of those are in the Bay Area, where the
medical
marijuana movement took root.
The San Francisco Patients Cooperative is one of them.
Six days a week, patients stop by the center to play bingo,
watch
television and buy pot. With proper paperwork, patients can
purchase
marijuana for $9 a gram.
Founder Wayne Justmann said the federal crackdown during the
past
year has forced too many patients to find marijuana on the
street, or do
without.
Physicians wary
"I'm so sorry for San Diego and other cities" where
clubs have been
raided, said Justmann, who is 57 and has been HIV-positive for
15
years. "I thank God I'm in San Francisco, where we have a
mayor and
board of supervisors that support these patients."
In San Diego, where the city expects to begin issuing
identification
cards to 3,000 or so medical marijuana patients early next year,
very
few physicians are willing to discuss recommending the drug
publicly,
let alone writing letters for patients.
Not even the doctor who signed McWilliams' recommendation
would
agree to an interview.
Oncologist James Sinclair is not so shy. He still signs letters
for certain
cancer patients who say smoking marijuana reduces the effects
of
chemotherapy and stimulates their appetite.
"I try to back away from talking about how they actually
acquire the
product," Sinclair said. "My notes say 'may use' -
not 'obtain,' like a
true prescription."
Dr. Theresa Yang, who runs a chronic pain clinic in Santee,
stopped
writing recommendations because she thinks the state law is
being
abused, but she also worries about unwanted scrutiny from the
federal
government.
"Hopefully, some day they'll resolve all this," she
said.
Marisa Taylor: (619) 293-1020; marisa.taylor@...
Jeff McDonald: (619) 542-4585; jeff.mcdonald@...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Evidence exonerates man in marijuana case
He is cleared of felony charges on finding that he had doctor's
OK to use it.
By ZAHEERA WAHID
The Orange County Register
A Laguna Beach man has been cleared of marijuana charges after
new evidence
revealed that he had a doctor's approval to use the drug,
officials said Tuesday.
An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday dismissed felony
charges of cultivating
marijuana and possessing marijuana for sale, said Susan
Schroeder, spokeswoman
for the county District Attorney's Office.
"I'm relieved that I don't have to go to trial," said
Ross Embry, 53, an HIV patient who
said he uses marijuana to combat nausea caused by his
medication.
Embry said he is considering suing the government to bring about
change in the way
the medicinal marijuana law, approved by voters in 1996 as
Proposition 215, is
applied.
"They put the populace in a Catch-22 situation and a
quandary, and not only people
who are arrested, but the police," Embry said.
"There are a lot of people in this building
that need it, and where do they get it? That's the flaw in the
law. The reality is that it has
nothing to do with the drug law; it has to do with compassionate
use."
Embry, who lives at Hagan Place, a government-subsidized building
for HIV patients,
said he won't grow marijuana in his building anymore, but he does
plan to reclaim his
seized marijuana and donate it to an oncology department at a
hospital.
Embry will need a court order to retrieve the 25 pounds of
marijuana Laguna Beach
police seized from his apartment Sept. 17, police spokesman Jason
Kravetz said.
Schroeder said the case does not set any precedent.
"Our job is to do justice, and we will look at every case
individually," Schroeder said.
"And when we found exonerating evidence, we decided to drop
the charges."
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
A banner day for Prop. 215
Oct. 30, 2002 Orange County Register California Focus
By Daniel M. Abrahamson
Two days before Halloween, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit issued a
landmark ruling halting the federal government's attempts to
scare California
physicians and their seriously ill patients from uttering boo
about medical marijuana.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled, in Conant v.
Walters, that
physicians have a federal constitutional right, under the First
Amendment, to
recommend medical marijuana to their patients, and that patients
likewise have the
constitutional right to receive such recommendations. In so
ruling, the court repudiated
efforts by federal drug czar John Walters, Attorney General John
Ashcroft and Drug
Enforcement Administration chief Asa Hutchison to censor
physician speech with
respect to marijuana - an attempt to undermine the will of
California voters who passed
Proposition 215 in 1996.
The Conant decision is important for several reasons.
First, it upholds the right (and underscores the duty) of
physicians to impart their
medical advice to patients, even when that advice is politically
unpopular in
Washington, D.C.
Second, it vindicates the interests of seriously ill patients in
learning the honest
opinions of their medical providers as to what therapies,
mainstream or otherwise,
might help them.
Third, the Conant decision reaffirms a century's worth of legal
precedent that the
practice of medicine is regulated by the states, not the federal
government. The Justice
Department and White House had asked the court to give federal
government officials
the power to monitor, approve - and veto - communications between
doctors and their
patients. The Ninth Circuit rejected this argument, instead
recognizing that doctors and
patients together are best-suited to make treatment decisions,
and that state, not
federal, officials, are best-situated to monitor those
decisions.
Fourth, the Conant decision is a resounding victory for states'
rights. In 1996, California
voters enacted Prop. 215 to ensure that seriously ill persons did
not have to do battle
with police, prosecutors and judges in order to use marijuana in
their fight for their life
and their health. In declaring the federal government's scare
tactics unconstitutional,
the Ninth Circuit gave a green light to California, Alaska,
Colorado, Maine, Nevada,
Oregon, Washington and Hawaii - and the several other states
seriously considering
legalizing marijuana for medical purposes - to continue their
courageous and
compassionate stand on the issue. The federal government would
like state officials to
believe that because federal law continues to prohibit marijuana
for all purposes,
states are not free under their own laws to permit physicians to
recommend,
caregivers to cultivate, and patients to possess and use medical
marijuana. The
Conant decision shows this claim to be false.
Fifth, the federal appeals court goes out of its way to observe
that medical marijuana is
not some "foolish or faddish" California notion.
Marijuana is a respected, recognized
medical treatment that has relieved debilitating symptoms such as
pain, nausea and
wasting. A substantial and growing body of medical literature
demonstrates as much.
An increasing number of medical and health organizations support
states' efforts to
legalize marijuana for medical use. Judge Alex Kozinski cited
these facts in the court's
decision. In so doing, the court has driven a stake through the
heart of the federal
government's disingenuous campaign to declare that marijuana has
no medical
usefulness, and the DEA's recent and mean-spirited efforts to
deprive seriously ill
patients of their medicine.
The Conant decision is a delicious treat for all who believe in
the sanctity of the
physician-patient relationship, the autonomy of the states to
legislate on matters of
health, and the efficacy of medical marijuana. It's time,
however, for the federal
government to stop its nasty tricks and let Californians get on
with their business
without further interference from the DEA.
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From: "Rev. Lynnette Shaw"
<revshaw@...>
To: dana@...
Bcc:
Subject: Re: MMM2002 #51: Marc Emery Set to Dose a Crackhead; Join 161
other cities on th
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:37:27 -0800
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Oct 2002 01:37:29.0540 (UTC)
FILETIME=[1327B840:01C2807E]
Status:
Hello Dana, we are still okay.
correction to the San Francisco MMM 03 contact, the only email is to
Clark Sullivan at "freemansullivan@..." the other
email and the phone number is no longer right.
plus please add www.thehempevolution.org for SF contact
site
love,
lynnette shaw
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Marijuana activist critical of sergeant's war on
drugs
Complaint filed with police board as drug strategy takes centre
stage in election
Karenn Krangle
Vancouver Sun
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Marijuana activist Marc Emery has filed a complaint with the
Vancouver police board over a
police officer's criticism of the way the city is handling drug
problems in the Downtown
Eastside.
In a letter addressed to Mayor Philip Owen, who chairs the police
board, Emery, mayoral
candidate for the Marijuana Party, says Sergeant Al Arsenault was
out of line by saying the city
has been putting a Band-Aid on drug addiction with its
liberal approach.
Emery was responding to a Vancouver Sun story in last Saturday's
editions in which
Arsenault, who is opposed to the harm reduction approach to drug
addiction -- including safe
drug-consumption sites -- expressed hope for a tougher approach
by a new right-wing
mayor and police board.
"The politics are rapidly changing here, with a new
chief of police to be selected in a few
days' time, some new (right-wing) police board members and a new
mayor to follow in
a few months," Arsenault replied in an e-mail earlier this
year to Belgian doctor Ivan
Van Damme, who had asked Arsenault for details on the city's drug
situation.
Arsenault is president of the Odd Squad, a group of police
officers who do public
education on drug issues, and is vice-president of IDEAS-Canada,
the Canadian
version of an American organization that subscribes to the war on
drugs philosophy
and is opposed to drug legalization and harm reduction.
But Emery's letter says Arsenault's approach will only increase
drug-related violence,
and asks the police board to "review the
appropriateness of this kind of political
interference on the part of a public servant."
It adds: "In this new political environment of growing
tolerance and understanding,
there is no room for drug warriors like [Sergeant]
Arsenault.
"If [Sergeant] Arsenault cannot accept the new
harm-reduction philosophy, he should
step down as a member of the Vancouver police force and get out
of the way of
social progress."
Emery added in an interview Monday he felt Arsenault's comments
carried "a subtext
of intimidation."
Owen, who had not yet seen Emery's letter, said the matter of
discipline would be up
to the police chief, but he called Arsenault's views ridiculous,
outrageous and
ill-informed and that they reflected the war on drugs, which
didn't work.
"I wish he'd do a bit of homework instead of catering to the
people who believe in
the war on drugs, which is a failure," Owen said
Monday.
"It's unbelievable that he could be so ignorant and make
such statements and do so
under the auspices of the Odd Squad, which is part of the police
department."
Arsenault, careful to stress his opinions are his and not
necessarily those of the
Vancouver police department, wrote that "over the years, we
have in effect
Band-Aided many of these people to death because of our liberal
views [on] our
rights to use drugs. I have said this many times, but addicts
need the cure, not the
poison. I have difficulty understanding why those in power fail
to recognize this
simple concept."
The Sun story also said Arsenault complained last spring that an
addiction
counsellor's talk to city managers about harm reduction was part
of Owen's
brainwashing efforts to have people support his controversial
"four pillars" drug
strategy, which consists of law enforcement, treatment,
prevention and harm
reduction.
Owen, who is not running for re-election, partly because of a
rift with the
right-leaning Non-Partisan Association over this issue, scoffed
at the brainwashing
statement and said 27 cities in Europe and Australia have brought
in similar policies
and were successful.
"All of them are of the opinion that it's the right thing to
do, because you're
rehabilitating the user," he said.
Both Owen and Emery disagreed with Arsenault's view that addicts
should either be
forced into treatment or jailed.
"See, he doesn't understand the assumption that they're
sick, and it's a chronic relapse
condition," Owen said. "If you put them into jail,
there's easy access to drugs."
Emery said forcing addicts into jail would cost taxpayers more
than just giving them
the drugs, and that addicts would only benefit from treatment if
they underwent it
willingly.
Mayoral candidate Larry Campbell, a former RCMP officer and chief
coroner who
was short-listed for the job of police chief earlier this year,
also would not comment
on whether Arsenault's statements were appropriate.
"It's not my position to say," said Campbell, who
worked with Owen on the four
pillars approach and safe-consumption sites. "If there was
any concern, Chief [Jamie]
Graham would be looking into it.
"I think when you read the e-mail, it's clear what their
agenda is."
Arsenault sent an e-mail to city council and police officials in
December saying: "Let's
stop trying to dignify drug addiction and quit enabling and
facilitating bad [unsafe]
behaviour by promising 'safe' injection sites and heroin
maintenance trials."
He has also suggested if the drug addiction problems were pushed
out to the entire
city, instead of being confined to the Downtown Eastside, people
would be
motivated to make changes.
¬©¬ÝCopyright 2002¬ÝVancouver Sun
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Saturday, October 26, 2002
Given pot laws, how honest are feds?
Oct. 27, 2002 Orange County Register Reader Rebuttal
By Rick L. Root
The Westminster resident is operations manager for a machinery
manufacturer in Santa Ana.
In reference to the congressional call for an inquiry into what
U.S. officials knew about
al-Qaida threats before the Sept. 11 attacks, Audrey Wicks
rhetorically asks, "What
American in his right mind could have had such information and
not put out an alarm?"
[Letters, Oct. 16] - as if it were a given that our leaders are
incapable of considering
average citizens to be expendable. The question deserves much
more than cursory
agreement to its implied rhetorical answer - not as an
indictment of government
involvement but as a means to show that government is capable of
such callousness.
There are many who claim FDR knew of and allowed the attack on
Pearl Harbor in
order to sway public opinion toward entering World War II. If
true, his administration
Even more compelling evidence exists that suggests LBJ was aware
of the gross
inaccuracies in his Gulf of Tonkin speech, which served to
escalate our involvement in
Vietnam. Again, if true, leadership decided American lives to be
expendable in the
advancement of desired policy.
Of course, there are other examples that might indicate areas of
our government do
indeed consider citizens to be expendable for the advancement of
policy. But most of
us by nature will continue to trust those who lead us, and to
dismiss contrary claims as
loony conspiracy theories, until such time as irrefutable proof
is laid in our hands.
But for me and millions of other Americans, absolute proof is in
our hands. That proof:
marijuana.
Over the last four decades, marijuana use has become commonplace
in America. In
that time, millions from all walks of life have used it
recreationally without harm. Its
medicinal qualities are recognized and taken advantage of by tens
of thousands of sick
and dying Americans who have found a non-toxic means of improving
the quality of
their lives. Yet government and most politicians from both
parties continue to refuse the
facts, both anecdotal and clinical, to promote and protect the
prohibition against and
the Class 1 scheduling of marijuana. They lie to us. Millions of
Americans know the
truth from years and years of first- and second-hand experiences
with the herb. The
lies are told to protect and advance policies, programs and
business dependent upon
its prohibition, which has caused great harm to millions of good
Americans. People
are expendable for the sake of desired policy.
Marijuana doesn't kill. No one has ever died from its ingestion.
Yet government has you
believe otherwise. They would have you believe marijuana is
addictive. Hardly.
Marijuana is being used successfully as a means of beating
addiction to drugs that kill,
such as alcohol. But don't take my word for it or government's.
Simply look around your
community. Where are the bodies that marijuana supposedly claims?
Where are the
signs of harm? Look in your jails and prisons - there's your
harm. The harms of
marijuana are slight compared to the harms of marijuana
prohibition.
Or look at the treatment of a local medical marijuana user. AIDS
patient Ross Embry of
Laguna Beach ["O.C. case a test for medical marijuana,"
Local News, Oct.16] was
arrested for cultivating his medicine. Now he is suffering, and
he will suffer further - not
from the use of marijuana but from the government lies that prop
up its prohibition. Is
he expendable for the sake of the government's desired
policy?
"What American in his right mind could have had such
information and not put out an
alarm?" the letter-writer asked.
Good question, Ms. Wicks. Alarms are sounded yet apathy prevails.
Or worse,
messengers are dismissed because the message is unpopular. The
tyranny isn't as
much that government boldly lies as it is that the majority
blindly believes.
World - Reuters
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Upset Canada Issues Rare Caution on Travel to U.S.
Wed Oct 30, 5:52 PM ET
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, in a highly unusual travel warning, on
Wednesday
urged Canadian citizens born in countries like Iran and Saudi
Arabia to think
carefully before entering the United States, saying they could
fall afoul of tough new
U.S. anti-terrorism laws.
The Foreign Ministry said it issued the advisory after Washington
stipulated that
anyone born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, or Syria needed to be
photographed and
fingerprinted on arrival in the United States.
This includes citizens of Canada, a country which is
traditionally regarded as one of
the closest allies of the United States.
"It's not something we approve of and we've registered our
strongest disapproval
with the United States authorities," Foreign Minister Bill
Graham told reporters.
"We can't tell the Americans what to do on their own
territory. What we're telling them
is that we don't accept this and we find it very troubling...I am
certain that in due
course common sense will prevail." The Foreign Ministry
advisory, posted on its
Web site, is another indication of how ties between the two
neighbors have soured
in past months amid disputes over trade, policy toward Iraq and
immigration
policies.
Before the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, people from both countries
crossed the shared
5,525 mile border with barely a thought. Security and identity
checks have now been
tightened considerably.
The U.S. rules, introduced on Sept. 11 this year, are designed to
tighten security by
authorizing the Immigration and Naturalization Service to track
the arrival and
departure of non-immigrants.
Ottawa's travel warning follows the controversial deportation of
a Canadian citizen by
the United States to Syria, his birthplace, earlier this
month.
The advisory also said Canadians born in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
or Yemen could
attract special attention from U.S. authorities.
"In these circumstances, the (ministry) advises Canadians
who were born in the
above (eight) countries or who may be citizens of these countries
to consider
carefully whether they should attempt to enter the United States
for any reason,
including transit to or from third countries," it
said.
Graham said he had raised the issue last month with Secretary of
State Colin
Powell (news - web sites), who gave assurances that some kind of
flexibility would
be introduced for Canadian citizens.
"We're expecting some news from the Americans. They have not
brought in that
flexibility," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Reynald
Doiron.
In Washington, the State Department said the new rules were
designed to make the
United States safer.
"I think we are concerned that many, many countries in the
world have had problems
with terrorists," spokesman Richard Boucher told a
briefing.
He referred specifically to the case of Algerian-born Ahmed
Ressam, who was
arrested in December 1999 trying to enter the United States from
Canada in a car
packed with explosives. It later emerged that he had ignored a
Canadian deportation
order against him and even managed to obtain a Canadian
passport.
"So, yes, it's a big border and bad guys try to come across.
I think that goes without
saying. The question is what we, in cooperation with the Canadian
government, can
do to make both our countries safer," said Boucher.
Last month, U.S. agents at New York's John F. Kennedy airport
arrested a Canadian
they suspected of links to militant groups, finally expelling him
to Syria on Oct. 8.
Mohamed Arar -- who also holds a Syrian passport -- was arrested
as he was
changing planes on his way back to Canada from Tunisia. He is in
detention in
Syria, where authorities are probing whether he has links to
groups such as al
Qaeda.
U.S. critics charge that Canada's immigration system does not do
enough to weed
out militants who might want to launch attacks in the United
States. Graham said he
had stressed to U.S. officials that all immigrants had to go
through tough security
screening before coming to Canada.
"I have pointed out to them that both our countries are
countries of immigration and
that Canadian citizens have a right to be treated as Canadian
citizens wherever they
may be born," he said.
Hussein Amery, president of the National Council on Canada-Arab
Relations, said
the U.S. rules were a clear case of racial profiling and urged
Ottawa to toughen its
stance.
"It certainly looks, smells and feels like racism...the
Americans are certainly not
treating Canadians as friends when they do this," he added,
referring to the Arar
case.
Canada's ties with the United States are already under strain
over a protracted trade
dispute about Canadian lumber exports, fresh tensions over wheat
exports and
Ottawa's opposition to a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq.
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From: MARC <marc420emery@...>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] This weeks iboga extract
administration
OK, I will start at a lower dose. I will let the group know how this
person
progresses.
Today is the day.
Marc
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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] This weeks iboga extract administration
Status:
Marc,
2 more cents.
dl-phenylalanine (a "required" amino acid) is
likely to help your crack addict, this is aside from
the ibo issue. If you do an internet search on
"phenylalanine AND cocaine" (or
"amphetamine" or "addiction" and
phenylalanine). You could also look up "depression
AND phenylalanine" and there you will find it is
about as effective as the most commonly used psychotic
medications, (eg welbutrin, various SSRI's). Most
people have no side effects, a few people will get
speedy - D-phenylalanine can be used instead of the
DL- flavor. Some people it doesn't work, use tyrosine
instead of phenylalanine. They are precursors of major
neurotransmitters, epinephrine, nor-epinephrine,
dopamine... (I don't have the exact details in my
head) and effectively treat some of the
post-withdrawal symptoms such as edginess. It is
subtle and may take weeks (to a month) to take effect
but it does work quite well, I still take it. Get it
in any health food store, about 6 bucks for 60.
With ibogaine it (dl-phenylalanine) seems to make the
recovery time quicker/easier, I couldn't say
specifically if it does anything more than the obvious
(as stated above) when mixed with ibogaine in a crack
addict, it isn't going to hurt.
Another amino acid "tryptophan" has been
reported to help mood and take some of what I call the
"darkness" out of opiate addicts ibogaine
treatment. You are using Milk with the ibo so that may
help mood. Tryptophan is the precursor of serotonin.
Melatonin is also used and can enhance mood as well as
help with post-ibo sleeping. People with SADDs
shouldn't take melatonin - as I found out, makes me
depressed.
Another substance I have (and many others) used long
before ibogaine was Rescue Remedy, it is great for
emotional crisis, nice and calming. I never used it
with ibo but have for addiction a number of times - it
will mix with ibo quite safely. Come to think of it,
might be a good treatment for ibogaine induced
anxiety... hummm, gotta try that one. Most
health-food stores would carry it. Very subtle, takes
the "edge" off, has zero side effects or drug
interactions.
Good luck.
Brett
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:16:48 -0500
From: Kenneth Alper MD <kra1@...>
[sea-aids] 13th International Harm Reduction Conference
Report
... other treatments.
On to cannabis, the therapeutic use of this drug by 50 crack
and cocaine addicts in Brazil yielded surprisingly good results, among
them being: that cannabis shows anti-addictive properties. In another
session, cannabis decriminalization was seen to decrease alcohol
consumption and therefore decrease serious road injuries after
comparing annual rates before and after (decriminalization).
Likewise, these findings were acknowledged but not necessarily
advocated stressed Andre Kastelic, the conference president. Alcohol
consumption and smoking were not left
as non-issues. Where
decreasing consumption of alcohol was the goal, the focus was on
moderation, not eradication (of consumption) while targetting
groups at risk; evaluation of new
policies; dissemination of results; with a caution to beware of the
effects of the EU's accession. On decreasing
smoking, a harsher stance came
out (among others): adaptation of significant price and tax increases,
implementation of complete ...
From: "ernest drucker"
<emdrucker@...>
To: Vincent Marrone <publicstrategies@...>
I have been learning about the use of Marijuana to help individuals
reduce
crack and cocaine use - a weak study was published based on some work
in
Brazil and Im about to publish an issue of Addiction Research and
Theory (
which I edit) that sites the use of MJ in Brooklyn to do the
same .
Is this something we want to add to the "medical" uses
list?
Ernie
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From: Dana Beal
<dana@...>
Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: Medical Marijuana Wins a
Court Victory
Cc: Vincent Marrone
<publicstrategies@...>
I would put it under the "public health" uses of
cannabis, as I have advocated for years. Affects the same glutamate 5
pathway as ibogaine. Mice bioengineered not to have this pathway could
not be induced to self-administer cocaine.
See the following--
"I believe the winning arguments for the next stage of the
marijuana debate arise from the fact tobacco is carcinogenic and
addictive--and marijuana is not--directly due to the opposite
psychoactive mechanisms (and immunological and neurological
consequences) of the drugs involved, nicotine and cannabinoids, to
wit:
In the brain, nicotine stimulates glutamate, which triggers
inflammation and produces free radicals, which "turn on" the
carcinogens in the smoke. The cannabinoids in marijuana mimic
naturally produced neurotransmitters that "back-signal"
across the synaptic cleft telling glutamate-firing neurons to chill
out, enabling the immune system to suppress inflammation and sop up
free radicals--so that in pot smoke, the very same carcinogens never
get a chance to turn on cancer. In fact, preliminary studies show that
cannabinoids seem to kill certain types of cancer cells (glioma,
lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer and prostate cancer).
Good news indeed! Yet we would never know, without research into other
psycho-actives that also block glutamate, that this effect is always
paired with effects that are both anti-stroke and anti-addictive. Mice
that were genetically engineered not to have the mGluR5 glutamate
pathway could not be trained to self-administer cocaine, no matter how
much their dopamine or serotonin spiked. Diszocilpine (Merck
801), a stroke medication which blocks glutamate at the
n-Methyl-d-asparate calcium channel, was found to by scientists
studying Ibogaine to abolish withdrawal and tolerance to opiates
and down-regulate supersensitivity to stimulants.
Likewise marinol, a form of THC, is commonly reported to stop working
to stimulate appetite after some weeks. Brian Murphy found that
THC is vaporized at a much lower temperature than the cannabidiols,
which are left behind in the vaporizer; while New England researchers
looking for some medical benefits from the "non-psychoactive"
cannabidiol found potent antistroke effect. All of which gives rise to
the inference that smoked marijuana may be both more anti-addictive
and anti-carcinogenic than any other route of administration.
I concede it is possible to tell folks all this without ever
mentioning Ibogaine. But unless you want to leave out a younger
generation that grew up understanding prozac and serotonin, cocaine
and dopamine, you're going to have to refer to the very same pathways
in the brain to explain how marijuana works. Keith Stroup is fond of
comparing pot to a glass of wine, but that is an unfair comparison.
Alcohol works like heroin. The National Institute of Drug Abuse, on
the other hand, classifies cannabis as a hallucinogen, and in fact it
is part of the same sub-class as ayahuasca (harmala) and the iboga
alkaloids. (Pot does post-synaptically what they do
pre-synaptically).
The important thing is NIDA already concedes hallucinogens are
NOT ADDICTING. I predict that just as the lull that followed the
failure to legalize pot under Jimmy Carter ended when Jack Herer began
to propagate the scientific facts regarding hemp, dissemination of
these new discoveries about marijuana, cancer and addiction will end
the lull that set in when we failed to achieve any reforms under Bill
Clinton. And because the arguments against cannabis are orchestrated
centrally by the U.S. and the U.N. all over the world, the impact of
this new news will be the same in all cities, in all countries, on all
the continents.
Dana Beal/Cures not Wars
IF YOU WANT YR CONTACT ON THE NEW IBOGAINE POSTER, SET UP AN
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To get on the poster for the 2003 Global March for Cannabis
Liberation, check yr contact info and add yr city to the List, which
right now consists of 161 cities:
Abbotsford: 604-607-1111 Tim Felger <tfleger@...> About 100
marchers who refused to pay to march.
Albany: Terry Phelan 518-436-7098
Albuquerque: Rob Taylor (505) 565-4150 or Rich Haley
<writch@...> Between 500 and 1000 participants in
'02, no arrests
Amherst: Angela Panaccione panaccio@...
413-545-1122
Amsterdam: +31(0)20-6107807 +31(0)6-16314682 http://www.legalize.net
http://www.legalize.org
Arlington: Paula Matson 817-299-8447
Athens:
Auckland: Chris Fowlie norml@... ph 09 302-5255 2000
participants in '02.
Austin: Tracy Hayes <marijuanamarch4@...> 512.693.2356,
cell 512.587.8838, 900 Bouldin, Austin TX, 78704 Nearly 1,000
participants in '02.
Batesville/Oxford: 662-578-6993 Gary / NFN Enterprise
<nfn@...> 1509 Orwood Rd. 250 protestors in '02, no
arrests.
Baton Rouge: Robinptilley@... (225)667-9270
Battle Creek: "Jay Statzer" <jstatzer@...>
616-697-4521
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/battlecreek.htm 20 to
60 folks in '02.
Berlin: Martin Muencheberg <martin@...>
0049-30-29490201 http://www.hanfparade.de 200 participants, 2,000
spectators in '02.
Berne: Swiss Hanf Koordination Sekretariat + 41-31-398-1444
<infor@...> Roman will know which Swiss
cities
are marching.
Birmingham: Grow More Weed Campaign, PO Box 9121, Birmingham
B138AU. 01212561303. (Mark Badger) Fax: 0121 256 1302.
email:
growmoreweed@... www.growmoreweed.co.uk
March/Festival foundered over Biblical interpretation; just 20
people in '02.
Boone: Stan Chamberlain jc48534@... 828 266
7587 ASU Box 7947, Boone NC 28608
Boston: Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition\NORML P.O. Box
0266, Georgetown, MA 01833-0366 781-944-2266 -
http://www.masscann.org - 781-779-1334 fax Signature-gathering
drive in '02.
Boulder: Ralph Shnelvar ralph@...
303-546-6125 or Fred Smith 303-449-2390
<smithmf@...>
Braunschweig: <cannabislegal@...> This is an info stall
in
Braunschweig distributing leaflets and other information
material from a stall in a shopping area.
Bremen: Silke Tel. 0179/180 25 25 Lieder@... Olaf 0162/77 34
576 Party-Project: 33 99 334 party@... Some 300
participants in '02 despite the bad weather.
Brno: Vaclav Linkov, <linkov@...> Tel.:
+420-737-811107
http://www.legalizace.cz http://www.l.s.cz
Brussels: Ottavio Marzocchi <omarzocchi@...>
+32-2-284-5496 www.radicalparty.org
Bucharest: ClauditZa clauditza_f@...
www.iarba.verde.de.acasa.go.ro 004092195819 address: Spliff
Decision, viorele street, nr 34 Bucharest, Romania or Poke
www.marihuana.ro 004091343202 address: piata romana, Bucharest,
Romania 300 active smokers on a small beach named Kudos in
'02.
Buenos Aires: daihatsu missminipimer@... www.mefis.to
or miss olga summers olgasummers@... www. ligalais.com ARDA
(011) 15 40289847 RADDUD (011) 46357820
Nos juntaremos el 4 de mayo, 16 hs., a fumar uno en el planetario
buenos aires.
Buffalo: Philip L Beavers jr./B.A.C.H
<BLocman420@...>
716-895-1987 or 716-578-3410 1160 E. LOVEJOY (st) buffalo
14206 600-700 people over the course of the day in '02; all 3
networks; no police problems
Burlington: Denny Lane / Brendan Kinney, Vermont Libertarian
Party & VT-NORML dennylane@... / chair@...
(802)
496-2387 http://vtnorml.org/MMM 802-496-2387 POB 537,
Waitesfield, Vt 05673 or matt hogg
<mhogg@... (802) 865-9410. 1,000 in attendence in '02,
no arrests.
Capetown: "greggoodwin" <greggoodwin@...> or
"Marcus \(Home\)" <mt3825@...> 100
people, mostly Rasta's, in '02.
Charlotte: Ragan Tolbert OnThatLevel@...
Chicago: Caren Thomas, WCHDB, 2501 N. Lincoln, PMB#157; Chicago,
IL 60614; 773-381-9330 - cell - 847-344-9394 email or
773-363-2942
chicagomarch2002@... -or-
windycityhemp420@...
http://www.windycityhemp.org
Chico: 530-345-1997 <chicodank@...> or
http://www.pot-party.com or adrian aguilar ode2thewalls@...
(530)898-2150 or voicemail pgr 530-571-2071 Approx. 420 participants
in '02.
Christchurch: Blair Anderson <blair@...> Mild Green
Media Centre ph: ++64 3 389-4065 Website
pages.quicksilver.net.nz/blair Newsforum
news://http://www.reddfish.co.nz/alcp 500 participants in '02.
Cincinnati: the Happy Hemptress <hemptress@...>
513-684-HEMP
Cleveland: John <OCannabisSociety@...> (216)521-9333
http://www.timesoft.com/ncnorml 2,000 participants. No arrests.
Cologne: gow!Club CannaCom e.V. /redAktion: 0221 562-6347
"Vinnie" <info@...> http://www.grow.de Info
booth by grow! w. JES, akzept &
VfD drew interest...
Colorado Springs: Bob Melamede <rmelamed@...> or
Mstrmanic@... Stephan Ballasch Continuous presence of a few
hundred people in the park in '02.
Columbus: Russ Selkirk, Sean Luse OSU-SSDP
<>osussdp@... 614-291-1026 or Ken
Schweickart 614-265-VOTE <>dpeo@... 650
participants, no arrests.
Concord: (603)682-9077 nhorml@... or http://www.nhorml.org.org
30 people in '02, no cops.
Copenhagen: Klaus Tuxen hampenyt@...
http://www.hampepartiet.dk or Zid Dhartha mr_azid@...
http://www.christiania.org/ (+0045) 32 95 65 07 org: Hampepartiet (
The party For HEMP) http://www.hampepartiet.dk address: F.H.B.
hampens plads Christiania, 1407 Kbh. K.150 on march, 500 at smoke-in
in '02.
Daingerfield: johnny s. chambliss rollinxoxo@... p.o. box
484, ore city, texas 75683
Darwin: mick lambe pariahnt@... http://napnt.tripod.com 30
marchers, 35 police, but no arrests due media spotlite.
DeKalb: "Adam Timm" <itsmeuwant2c@...>
Denver: Ken Gorman 303-935-6534 or ralph@...
303-546-6125
Des Moines: iowanorml@... (515) 288-5798
iowanorml.home.mchsi.com/ http://commonlink.com/~olsen/ ,
mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/ , http://iowanorml.org/
http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/index.html ; or Terry
Mitchell
(515) 789-4442; 608 Dallas St., Dexter, Iowa 50070. 300 marchers,
police friendly.
Detroit: "Professor Hemp" <newagecitizen@...>
313-563-3192 or "jude
joseph" acididea@... 313 438 1668
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/detroit.htm 90 to 120
participants exposed to Ibogaine message.
Dover: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...>
Delaware Cannabis Society c/o Richard J.
Schimelfenig, 3504 Winterhaven Drive, Newark, DE 19702,
(302)
456-9402 299 demonstrators, 8,000 spectators, cops watched and
did nothing in '02.
Dublin: "Butler, Philip" <phillty2@...> +353 1
4163707 or
<jday@...> http://www.cannabisireland.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group//ie-cannabis/ 1,000 people in
"02.
Duesseldorf: Marlon Werkhausen
<marlon@...>
http://www.gesellschaftsprobleme.de phone: 049-172-7591795.
100 participants, good atmosphere.
Durban: <ezpz.co.za> or <ezpz@...> +27 31 2016
359
PHONE AND FAX. http://www.ezpz.co.za Post net Suite 136,
Private
Bag X 04, DALBRIDGE, 4014, SOUTH AFRICA Justin Ballot, 134 Clark
Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
Edinburgh: "Linda Hendry"<linda@...>
UK -
0131 667-6488
Eugene: Kris Millegan <Hempsters@...> 800-556-2012
http://www.ctrl.org/mmm 600-800 folks in
'02. One arrest.
Fairbanks: Timothy 907-474-9007
Feldkirch: <kontakt@...> 3. Hempfest Organized
by
Legalize! ÷sterreich and Burgerinitiative Cannabis
(Citizens'
Initiative Cannabis)
Flensburg: Peter Bluhm <peter-bluhm@...> phone:
Irene:
04632-871771 Peter: 0461-13620
Flint: Rev. A.S."Happy" Wright <happy_hempster@...>
989
872 8005 http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/flint.htm 100
participants in '02.
Ft. Lauderdale: Sean LaPierre 954-584-8979 4750 N.W. 10th Court (Apt.
314), Plantation, FL 33313 email: imagic music@... 200
participants, 500 spectators, no arrests.
Ft Wayne: NickStreet@... (260) 496-8542
Ft. Worth: "Chet Frank" <chet56@...> 5600 North
beach St., Fort Worth TX 76137
Garberville : 707 923 4488 "Paul Encimer"
<encimer@...>
Box 162, Piercy CA 95587; or "jeri"
<jeri@...>
Halifax: 902 865-8606 Michael Patriquin
<mpat@...>
HempWorks, 93 Orchard Dr, Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia B4E
3B3
Hamburg: Martina Katzsch <hanftv@...> ++49 40
4394493
Kulturhaus Eppendorf about 70 people in '02.
Hayward: Rebecca Oliver mil_mari_march@....
510.481.5349 617 grant ave, slz, ca 94580
Event Location : Hayward BART Organization : Loose Confederation
of Med. Mari Users Rally @ BART station & march in the San
Francisco parade, as soon as they get it together--concert?
maybe.
Hearst: "Les Neron" <lesneron@...>
1-705-362-8402 Robert Neron(Federal Exemptee)
Box:1346, Hearst Ontario P0L 1N0
Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org sky@...
Finnish Cannabis Association,
Sorvaajankatu 9 A, 00810 Helsinki, Finland 800 participants in
'02.
Hilo: Roger Christie <pakaloha@...> (808) 961-0488
http://www.thc-ministry.org 200 in '02.
Houston: Dean Farrell <fdb@...> (281)752-9198.
http://www.cultural-baggage.com c/o Dean Becker, 11215 Oak
Spring, Houston, TX 77043 Total attendance was about 5 hundred in '02.
Narc infiltrators mar event.
Hull: Carl Wagner phone: +44 01482494789 5 Victoria
Square,
Ella Street, Hull HU5 3AL, U.K. 3-400 on March grew to 1,000 in
jam in Pearson Park. Cops backed down after threatening arrest because
of media frenzy.
Huntsville: Angel Starlin 256-858-0543, cell 655-6109 or "Acorn"
256-489-2607 or <mikecrockett256@...>
1267-A jupiter court, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35808.
Indianapolis: Neal Smith, <inorml@...>,
317-335-6023
Voice Mail, 3601 N. Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, IN 46205
http://www.inorml.org 175 participants at peak in '02.
Ithaca: Adam Hirsch <ah222@...>, 111 Dryden Rd(Apt
9C),
Ithaca, NY 14850. (607) 227-0302 200 marchers in
quiet protest in '02.
Jefferson City: Al Minta (417)885-3993
http://www.cannabisrevival.com/ cannabisal@... address:
1653
N. Patterson (Apt A), Springfield, MO 65803 or Columbia
NORML/Jeremy & Amanda 573-815-9821 400 participants over the
day in '02.
Jerusalem: Joseph NeedelR@... (011 972) 55-344-859
Kansas City: <mohemp@...> David 816-678-7447, 'its
a
beautiful day' 3918 broadway, kansas city mo. 64111... 816
931
6169.
Kent: 330-673-3060 Matthew S. Donowick 237 1/2 E. Summit st.,
Kent, OH 44242 <TennJedJr@...> 45 people, event overshadowed
by Kent remembrance in '02.
Knoxville: Aerow Albrook <sparx17@...> Matt Barker
316 Russfield Dr., Knoxville, TN 37922
Lansing: Kathy Kennedy 517-628-3915 or e-mail: "kathy
kennedy"
<prohibitionx@...>
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/lansing.htm 300 participants
in '02.
Leipzig: C.U. Rolf http://www.feinkost13.org tel 03412131477 or
"veejaykay" <veejaykay@...>
rolfdereinzigename@...,
lxc@... j–rg klepsch, simildenstr.12, 04277
Leipzig-germany Parade w. 1000-1500 participants and
10 loudspeaker trucks, following the route of the famous
1989
demonstrations that brought down the wall, swelling to 2000
people who braved pouring rain at main train station. One
arrest.
Lexington: Gatewood Gailbrath 859-259-1522
gatewood@...
Limburg: Batlle@... (Valentin Batlle) 11.05.2002, 08:00
AM to 04:00 PM Limburg City Europaplatz M.M.M-Event with Music
(Söllner, Joint Venture ...) Valentin Batlle, Hanf Aktivist
Little Rock: Jamie Collins <k_kar420@...> (501)
663-4216
1516 Fairpark Blvd., Little Rock, Ark. 72204 45 marchers at State
Capitol, not one arrest.
Ljubljana: borut.delfabbro@... #352; ou-Lj,
Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana or Mojca Štraus
mojca@... 0038641786490 Vinski vrh5a, 3240 Šmarje pri
jelšah, Ljubljana, Slovenia www.konoplja.org
http://www.sou.uni-lj.si/
Rally Concert
London: International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243,
London, W1A 1YF, UK. Chris: 020 7637 7467. Fax: 0870 0548646.
E
Mail: may2001@... http://www.cannabiscoalition.org.htm
10,000 on the march, 30,000 at the festival; no police prolems.
Los Angeles: Sister Somayah 323-232-0935
http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah/events.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sister-somayah 175 participants, S.
Central.
Madison: Ben Masel <bmasel@...> weedstock.com 40 to 120
participants.
Manchester: Cannabis Coalition (Manchester), 57 Church Street,
Smithfield Buildings, Manchester, M4. Tel: 0161 834 1130. email:
Gingrach@... 600 marchers in '02.
Melbourne: Kevin Aplin FL CAN (321)-726-6656. Jodi James -
Coalition Advocating Medical Marijuana 321-253-3673. 200 in
parade, total media coverage; one obstruction of justice citation for
filming a cop ticketing some one for an open container.
Mexico City: +5300 5774 email: helmcke@... or
volgn@... or"Tato" foigras2002@...
"Camello" cosmocamello@...
"Asoc. Mexicana de Estudios Sobre el Cannabis"
<amecamexico@...> Leopoldo Rivera
Rivera/AsociaciÛn Mexicana de Estudios sobre el Cannabis,
Amapola # 35, col. Jardines del Molinito, Naucalpan, Estado
de
MÈxico. CP. 53530 MEXICO or Adolfo Prieto 1003, Col. del
Valle,
C.P. 03100, Mexico, D.F. or Samuel Martínez Ramírez
Av. Azcapotzalco #193-4 Col. Clavería Mexico D.F.
www.vivecondrogas.com, www.amecamexico.org, www.hemp.com.mx
Almost 300 people in '02.
Miami: Glenn Allen, 42c s.e.12th st. Dania, Fl 33004, 954-929-7025 aka
"Nelg Nella" <spacehippie@...> A smoke
out/drum circle in Peacock Park with lots of good bud.
Milwaukee: "Dominic Salmaan"
<cannabisliberation@...>
414-469-0899. 1525 E. Royall (Apt # 14), Milw., WI 563202. Over
100 people marched for 3 1/2 hrs. in '02. No police problems.
Minneapolis: Grassroots Party or Chris Wright
<TCW@...> 612-522-5374. 400 folks, no arrests
in '02.
Missoula: Angela Goodhope <sisterearth420@...> (406)
829-1703 Approx. 420 participants in '02.
Montpelier: Rama Schneider <2001@...> (802)
433-5441
address: 1614 Gilbert Road, Williamstown, VT 05679
http://www.ramabahama.net Several people handed out literature in
'02.
Montreal: Marc-Boris St-Maurice <blocpot@...>
(514)528.1768 3,000 marched 4 1/2 miles; no cops in '02.
Moscow: http://www.cures.by.ru d-form@...
Nashville: "Howie & Marivuana Leinoff"
<torml@...> <mailto:marivuana@...>or
marivuana@... (615)ACT-HIGH.
<http://www.marivuana.com>http://www.marivuana.com <>http://www.punkenstein.com 150 marchers, no arrests;
first tv coverage in '02.
Norfolk:
Newark: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...>
Delaware Cannabis Society c/o Richard J.
Schimelfenig, 3504 Winterhaven Drive, Newark, DE 19702, (302)
456-9402
New Orleans : Daisy 504-957-HERB hemp.rox.com
email:<NewOrleansMarch@...>
New Paltz: newpaltznorml@... NORML / SSDP PO Box 775, New
Paltz, NY 12561 500 marchers, well over 2,000 at concert in
'02.
New York City: Dana 212-677-7180 <dana@...> 7,000
participants in '02. 148 arrests.
Nimbin: Max Stone of the Australian Cannabis Law Reform
Movement" aclrm@... ph: 61 0266 891842
http://www.nimbinaustralia.com
http://www.bigbongburgerbar.com/webshow/ 24,000 participants in '02.
No arrests.
Normal: Nearly 1,000 participants in '02. Zach Thomas and
Miriam Sterlin, Mobilizing Activists and Students for Hemp
(MASH) Phone # :
309-275-6112/309-2756110 http://www.mashaction.org e-mail:
mash@...
Nuernberg: Emanuel Kotzian phone: 0049-(0) 172- 818 217 8
agentur sowjet - info@... - 450 people marched in the rain
in '02.
Oberlin: Patty Hallman <sbysc@...> (440)774-4544)
c/o
Stitch by Stitch & Curiousities, 31 South Main Street,
Oberlin,
OH 44074
Omaha: Paul Tripp, paultrip@..., (402)598-6180 12216 Poppleton
Plz. #238, Omaha, NE, 68144 Over 30 participants in
'02.
Orlando: Kacie Grange Hiphiplady32@... (407)895-3492
Oslo: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Torkel Bj¯rnson,
NORMAL,
Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0158 Oslo, Norway 3000+ participants. No
arrests.
Ottawa: "deadmanseedco" <deadmanseedco@...>
613-749-3014
Don Appleby or Rick Reimer at 613-756-2961 or Rob Brown at
613-756-5892 Crowds in the hundreds, almost no arrests.
Paducah: Paula (270)362-9849 <pioneer@...>, Cher
Ford-McCullough <bitchcrafts@...> 65 Cabin
Lane,
Gilbertsvile, Ky. 42044 or Brian McCullough
< bpmc@...> (270) 362-8186 50 marchers, 90 at rally,
one undercover in '02.
Paradise: Virgil Hales 530-877-5814
Paris: FARId GHEHIOUECHE 06 148 156 79
farid@... or CAM-RD 9, passage Dagorno 75020 PARIS
Tel : 00 33 (1) 40 09 69 75 Fax : 00 33 (1) 44 93 93 57
Like in 2001 and 2002, for MMM 2003 there will be rallies around
France (Montpellier, Lyon, Rennes, Marseille, Lille, Annecy,...) and
in Paris, the nation wide gathering in Bastille place 3:00 PM.
Parkersburg: "Cindy Wimer" <indianbud@...>
"Mountaineers for Medical Marijuana" 304-428-1726
Patterson: David Germolus 209-892-6640
angelwater260@... 420 hoffman ct., Patterson,
california
Philadelphia: <phillyweed420@...> or "chuck
palmer"
<chuckp@...> 610-279-6358 100 participants,
no arrests in '02.
Phoenix: donovan criss doncriss@... 602-486-6145 1635 w.
grovers av. phoenix,az 85023 or rex 602-618-4521 2222 w beardsly rd
#1119 phoenix,az 85027
Pilsen: http://www.exist.cz "pavla kozakova"
<exist@...>
200 people and one sound system in central park in '02. No
arrests.
Pittsburg:
Pordenone: Anna Cavezzali & Ivan Romano
<lallice@...>, Via Firenze 5, 33080 Porcia, PN,
Italy
++3282488420 ++43428098
Portland: (503) 239-6110 MMM 2002 Committee c/o Oregon NORML
(OrNORML) http://www.ornorml.org PO Box 86443, Portland, OR
97286 Madeline Martinez yerbanena@... or Steven M.
Cooper Volunteer Coordinator ornorml.volunteer@... Grew
from 200 people, no arrests.
Prague: Michael "xChaos" Polak <xchaos@...>
Tel: +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33358050 http://www.legalizace.cz
1-2,000 participants in '02, with hundreds more in nearby park. No
marijuana related arrests in Prague (police just arrested offender,
who broke police car window, but this was after MMM officially
ended).
Providence: Tom <psilocyberspore@...> (401) 737-7057
http://members.cox.net/psilocyberspore Just 6 people in '02.
Raleigh-Durham: Bryan T. Moore <btm42@...> 614
Carolina
Ave. Raleigh, NC 27606-1606 (919) 816-0609 or "Jeff
Badalucco"
<nc_ca@...> (919)834-2816 238 Pecan St., Raleigh,
NC
27603 200 souls braved pouring rain in '02. Capitol cops
well-behaved, but city cops tried to intimidate.
Rapid City: Bob Newland <newland@...>
877-687-5297,
605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/ 300 marchers in
'02.
Reno: Michelle 775-287-1594
Richmond: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer@...>
(804)
355-7612, or campus libs at <Huclberie1@....> About 100
attendees; march was 4 miles.
Rio de Janeiro: +55 - 21 - 9885 9162 mmmbr2002@... or
"Luiz Paulo" <lpgb@...> 500 participants in
'02.
Rome: "Segreteria Forte Prenestino"
<segreteria@...> or Michela Gesualdo
<mgesuald@ilmanifesto> 10-15,000 participants in '02.
Rosario: +54 - 341-4201291 or +54 - 341- 4642699 E-mail:
raddud@... Corrientes 1307, 2000 - Rosario- ARGENTINA Nearly
400 participants in '02.
Salem: 503.363-4588 Medical Cannabis Resource Center, 1695
Fairgrounds Rd.,Salem, Oregon 97303
<mailto:MercyCenter@...>MercyCenter@...
March and Rally plans TBA-- probably high noon around state capital
building
Salt Lake City: Dr. Ken Larsen (801) 533-8658
<kencan@...> 856
E. 100th St. South (#2), Salt Lake City, UT 84102 or Andy
Morrill (801)334-8122 <rambis4@...>
http://www.thc2002.org
http://www.personalchoice.org A. Reed Morrill, 1663
Historic
25th Street,Ogden, Utah 84401 300 noisy marchers, no
arrests.
San Diego: San Diego A.C.T. (Association for Cannabis
Therapeutics) c/o T.Villodas,901"F"street#413,San
Diego,
Ca.92101 email: Ed zepplin <edzepp@...> or Donna
619-302
3041 or 619-223-1050 (land line) 619-302-3041 (mobile)
http://www.cannabisfreedom.org Approximately 50-75
attendees.
NO POLICE! NO PROBLEMS!
San Francisco: Hemp Evolution/Clark Sullivan "freeman sullivan"
<feemansulllivan@...> or c.libertine@... or LAMPS
415-487-0561 4,000 participants in '02, no arrests.
Santa Clara: "Lisa"
<angelisa51@...>
San Marcos: Joe Ptak: 512.754.0264 Email:
earthfirstswt@... Postal: 213 Ramsay St.; #107, San
Marcos, TX; 78666
Santa Cruz: DdC <dendecannabist@...> or Jason
Brodsky
<theherbalist@...> or Bryan Gilstein
<shelbyrose7@...> (831-502-3865) Bryan Gilstein, UCSC,
600
Kresge Ct, Santa Cruz CA 95064 discussion list:
SCMJMarch@... 400 participants, no arrests.
Sao Paulo: Victor maolvni@... 30620225 rua tirica 345
Cabeca: podiscreuza@... : 35678903: rua japao 876
maolvni@... About 600 people .. There was no use and no
possession of marijuana so the cops couldn´t do anything.
Seminole: semptest5@...
"http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/fl3touring/stpete.html"
Sioux City: clint boatman <clint815@...>
5305 Stone Ave, Sioux City, Ia 51106
Sioux Falls: Bob Newland <newland@...>
877-687-5297,
605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/
Sofia: Chris Pantchev Xpu100 <hri100@...>
Soltau: Sven <vandreike@...>, 05191-975296
50 people, one police activity.
Springfield: Joe Setzer (417) 877-6832
<theosopher420@...>137 Hackberry Lane, Seymour, MO
65746
St. Louis: 314-567-8522 <gstlnorml@...> or St. Louis Area
NORML , PO Box 220243,
St. Louis, MO 63122. http://www.mo-norml.org 600
marched to the Arch for cannabis reform.
Stuart: "chad cooke" <chadcooke50@...>
chad cooke 561-213-7307 719-a northview drive,
jupiter,florida. 33458
Thunder Bay: Doug Thompson <docclone@...> 807-475-7436
75 participants, no cops, no media.
Tampa: Anthony154154@... Anthony Lorenzo 1-888-210-0425 toll free
pager Over 100 participants in '02.
Tel Aviv: Boaz Wachtel -- wachtel@... Tel:972-54-573679
http://www.ale-yarok.org.il PO Box 2983, Even Yehuda, 40500
Israel -- 4,000 participants in '02.
Tokyo: Takao Bakuya (Cannabist) info@... +81-3-3706-6885
http://www.cannabist.org 800 participants in '02.
Toronto: Larry Duprey (416)540-7829 fax(416)242-2635 or Toronto Area
Association / Marijuana Party of Canada, 132 Dundas St. East,
Toronto,On M5B 1E2 (416)367-3459 3-6,000 participants in
'02
<http://www.canadiancannabisawards.ca>www.canadiancannabisawards.ca
<http://www.cannabisclub.ca>www.cannabisclub.ca
Traverse City: Melody Karr <fiddlefoot420@...>
(231)885-2993 PO Box 524 Mesick, MI 49668. or 10954 Birch
Road
Mesick MI 49668. 70 marchers, hundreds of spectators in
'02.
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/traversecity.htm
Trondheim: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Line Arstad,
NORMAL,
Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0355 Oslo, Norway 200 participants in '02.
Tucson: mary mackenzie <mmackenzie2@...> (520)323-2947
http://www.hometown.aol.com/marcher420/myhomepage/pepe.html or 3400
east speedway, #118, tucson, arizona 85716 Over 200 participants in
'02.
Turku: Vihreet Pantterit http://www.vihreetpantterit.org
info@... 300 participants in '02. 10
counter-demonstrators.
Ukiah: Verge Belanger "v belanger"
<contactverge@...>
Tommy Gunn, 528 North State St. #1, Ukiah, Ca. 95482 300
participants in '02.
Upper Lake, Ca.: Linda & Eddy Lepp"linda senti"
<lisenti@...> 707-275-8879 Signed up 131 new patients
in '02.
Vancouver: David Malmo-Levine, <dagreenmachine@...>
BC
Marijuana Party Bookstore and Internet Broadcasting Center,
307
West Hastings Tel. 604 682-1172 http://www.cannabisculture.com
2,000 marchers in '02.
Vermilion: Sonny Morris 967-6069 sonny44089@... 309
devonshire More than 100 people partied in the park, no problems in
'02.
Vienna: 5. Hanffeuer, Bushdoctor <martin@...>
http://www.bushdoctor.at Phone: +43 (01) 524 04 40, Fax:
+43
(01) 524 04 24, Kirchengasse 19, A-1070, Vienna,
Austria"
Walton: Dave Baughman 620-837-4496
<Davyblues1@...>
http://www.kan-sativa.com 124 S. Walton Ave., Walton,
Kansas
67151 Around 50 participants in '02.
Warszawa, mazowsze: Adam Wojtasiewicz aw@...
+48503692715 ul. Mickiewicza 72/15 01-650 Warszawa Poland
Washington, D.C.:Toni Keane <taporter84@...>
http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html
Wellington Ben Knight <Legalise@...> NORML NZ ,
PO
Box 27-315, Wellington +64 25 377509
http://www.norml.org.nz
Wichita: Debby Moore, CEOHemp Industries of Kansas 2742 E. 2nd
Wichita, Kansas, 67214 (316) 681 1743 debby@...
Website: http://www.hempforus.com Last year about thrity people
met and marched through downtown Wichita. I will plan a cookout with
speakers, but
will certainly discourage any smoking of the herb cannabis.
Winnepeg: Chris Buors, <chris_buors@...> mail to 430
Winterton ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2K 1K4 500 rallied at
the Parliament Bldg in '02.
Winston-Salem: Queen Selassie (336) 661-0684 4469 Indiana Ave,
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27105 25 people stood under a pavilion in the
rain.
Worcester: C.J. & Judi Bunn, 413-245-3675 #9 Maybrook Rd,
Holland, MA 01521 More than 100 people, no problems, in '02.
Zurich: Swiss Hanf Koordination Sekretariat + 41-31-398-144
<infor@...> Barbecue-Party in the
Culture Centre in Seebach/Zurich
CHanf++ GmbH, Zweierstrasse 124, CH-8003 Zürich
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We are still taking submissions for our final design for next
year's poster--and we are establishing a VIRTUAL POSTER GALLERY to
give every city who can print locally a choice.
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_____________________________________________________________
If you want to be moved above this line and listed for next year,
just let us know.
If you want to help bring them up to critical mass, just contact
them.
***!!!MMM2002 Cities Not Yet Confirmed for Global Cannabis March
2003!!!***
Anchorage: Scot Dunnachie 907-278-4367
<freehempinak@...>
2603 Spenard Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503
http://www.freehempinak.org
Ashland: "Amber Leiter"
<amleiter@...>
419-289-8810 , Amber Leiter, 165 Ronald Ave. Apt. I,
Ashland,
Ohio 419-207-8834
Augusta: Roger Leisner/Radio Free Maine.
<rleisner04330@...> http://www.radiofreemaine.com
Bologna: mar. million march / association livello 57 ++39
051-271066<m4s@...> Via Muggia #9, 40100
Bologna
http://www.radiocentrale.it or http://www.radiogap.net
Calgary: Ken Kirk e-mail: marijuanaparty.ofalberta@...
780-430-8440
Carbondale: Liz Strebe 618-351-0397 202 E. College (Apt 1),
Carbondale, IL 62901
Charleston: Amanda Kushner Amanda2bad@...
304-746-0777 969 Jarrell Dr., Charleston, wv 25312 Rally
Concert
Chesapeake: Barbra 373-9027 bkquamen@... Chesapeake,
Virginia
Dallas: Fletch 214-566-2460 <phletch41@...> 6008
E.
Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Tx. 75206 60 or so marchers in '02.
Dauphin: Shroom menace217@... Dauphin, Manitoba Smoke-in,
followed by walk to support legalization
Duisburg: Dirk &Co <cafe-zentral@...>
Dunedin: Duncan Eddy <duncaneddy@...> NORML NZ,
phone:
027 4719 139 200 tokers on the Octagon in '02.
Eaton: Andy Fudge fudgeie@... 210 eaton lewisburg rd apt#61 Rally
12 noon -- lots of kick ass specialties
Edmonton, Alberta: Ken Kirk e-mail:
marijuanaparty.ofalberta@... 780-430-8440 or "Ross
Z"
<ganja_23@...>
Ellwangen: Sven Semmler <sven@...>
Fairbanks, Alaska: Frank Turney 907-452-3777 or Chuck Rollins
Jr. <chuck@...>
Frankenthal: helmut holtzheimer <movemus@...>
Freiburg: <info@...>,
http://www.drogenpolitik.org
Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V. Info stall from
11:00h-17:00h.
corner Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse - Schiffstrasse
Fresno: Glass Packers <glasspackers@...> Eric Burns
Hamilton: Contact aksh1@... 50 participants, 4 questioned
and released without charges.
Homer, Alaska - contact Julie Cesarini, P.O. Box 812, Homer AK
99603, 907 235-6040.
Jacksonville: James Johnson (904)245-2876
chefboyrdee69@... 659 Apeberry Lane,
Jacksonville, Florida
Johannesburg: Gordon Maene <Gordon@...> work: (
011)805 6763 cell phone: 082 552 6393
Juneau: contact Brad Parfitt latebrad@...
Kelowna, B.C.: Teresa Taylor, CCC <luna@...>
taylor1.virtualave.net (250) 442-2741 or (250) 442-5166 Fax
(250) 442-5167 or Amanda/hempshop (250)770-8171
Kailua-Kona: Gretel Zapata of Free Mary Jane
<freemaryjanehawaii@...> Tel# 808.328.9251
voice#
808.331.5418 81-1085c Capt. Cook RD Capt. Cook HI 96726 or
PO
box 746 Honaunau HI
Krakow: Marek Warmuz (+48)501-468-018 "quepassa"
<quepassa@...>
Ladysmith: Terry & Wendy, (250)-245-3595,
<tandwp1@...>
Las Vegas: Ray Facundo <raybones80@...>, 1750 Santa
Margarita, Apt 122, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702)-222-3560
Leadville: Ken Cary (719-486-2215. 114 W 6th # 9, Leadville, CO
80461
Lille: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93
93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79
Liverpool: Will Graham <willg@...> tel (inc.
international code): 0044 151 727 1458
Luxemburg (LU) <info@...>, Tel: 00352 26 53 08
95,
http://www.act4cannabis.lu/ They are planning a press
conference
and handing out leaflets. Mailing address:LIFE, 53, Val des
Aulnes, L-3811 Schifflange
Lyon: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93
93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79 Location: 14h Croix
Rousse Place
Marburg: Gr¸ne Hilfe Hessen, c/o Jo, Tel/Fax: 06631/801512
Location: Cafe Am Gr¸n 70 guests attended.
Marseilles: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44
93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79
Memphis: Lanie 731-855-7527
Montpellier at Le Bikini Location: 16h Comedie Place
Munich: mmm-muenchen@...
Nantes: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93
93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79
Napa: Bruce Trask 707-253-9295 1020 Soscol Ferry Rd, Napa, CA
94558
New Haven: Lucas Davenport <hardreboot@...>
203-752-2462
Palm Springs: Lanny Swerdlow mappnow@... or
<marijuanamarch@...> pager: 760-836-8166; ph:
760-799-2055.
Recklinghausen: Jossi <janjos@...>
Regina: Daniel Johnson <amduscias@...>
normlsask.cjb.net/
Rennes at l'Ubu. Jean Charles PETITJEAN, BARACANNA (COCAR), 105,
rue St HÈlier, 35000 Rennes. TÈl : 33 (0)2 23 35 15 69 Fax :
33
(0)2 23 35 01 33 E-Mail : baracanna@... SIRET :
432
785 822 00029 APE : 913 E ouvert mercredi de 14h30 ý
19h30
jeudi, vendredi et samedi de 10h ý 20h They will offer
hemp
seeds to people at a rally in front of the mayor's house.
San Juan: Christian Fernandez <c_fernh@...> Box
839
Gurabo, PR 00778
San Luis Obispo: "Rusty Stuart" <nzane@...> 1722
Nacimiento
Lake Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446 805-237-7303 or 805-237-7306
And
Jo-D: 805.937.0034
Saskatoon: Jeremiah Whipp (306)230-0951 -- 1800 Main St
(Apt
42), Saskatoon, Sask. S7H4B3.
Stafford: Simon wrxmanuk@... +447816485762 Concert @
stafford town square
Stockton: mikaela/free the weed 912-884-6144
veganarchy16@... veganarchy16@...
http://www.hipforums.com 322 lake dr, stockton, california
Stuttgart: <info@...>,
http://www.drogenpolitik.org Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V.
Info
stall from 11:00h-17:00h. corner K–nigstrasse /
B¸chsenstrasse
Tallahassee: (850)321-8311 ask for Matt
<fsunorml@...>
Ricky Bradford FSU NORML c/o Oglesby, Union Student
Activities
Office, FL 32306
Taos: Danielle Romero (505)770-5260 or Joanne Foreman
<jofo@...> 505-751-1102
Vega Alta: jose a hernandez <josefaruk1@...> location
Park
Recreativo. Que Viva La Musica Coqui Coqui.
Vilnius: "Andrius Brazas"
<brazhas@...>
http://www.hardcore 370 98 84714
Wolfenbuttel: <solid-wf@...> Info booth by ['solid]
popular.
Yellow Springs: Devon Ronaldson <soulrebel@...> 937
769
1764 c/o Student mailr oom, 795 livermore st., yellow springs
OH
45387
Zagreb: "Sergio Stifanic" <fine_time909@...>
GALOVICEVA
10, 10000 ZAGREB Phone: ++385 1
2330667
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From: eco man <tents444@...>
Subject: Please subscribe to new MMM email list. Public archive
still
open.
Please subscribe to new MMM email list. Public archive still
open.
The public MMM email list at Yahoo Groups now requires people to
subscribe
in order to post messages to the list and the public archive. For
a few
weeks I set it up so that non-members could also send in email
messages to
the list. That was to help people send in MMM rally reports. It
worked.
The archive also got some spam too. That was deleted. But people
should
keep sending in MMM-related stuff. Just subscribe first.
The MMM message archive itself is still public and accessible to
anybody:
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Over 200
cities so far ... and counting!!! Other multi-city cannabis and
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event info,
ideas, MMM 2002 rally reports, photo attachments, links, HTML web
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