restore Wed, 23 Jun 1999 Volume 1 : Number 179 In this issue: OCTA update, 6/21/99 CRRH OR supporter letter URGENT: House Forfeiture Vote TOMORROW (Wednesday, 6/23) An interesting court case from the 60's My response to John Mica's article in Roll Call SANCTUARY Eric Sterling remark. Rabid GOP Drug War. Geraldo show. Congressional drug liars Re: SANCTUARY Re: CA: JUDGE: ACTIVIST CAN'T PROMOTE POT Sent re: HR1658 - Stop Bandits With Badges IOM IRRELEVANT Fwd: [smashthestate] What If its Legalized Drugs are already "legal products" IS THIS BEHAVIOR NECESSARY? The Kubby Files: v3.0 Now Online Hemp Documentary "Emperor of Hemp" Released on Video High Times: Aaron Anderson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:45:32 -0700 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: OCTA update, 6/21/99 Message-ID: <4.1.19990622074334.038f3be0@mail.olywa.net> CAMPAIGN FOR THE RESTORATION AND REGULATION OF HEMP PETITION ACTIVITY REPORT OR Petition I.D.# : 42 ** As of: 06/21/99 ** Petition : OCTA2k Total Signatures To Date = 7805 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:40:30 -0700 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: CRRH OR supporter letter Message-ID: <4.1.19990622163153.03938b00@mail.olywa.net> This letter is being sent out to CRRH's Oregon supporters. Dear Supporters, The Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH) is circulating the enclosed petition, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA). Thank you for your interest in our work. The OCTA initiative was approved to begin gathering signatures in April 1999 and we are off to a good start. As of June 21st, CRRH has 7,805 signatures on this petition turned in to our Portland office. We need 66,748 registered Oregon voters' signatures by July 2000 to qualify for a vote. The OCTA will, upon passage by voters, do the following: =B7 Regulate the sale of cannabis to adults. =B7 Make untaxed cannabis available through pharmacies. =B7 Allow Oregon farmers to grow industrial hemp. =B7 Protect our kids. We sincerely believe that the OCTA initiative is the "protect our kids petition" and will reduce the availability of marijuana to those under 21 through careful regulation. Ask any high school student which is easier to get, marijuana or alcohol and they will tell you cannabis is easier to get, since they can purchase it from their classmates. The OCTA will take the cannabis market out of the hands of the kids and substance abusers who control it today and put it in regulated establishments where the age limit of 21 and over will be strictly enforced. We believe that focusing on how OCTA will protect kids is a vital strategy to win. We need your help to get the OCTA on Oregon's November 7, 2000 ballot. OCTA will permit state-licensed cultivation of cannabis for sale to adults only, allow cultivation by adults for personal use, allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, and license the sale of marijuana to adults and for medical purposes. Please circulate the enclosed petitions among your voting friends and associates. Remember to read the instructions printed on the back of each signature sheet. ONLY registered voters in Oregon may sign this petition. Please remember to write the signers' county name in the upper right hand corner of each petition, that people from different counties must sign different petition sheets and that you must fill in the "circulator's statement" on the bottom of each petition sheet. Since we are working for early qualification of the OCTA, please return the signed petitions to us right away. Thank you. Many ask how the OCTA can go into effect given the obvious conflict with federal laws. While the federal government may try to challenge the OCTA, it is written specifically to be upheld in federal court. The OCTA is based upon international treaties, historical and scientific facts and the Constitution. The OCTA's chief petitioners are Dr. Phillip Leveque, Paul Loney and D. Paul Stanford.=20 =B7 Dr. Leveque is a retired professor of pharmacology and toxicology and is currently a state lobbyist in Salem for AARP, (American Association of Retired Persons). Dr. Leveque has taught at Georgetown University, OHSU (back when it was U. of O. Medical School), and several other medical schools.=20 =B7 Paul Loney is a lawyer in Portland with the Belmont Law Center. Mr. Lone= y is also vice president of Portland's Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, and president of the Oregon Wildlife Federation.=20 =B7 D. Paul Stanford is the executive director of CRRH and the president and founder of the first company to import, market or manufacture hemp paper in North America. CRRH has a weekly TV show called Cannabis Common Sense. It is shown in Portland on channel 11 at 10:30 P.M. each Sunday. CRRH produces a newspaper, Hemp News. Please visit our renowned web site, , which includes an extensive archive of videos for free viewing on demand and a text archive of news stories about cannabis and hemp dating back to 1992. Our web site has won most of the major awards for web site design, including "What's Cool" from Netscape and is linked from "Web Site of the Week" by the prestigious British Medical Journal. The OCTA has been endorsed by the American Anti-prohibition League, the Pacific Green Party and the Libertarian Party of Oregon. We ask for your support. Like all grass roots political organizations, we need donations of both time and money from our supporters to make things happen. If you would like to volunteer your time, please contact us. We urge you to donate to CRRH by sending a check, money order, Mastercard or Visa donation. Oregon state income tax credits 100 percent of donations to initiative committees like CRRH, up to $50 per person or $100 for married couples filing jointly. You may think of that first $50 you donate as a loan that the state will repay when you file your state income tax next year. Please make a donation to CRRH. Together we will restore hemp, protect kids and help ensure freedom. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Dr. Phillip E. Leveque Paul Loney D. Paul Stanford P.S. Please use the enclosed envelope to send a donation or signed petitions back to us. Please put a stamp on the business reply envelope to save us the cost of first class postage plus an extra 8 cent postal handling fee. You could also call us at 503-235-4606 with a Visa or Mastercard donation. Thanks again! We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to= =20 prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp!= =20 *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp*=20 CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286=20 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 04:31:35 +0000 From: DRCNet To: drc-natl@drcnet.org Subject: URGENT: House Forfeiture Vote TOMORROW (Wednesday, 6/23) Message-ID: <4.1.19990622042455.00a09e20@drcnet.org> ALERT: House Forfeiture Vote This Wednesday, June 23 -------- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE -------- (To sign off this list, mailto:listproc@drcnet.org with the line "signoff drc-natl" in the body of the message, or mailto:kfish@drcnet.org for assistance. To subscribe to this list, visit .) VISIT: http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ Sources have informed us that H.R. 1658, an extraordinarily important bill to reform civil asset forfeiture and protect the rights of the innocent and the accused, passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 27-3 and is scheduled to go to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 23, tomorrow! Under current law, the government can seize your home, car, or bank accounts, on the basis of testimony by paid, confidential informants, and never even have to charge you with a crime or prove your guilt to a judge or jury! Please take two minutes to visit , use it to send an e-mail or fax to Congress if you haven't already, and most important, write down your Rep's phone number and follow-up with a phone call to support H.R. 1658! Call your Senators too and urge them to support companion legislation in the Senate. Then, forward this alert to your friends and appropriate mailing lists and forums, or use the "tell-a- friend" feature on the web site. The federal Departments of Justice and the Treasury will be lobbying hard to defeat or dilute H.R. 1658, so your letters and calls are needed now! A column in the July 5 issue of The Nation describes the corrupt and dangerous forfeiture tactics frequently used by police and prosecutors in the drug war: In 1985, members of a Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) team of federal, state and local law enforcement suddenly started firing bullets at the cabin of John Dalton, an auto mechanic in Mendocino County, and proceeded to beat him senseless, but found no evidence of marijuana cultivation. This began a more than a decade-long attempt by the DEA to find evidence against Dalton, particularly by an agent having an affair with his wife, who threatened her with money-laundering charges whenever she refused to cooperate with his investigation. In 1994, having found no evidence against Dalton, the DEA recruited two "snitches," one of whom had prior convictions for perjury and fraud, to make statements against Dalton, on the basis of which they seized all of his property. (The word of a paid, confidential informant is enough under current forfeiture law.) Two years later, the federal government arrested Dalton, on the basis of testimony by the operator of a speed lab who was facing a life term but who was rewarded for his testimony with a ten-year sentence. Dalton has been in prison for nearly two years, awaiting trial. Anderson Valley Advertiser reporter Mark Heimann wrote of the case: "This is standard operating procedure for federal narcs these days: First initiate forfeiture action and take every single possession which could be sold to finance an attorney. Then, once the victim is destitute, hit him with criminal charges so he's forced to take an overworked and underpaid public defender who can be counted on to push his client into a plea bargain." So, please take two minutes right now to help stop the governmental epidemic of forfeiture abuse! Visit http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ now to lobby Congress in support of H.R. 1658, and then spread the word! For further information: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (national membership organization) http://www.fear.org Forfeiture Victim Cases, from the ACLU (unbelievable stuff) http://www.aclu.org/congress/l051498.html Drug Policy Foundation forfeiture project, including a Policy Briefing released last month, and an analysis of H.R. 1658 with talking points http://www.dpf.org/html/forfeiture.html National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers alert, with link to victim cases http://209.70.38.3/public.nsf/Alerts/99LegAlert04 ----------------------------------------------------------- This message brought to you by the Drug Reform Coordination Network's rapid-response-team e-mail list. If you are not already subscribed to DRCNet, please visit our "quick sign- up" form at . Help support DRCNet by making a donation or participating in the iGive online fundraising program. To pledge or give by credit card use our secure registration form at . To designate DRCNet as your eyegive recipient non-profit (absolutely free), visit , or go visit their main page at http://www.igive.com if you are already signed up to raise money for DRCNet ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:00:58 -0400 From: "SageGirl" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: An interesting court case from the 60's Message-ID: <199906220500.BAA15115@musone.chek.com> HIGH ALL: I found this tidbit while doing research for my own court case regarding a noise violation for protesting. This particular case is about warrantless searches. http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=2763927327+13+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve Check it out. Your friend and compatriot, Diane R. Fornbacher THE HONEYBUD WEEDWHACKER http://members.tripod.com/~cannabsihempsativa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:03:35 -0400 From: cowboy@jug-or-not.com To: dpffl@drugsense.org Cc: restore@crrh.org, cp@telelists.com Subject: My response to John Mica's article in Roll Call Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990622030332.03197e54@jug-or-not.com> Dear RollCall: I read with interest and reserve the article by John Mica chairman of the Government Reform subcommittee on criminal justice, drug policy and human resources. Afterwords, I felt shocked that Mr. Mica, who holds such a prominent position as a policy maker, could be so lacking for a complete understanding about the issues with which he is trusted to resolve. We do agree on one aspect about marijuana: Further research is a waste of taxpayer money. Over ten thousand studies have been conducted on marijuana, only very few claiming negative effects from its use, most of those later proven to be false or scientifically "bogus". After that, Mr. Mica is utterly wrong. In contrast to the Institute of Medicine report about the medicinal utility of marijuana released earlier this year, A 1991 study released by the Department of Health and Human Services, A 1988 ruling by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young, A 1982 National Academy of Sciences report, A 1977 American Medical Association study, and Nixon's own Schaffer Commission findings, Mr Mica holds that smoked marijuana does "nothing for pain", "causes brain damage", and "undercuts cancer treatment". Instead, choosing to use a littany of biased, and already debunked "gutter" science studies, whose main goals were to make sure the lies started in the sensational headlines of the 1930's Hearst Newspapers and movies like "Reefer Madness" remain a viable excuse to justify the jailing of 750,000 americans and the wasting of 18 Billion dollars a year for the use of a plant provided by God himself. Mr. Mica also seems to lack the knowledge that smoking marijuana, although not the best method of ingestion, is not the only alternative. Marijuana can be used in vaporizer machines, which heat the volitile oils and vaporize them without burning which eliminates any harmful effect on the lungs. Cannabis can also be eaten, which again, avoids any ill for the respiratory system. I also find it amazing that Mr. Mica has such a great understanding of the medical benefits of dangerous artificial pharmacueticals such as percodin and ibuprofen. How many years of practicing medicine did he say he had? Mr Mica also refers to the "gateway theory", in which he talks about marijuana use leading to the government giving away drugs, our children using pcp and methamphetamine and similar drugs. The gateway theory was just ruled out as anything but a myth in the Institute of Medicine report. As far as our government giving out narcotics, when was the last time he went to a VA hospital? Mr Mica also claims that marijuana use diminishes the free will of the person. I would contend that legislating morality, especially Mr. Mica's brand, is a much larger and devastating blow to free will than the use of marijuana. Blaming society's problems on a plant is far easier than actually dealing with real social problems in a progressive and fresh approach. That would require indepth research, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Which, demonstrated by his article based entirely upon fictional accounts, Mr. Mica seems to lack. Scott Raymond Bledsoe President, Coalition Advocating Medical Marijuana 141 Old Orange Park rd. #177 Orange Park, FL 32073 904-278-0993 >Newshawk: Frank S. World >Pubdate: 21 June 1999 >Source: Roll Call (DC) >Copyright: 1999 Roll Call Inc. >Contact: mws@rollcall.com >Website: http://www.rollcall.com/ >Author: Rep. John L. Mica >Note: Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) is chairman of the Government Reform >subcommittee on criminal justice, drug policy and human resources. > >Policy Briefing: Crime & Public Policy > >Should The Federal Government Study The Effects Of Medical Marijuana? > >DO NOT WASTE TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS > >Spending more hard-earned, taxpayer dollars on additional study of the >legalization of marijuana, or any other illegal narcotic, strikes me as an >unconscionable waste of taxpayer dollars. This ploy has been used by the >pro-legalization lobby to create a detour from the drug war, and is another >liberal folly and morally indefensible idea. If this sounds harsh, let me >offer seven sound arguments to support this position. > >First, the hard science has already been done. Smoking marijuana has no >scientific benefit and only serious medical downsides. There are the >substantial, credible, mid-1990s studies that show smoked pot degrading and >destroying key brain functions, done by Dr. Peter Waser at the University of >Zurich; Dr. John Gately and his associates at the Brookhaven National >Laboratory; Dr. Roger Pertwee of the Institute of Medical Sciences at >Aberdeen; and Dr. Eliot Gardner of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in >New York. > >There is the excellent study by Dr. Loren Miller on the "acute effects on >human memory" of marijuana; the widely reported study on THC-induced >aggression by Dr. Klaus Miczek of Carnegie-Mellon University; and the study >by Dr. Edward Domino of the University of Michigan on the damage done to the >brain's "neocortex." > >There are voluminous studies, produced even in the past several years, >showing severe damage to male and female reproductive systems, such as Dr. >Herbert Schuel and his colleagues' study on "cannabinoid receptors in >sperm"; Dr. Arthur Zimmerman's study on effects on "spermatogenesis;" and >Dr. Jack Mendelson and his colleagues' study on "marijuana effects on >pituitary and gonadal hormones in women." > >There are additional studies confirming damage by marijuana smoking to the >immune system, undercutting any argument of marijuana for AIDS. Among these >studies are those done by Dr. Thomas Kline; Dr. Harris Rosenkrantz; Dr. Guy >Cabral; Dr. William and Sandra Bennett; Dr. Donal Kotlet; and Dr. Joseph >Timpone. > >There is also a plethora of hard science demonstrating that pot has minimal >benefit for pain; can undercut cancer treatment; can produce lung damage, >heart damage and birth defects; and offers little in the way of meaningful >pain relief. In short, pot has been studied more than any Schedule One >substance. > >Second, for those who are wedded to THC, there already exists a THC-based, >non-narcotic prescription medicine. If there are any non-narcotic benefits >from the THC in marijuana, they are available in tablet form. That >prescription medicine is marinol, which, while addictive and psychotropic, >evades the devastating side effects of smoked pot. While there are dozens of >pain relievers that work better than marinol, from percoset to ibuprofen, >those who want the satisfaction of saying they use THC can readily seek it >through a doctor. > >Third, the economics of marijuana legalization will not work for pot -- or >any other narcotic. > >The reasons are elementary. Start with price elasticity. A luxury is >something we do not need, and thus, as price increases, we choose to buy >less of it: cruises to the Bahamas, or fine wine. A necessity is something >we need, like food and gasoline. As prices rise, we still buy the needed >basics. > >The trick with narcotics is that they start out as a luxury -- with high >elasticity of demand; they quickly become a necessity, with a low elasticity >of demand. The result is a trap, one that kids and adults would both be >vulnerable to if the government began making drugs widely available. > >First-time use by choice would soon become a need leading to addiction, and >the economics of drug use would produce an ever-increasing block of sick, >depressed and addicted Americans. > >Fourth, drugs and crime are inherently linked. Drugs trigger aggressive and >irrational behaviors. For this reason, until the government gives away 100 >percent pure drugs for free to all who want them, there will always be a >black market for more pure drugs. There will also be drug-related physical >and property crime. > >Making drugs legal -- in any form -- may lower the number of acts considered >illegal, but it won't change much else. > >Fifth, sanctioning pot smoking for any purpose is a slippery slope. It opens >the door to wider use of the substance, and that fact is not missed by the >wealthy promoters of drug legalization. Viewing pot as medicine, not unlike >aspirin or Advil, lends itself too easily to the follow-on idea that it >should be available to all. This, of course, is the main hope of those who >champion pot use for select segments of society -- first you take the hill, >then you take the town. > >Reality is different, ask the 85 percent of Americans who worry about their >kids and drugs. The negative health impact of marijuana itself is just the >tip of the iceberg. Marijuana smoking is a swirling current above a more >dangerous precipice. It hooks the child, sets the bar low for obeying law >and swings wide the gate to a faster current. Not far down that current, >there is an undefined point of no return for many kids. > >Those swept into drug use through officially sanctioned pot, would be more >likely to crash over an edge -- with an overdose on heroin; cocaine; crack; >methamphetamine; ecstacy; PCP; GHB, known for its use as a data-rape drug; >and similar drugs. > >I have met with too many parents who have lost sons and daughters to heroin, >and confide that their children's drug use began with pot. No one can bring >those kids back. We know the risks that attend pot use, and where >encouraging such use can lead. > >Perhaps that is why we should ask: Why would anyone in his or her right mind >advocate legalization, or create any imprimatur of legitimacy for dope use >under any circumstances? > >The moral argument has other dimensions. If marijuana seldom kills by >overdose, it triggers attitude and personality changes, opening a different >gate. It legitimates use of drugs that -- while they may not kill -- do >maim, physically and emotionally. Pot use at an early age correlates to >greater likelihood of inhalant use that produces brain damage, as well as >abuse of stimulants, depressants, prescription medicines and other risky >behaviors. Should the government be in the business of studying how to >legitimize such a life-degrading substance? > >Sixth, drugs that change one's mental state -- even those that relieve pain >-- diminish the individual's free will. They create psychological and >physical dependencies. They take from the individual -- whether child or >adult -- the free will that animated one's first decision. > >Now, consider studying the idea of putting the government into the business >of how best to do that -- specifically, how to do it with currently illegal >narcotics. Doesn't venturing down this path sound a lot like entering George >Orwell's fictional account of where America might go? > >Seventh, drug use -- even for those who embrace it as the great escape from >living with this life's soul-enhancing struggles -- is not a victimless >crime. It is not a victimless act. It is an act that carries implications >for all those who know and love, are related to and interacting with the >user. I have sat with parents who are losing and who have lost those that >they gave their entire lives to raise. I have seen the data on drug-related >overdoses, suicides, murders, traffic fatalities and emergency-room >incidents. I have seen the precious bond between parent and child, siblings, >grandparents and grandchildren rent and torn by drug abuse. > >In my own district, a recent heroin overdose ended the life of a young man >with a lovely, happy, little 4-year-old boy. How do you explain to that >little boy, whose father started drug use lightly, that his life will never >be the same again? Or that some people think drug use should be studied and >promoted? > >We have conducted hearings on this topic. Conducting additional studies on >how to legalize any Schedule One illegal narcotic -- especially one that >leads to so much physical and emotional pain in the lives of the users and >those who love them -- is simply not necessary and not a prudent use of >taxpayer dollars. > >Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) is chairman of the Government Reform subcommittee >on criminal justice, drug policy and human resources. > > > >__________________________________________________________________________ >Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in >receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. >--- >MAP posted-by: Jo-D ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:36:31 -0700 From: "Jess Williams" To: "restore Hemp" Subject: SANCTUARY Message-ID: <01b701bebc79$a62bb6e0$7901410c@default> I want to talk about REAL Addiction I have to say one thing about the all consuming thirst for money and power exhibited by corporate america and their paid lackeys, our legislators: Watching a millionaire grasping for the billion is like watching an obese person stuff food in their mouths with both hands until they vomit. Watching the legislators fight each other over the power is like watching a sloppy drunk buying another bottle as he wipes the vomit from his chin. Watching someone feeding their addiction to power and money, always looking for the next fix, ready and willing to cause a great deal of pain to get their 'high' is a disgusting thing. It's hard to watch CSpan anymore or my local media spouting the thinly disguised lies, because everywhere I look are the really dangerous greed addicts. They are as out of control as the skankiest pockfaced heroin addict on the street. I don't know if any of them use illegal drugs or not, they don't have to take urine tests. But I know if you want to track one down, just follow the money. So, I just read an article talking about this very thing. [CIVIC LIFE, WITH SPIRIT FWD Los Angeles Times - Saturday, May 29, 1999] "This week," it gushes, "Vice President Al Gore joined the chorus of politicians, until now mostly Republican, calling for the government to work more closely with religious charities to deliver social services to the needy. It was the latest in a line of instances where the Clinton administration sought to encourage the cooperation of religion and government, and it is likely to ensure that the place of faith in American life will be part of the public policy debate of the next presidential campaign." End of quote. Reading this just makes my blood boil. WHY should these politicians have anything to do with independent charities or religious organizations? Because there's only a few more areas of our lives they haven't infiltrated? Something, food or supplies or homeless people who don't use their social security cards? What is it they are not in charge of that they want now? These are the things we organize on our own, the things we do because we care. These independent efforts to ease the pain the power addicts are magnifying are the only thing we really do for ourselves and each other anymore. If the government gets involved it will be red tape and budget cuts and all the wrong people will get the help because decisions from the heart won't be allowed. Uncle Sam will control this too by holding out a hand full of our dollars and threatening to take it away. Why? I don't understand why we're letting those terrible people in Washington get involved in more of our burdened and taxed little lives. What's the point? They have a track record; years of lies and deceit, waste in every field they penetrate, fraud and thievery. Management, bookkeeping, public relations, they are failures in everything. So they say separation of church and state, but you know Billie Graham and the rest of the white house crowd blurred that line long ago. Making federal laws about religion and schools, that wasn't separation. But now they want to meld the two. So after years of rejecting the principles of faith incorporated in the constitution, they want become part of love, hope, and charity? No. I think they want to own love hope and charity. Why let them get involved in more? Nothing they do in Washington is for our good, hasn't been for a long time. Can't you see that yet? Everything they do sucks our power away, or makes us fat and lazy, so we let them take whatever they want. Our kids will be next. I WANT TO KNOW WHY our churches and peacekeepers and media are abandoning the people. Don't even give me this for-my-own-good stuff. Don't tell me its for the children. I have NO faith left - not in the leaders and authorities nor their words. They've sold their soul for the next hit of their addiction. I want the leaders of the churches and centers, the reporters and teachers to explain why they would support this kind of leadership even to turning against their own people. We've got to stop giving everything away or at least be more selective in who we give it to. Watching people turn loose of precious freedom to the school yard bullies is a scary thing. Don't you know to them you are 'sheeple?' Don't let them take another thing. Don't give them our independent ministries set up by and for the people. Where will we find sanctuary? Kay Lee http://www.zyworld.com/kay~lee/home.htm STOP REPEAT OFFENDERS: Quit Reelecting Them! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 04:34:22 -0700 From: "T. Paine" To: restore@crrh.org, capcoverag@aol.com, submissions@cannabisnews.com Cc: Subject: Eric Sterling remark. Rabid GOP Drug War. Geraldo show. Message-ID: ____ In the Sunday, June 20, 1999 Geraldo Rivera show "Drug Bust" that showed the utter futility of the drug war, Eric Sterling (an anti-drug war activist) said: "No member of Congress is going to lose a vote because they're tough on drugs." I have been working to change that for awhile now. See thread below. This archived thread also has many people that some may recognize: Cliff Schaffer, Hidden voice, Jack, debbie, Pat (of Amendment to Decriminalize Marijuana), etc.. Vote Green, independent, Democrat, etc.. BUT NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN. They create, sponsor, and push through nearly all the bad drug war bills. Democrats follow their lead in order to cover their assed and not be called "soft on crime." So let's kill the beast by cutting off its head, the GOP. --- http://forums.al.com/forums/get/politics38/1085.html *[Rabid GOP Drug War, & bible-thumping in bedrooms & schools. Alabama Live Politics forum. This archived, heated debate thread (at end) exposes USA mindset. Many thread messages are FOCUSSED LINK/CHART LISTS.].| =============================================================== http://homepages.go.com/homepages/m/a/r/marthag1/tompaine.htm *TOM PAINE's Home Page. [Focussed, drug war, chart, table, and link compilations. International. Comprehensive. Just Say Know!].| & http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/research/messages/572.shtml =============================================================== Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jun 99 05:40:37 MDT From: Tom Barrus <4liberty@netscape.net> To: letters@nytimes.com, John.Mica@mail.house.gov, McCaffrey_b@a1.eop.gov Cc: , Boulder Weekly Subject: Congressional drug liars Message-ID: <19990622114037.26402.qmail@ww182.netaddress.usa.net> Editor, New York Times: On Sun, 20 June 1999, in the New York Times, Christopher Wren wrote "OPPO= SING CAMPS SQUARE OFF AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ABOUT DRUG LEGALIZATION" [ The hearing illustrated Congress' reluctance to rethink the war against d= rugs, on which the federal government spends nearly $18 billion a year. ] Congress has no war against drugs. If it did, tobacco and alcohol would b= e at the forefront of this war. Instead, it has an Insane War Against Some Dru= g Users and All Americans. [ "No member of Congress is going to lose a vote because they're tough on drugs," he said. "And it attracts media attention. I suspect pollsters wo= uld tell members of Congress that this is a very good area to be outspoken in." ] Congress is not tough on drugs. Congress is soft on drugs. Congress has surrendered to the drug lords. The proof is that tobacco and alcohol are exempt by name from the Controlled Substances Act. [ In his testimony, McCaffrey described a campaign of deception and half-tr= uths to erode society's disapproval of marijuana and harder drugs, to which 4.= 1 million Americans are now addicted. While 82 percent of the public oppose making illicit drugs legal, he said, there is "a carefully camouflaged, well-funded, tightly knit core of people whose goal is to legalize drugs in the United States." ] Duh, McCaffrey, drugs are already legal in the United States. Why do you = think they call tobacco and alcohol "legal products"? [ Charles said none of the subcommittee members wanted to legalize drugs themselves. But Mica, he said, believed "that an open and honest debate o= nly serves the cause of truth." ] The subcommittee members are all liars. They all want tobacco and alcohol= to remain legal. [ "Legalization is a surrender to despair," said Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, Republican of upstate New York. "It cannot and ought not be any topic of serious discussion in our nation's debate of the challenges of illicit drugs." ] If this is true, Gilman and all the rest of the Republicans and Democrats= have surrendered to despair by keeping tobacco and alcohol "legal products". [ McCaffrey assured the subcommittee that "I am not open-minded about drug = abuse in America." But afterwards, he said he wished that there had been a full= er exposition of the legalization argument. "I want people to come out and say what they believe, and be subject to cross-examination," he said.= ] We need to subject McCaffrey to cross-examination and find out why he is = so dishonest, hypocritical, and irrational about drugs, including tobacco an= d alcohol. We need to know why McCaffrey, Mica, et.al. do not believe in th= e "equal protection of the laws" when it comes to drugs. [ Nadelmann said he was quoted out of context. "My secret agenda is not the= legalization of drugs," he said. "It's the creation of a drug policy base= d upon common sense, science, public health and human rights." ] What a coward and liar Nadelmann is. Of course, rational people want the legalization of drugs. The alternative is the criminalization of ALL drug= s, including tobacco and alcohol. Who wants tobacco and alcohol to be regula= ted as controlled substances? When members of Congress and the Clinton Administration talk about drugs,= you can be sure that their talk will be fundamentally dishonest and irrationa= l. They do not know what a drug is when they light one with a cigarette ligh= ter and inhale, or pop open a can of drugs and drink it. Tom Barrus, R.Ph. MBA Colorado American Federation for Legal Consistency P.O. Box 10732 Golden, Colorado 80401 (303) 499-4648 <4liberty@netscape.net> ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:50:09 -0500 From: "aslinn" To: "Jess Williams" , "restore Hemp" Subject: Re: SANCTUARY Message-ID: <000b01bebcad$c440d5a0$4d53b7d1@aslinn.indy.net> > > I want to talk about REAL Addiction > > I have to say one thing about the all consuming thirst for money and power > exhibited by corporate america and their paid lackeys, our legislators: > > Watching a millionaire grasping for the billion is like watching an obese > person stuff food in their mouths with both hands until they vomit. >Watching > the legislators fight each other over the power is like watching a sloppy > drunk buying another bottle as he wipes the vomit from his chin. That's a good characterization. Indeed, there are similar traits. > > Watching someone feeding their addiction to power and money, always looking > for the next fix, ready and willing to cause a great deal of pain to get > their 'high' is a disgusting thing. It's hard to watch CSpan anymore or my > local media spouting the thinly disguised lies, because everywhere I look > are the really dangerous greed addicts. They are as out of control as the > skankiest pockfaced heroin addict on the street. I don't know if any of > them use illegal drugs or not, they don't have to take urine tests. But I > know if you want to track one down, just follow the money. > The only valid reason, imo, to follow the mainstream media is to get a clue as to where to look for the next violation of our rights. > So, I just read an article talking about this very thing. > > WHY should these politicians have anything to do with independent charities > or religious organizations? Because there's only a few more areas of our > lives they haven't infiltrated? Something, food or supplies or homeless > people who don't use their social security cards? What is it they are not > in charge of that they want now? They don't yet have total control over every aspect of our lives. They'll not stop until they reach that goal. They are dangerously close now. I had to take my 16 year old step daughter through the system so she could get a summer job. Here in Indiana a person under 18 has to submit to a criminal background check and fingerprinting. Of course, throughout the nation, as soon as you're born now you are issued a social security number. Woe be to the parent who resists! > > Why? I don't understand why we're letting those terrible people in > Washington get involved in more of our burdened and taxed little lives. > What's the point? They have a track record; years of lies and deceit, waste > in every field they penetrate, fraud and thievery. Management, >bookkeeping, > public relations, they are failures in everything. > Because the people have not stood against the govt. For many years, we were led down the garden path, believing that our govt would take care of us. Boy, did they ever take care of us! > So they say separation of church and state, but you know Billie Graham and > the rest of the white house crowd blurred that line long ago. Making >federal > laws about religion and schools, that wasn't separation. But now they want > to meld the two. So after years of rejecting the principles of faith > incorporated in the constitution, they want become part of love, hope, and > charity? No. I think they want to own love hope and charity. > Organized religion is at the base of the ills we have in this society today. > Why let them get involved in more? Nothing they do in Washington is for > our good, hasn't been for a long time. Can't you see that yet? Everything > they do sucks our power away, or makes us fat and lazy, so we let them take > whatever they want. Our kids will be next. > > I WANT TO KNOW WHY our churches and peacekeepers and media are abandoning > the people. > Because they've been bought, lock, stock and barrel by the govt/industrial/religious complex. They've been guaranteed a piece of the pie for their treachery against the people. They are not to be trusted any more than the govt itself. > Don't even give me this for-my-own-good stuff. Don't tell me its for the > children. I have NO faith left - not in the leaders and authorities nor > their words. They've sold their soul for the next hit of their addiction. I > want the leaders of the churches and centers, the reporters and teachers to > explain why they would support this kind of leadership even to turning > against their own people. I think they're looking at this in a light of "The fall is going to happen. We'll make sure we don't fall with it." Stupidity and greed make them turn away from what they know is right. > We've got to stop giving everything away or at least be more selective in > who we give it to. Watching people turn loose of precious freedom to the > school yard bullies is a scary thing. Don't you know to them you are > 'sheeple?' > > Don't let them take another thing. Don't give them our independent > ministries set up by and for the people. Where will we find sanctuary? > We have to make our own sanctuary. None will be provided that we don't make ourselves. It's time for the people to unite and fight. Skywolf. > Kay Lee http://www.zyworld.com/kay~lee/home.htm > STOP REPEAT OFFENDERS: Quit Reelecting Them! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Respond to: Skywolf@hempseed.com Independent Internet Journalist "Better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.5 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNpemkaovfT6Mo4NyEQL/6gCeKblQn9ojTF8K/tSn54GcweHdLhAAni6e e1Fg4AvcUkGUkQKkSwlLhEaf =5jxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:06:13 -0700 From: "JT Barrie" To: "CRRH mailing list" Cc: Subject: Re: CA: JUDGE: ACTIVIST CAN'T PROMOTE POT Message-ID: I'm sure that Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms are shouting "states' rights" on the senate floor and furthermore denouncing "activist judges" because of this abuse. They are - aren't they? --- JT Barrie To: mattalk@islandnet.com, maptalk@mapinc.org, drctalk@drcnet.org, restore@crrh.org, fear-talk@mapinc.org Subject: Sent re: HR1658 - Stop Bandits With Badges Message-ID: Honorable Barbara Boxer 112 Senate Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510-0505 (202) 224-3553 (phone) (202) 228-4056 (fax) senator@boxer.senate.gov Honorable Nancy Pelosi 2457 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-0508 (202) 225-4965 (phone) (202) 225-8259 (fax) sf.nancy@mail.house.gov Honorable Dianne Feinstein 331 Senate Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510-0504 (202) 224-3841 (phone) (202) 228-3954 (fax) senator@feinstein.senate.gov Dear California Legislator, I am sending the same message to the three of you. My vote in future elections depends on you voting YES for HR 1658 and similar legislation. Allowing bandits with badges to rob innocent people reminds me of the way the SS and Gestapo plundered "enemies of the state" in Nazi Germany. Eighty percent of all property seizures in the United States are never accompanied by the due process of convicting the owner of a crime. The Department of Justice itself lamely confesses that at least 50% of all assests are taken from people completely innocent of all charges. Nevertheless, these goosestepping poltroons insist on continuing to plunder decent people who have worked hard all their lives and never committed a crime. Allowing innocent unconvicted people to have their property stolen by legal trickery is a national disgrace. Particularly when the state uses known liars and convicted criminals to steal the property. Property forfeiture is a national disgrace that perverts and corrupts police from proper law enforcement goals. Forfeiture happy police focus their efforts on grabbing property instead of enforcing criminal laws like burglary, armed robbery, assault, rape, child molesting and murder. The way property is being taken is very much like the British injustices that led to the American Revolution. I doubt that you could find a single writer of the Constitution who would support property forfeiture before conviction of a crime. Why does this great nation that calls itself the "land of the free" insist on putting an enslaving taxing power in the hands of self-interested cops. Taxation is the business of Congress, not beat cops with a quota. Support HR 1658 and help end this unConstitutional robbery of honest citizens under color of authority. Robin Givens San Francisco 415-776-1596 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:00:48 -0400 From: aahpat To: RESTORE Subject: IOM IRRELEVANT Message-ID: <376FC130.968C2475@enter.net> So now the Institute of Medicine has issued a report that says that silicone breast implants are not dangerous. Of course industry and the government will take this into court as decisive medical fact to fight against women who claim injury from such implants. But the Institute of Medicine must be viewed as irrelevant to the science and law of America. After all, look at the reaction of the government and industry to the IOM report about Marijuana. If the IOM marijuana report has no basis for developing policy and law in America then the women suing the manufacturers of silicone implants should argue that the IOM is irrelevant in issuing this implant report. Pat aahpat@enter.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:16:55 EDT From: Swftl@aol.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Fwd: [smashthestate] What If its Legalized Message-ID: <96e3fa31.24a11f07@aol.com> --part1_96e3fa31.24a11f07_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_96e3fa31.24a11f07_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (rly-yh02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.34]) by air-yh05.mail.aol.com (v59.51) with SMTP; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:18:46 -0400 Received: from onelist.com (pop.onelist.com [209.207.164.211]) by rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:18:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 9581 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 1999 07:18:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 9570 invoked from network); 22 Jun 1999 07:18:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailsorter-105-1.bryant.webtv.net) (209.240.198.119) by pop.onelist.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 1999 07:18:35 -0000 Received: from postoffice-151.iap.bryant.webtv.net (postoffice-151.iap.bryant.webtv.net [209.240.198.213]) by mailsorter-105-1.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.gso.08Dec97) with ESMTP id AAA24662; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from production@localhost) by postoffice-151.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/po.gso.24Feb98) id AAA15557; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:18:26 -0700 (PDT) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQDBJdIzl17pQmDJFNk3zDihGHD2QIUNMKpoJ1/f0OzmLB8mEP74o8GFww= From: CLaw7MAn@webtv.net (Mike Steindel) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:18:26 -0700 (PDT) To: bay_area_activist@onelist.com, cp@telelists.com Cc: dpfhi@drugsense.org, gnn@grassrootsnews.org, idwct@egroups.com, november-d@drugsense.org, smashthestate@onelist.com Message-ID: <5394-376F38C2-32406@postoffice-151.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Mailing-List: list smashthestate@onelist.com; contact smashthestate-owner@onelist.com Delivered-To: mailing list smashthestate@onelist.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Subject: [smashthestate] What If its Legalized From: CLaw7MAn@webtv.net (Mike Steindel) I have been asking myself whats gonna happen when Cannabis is legalized. Not immediately but after several months or even years and the general public that would have never disobeyed the law has found it to be as soothing and mild as the rest of us have. How are they gonna feel about all the needless pain that many of their family members with diseases that Cannabis could have helped suffered with instead or may have died prematurely. How about the people that paid for marinol living on limited social security checks gonna feel when they realize that they could have grown a superior product in their backyard instead of being held up by the pharmaceutical companies. Farmers in america are being stopped from growing hemp because the DEA says it cannot tell the difference between hemp and smokable cannabis, how are they going to react to the truth when they see the difference. What about those of us that new the law was bullshit and defied it only to be caught and in many cases have our cash, cars and homes taken away from us. How about those that spent countless years in the slam for getting high on mother nature. Just imagine how the populace of America is gonna react when they realize that the Drug War is a LIE and the tax money spent has been for nothing other that to deprive us Life, liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness. And allow the Govt. to push their weight around in foreign countries. What are you gonna do when that day comes... Because That Day is Coming... mike --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Books, music, videos, gifts, e-cards, auctions-find them at AMAZON.COM. Browse Earth's Biggest Selection! Enjoy everyday savings of up to 50%! Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --part1_96e3fa31.24a11f07_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:49:50 PDT From: Tom Barrus To: osoinsight@aol.com, John.Mica@mail.house.gov, McCaffrey_b@a1.eop.gov Cc: restore@crrh.org, DPFT-L@TAMU.EDU Subject: Drugs are already "legal products" Message-ID: <19990622174950.94943.qmail@hotmail.com> Editor, Orlando Sentinel: On Sun, 20 June 1999, the Orlando Sentinel, published an article from the New York Times, "No one wants to talk about drug legalization". Drugs are already "legal products". Congress has no war against drugs. Instead, it has an Insane War Against Some Drug Users and All Americans. [ "No member of Congress is going to lose a vote because they're tough on drugs," he (Eric E. Sterling )said. ] Congress is not tough on drugs. Congress is soft on drugs. Congress has surrendered to the drug lords. The proof is that tobacco and alcohol are exempt by name from the Controlled Substances Act. The subcommittee members all want tobacco and alcohol to remain legal. We need to know why McCaffrey, Mica, et.al. do not believe in the "equal protection of the laws" when it comes to drugs. Tom Barrus, R.Ph. MBA Colorado American Federation for Legal Consistency P.O. Box 10732 Golden, Colorado 80401 (303) 239-2104 (d) (303) 499-4648 (e) <4liberty@netscape.net> _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:10:53 -0500 From: " Joe Hart & Kay Lee" To: "Restore" Subject: IS THIS BEHAVIOR NECESSARY? Message-ID: Forwarded to remind you that by 2020, half of us will live like this. KayLee The daily horror story from Texas prisons. john ----- Original Message ----- From: Anna Vähäkangas To: Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 3:49 AM Subject: Harassment in Texas Friends, I and my mother have received *many* letters like the following. This one came this morning. Some prisoners don't get the money we send, others have their property taken away. Is there really nothing we can do? Anna aboaev@yahoo.com ************************** "My Dear Friend, "I received your letter and was glad to hear from you. I have so much to say and can't find the words. We are under a lot of strain and there is a lot of tension here. There is a lot of us being harassed by them taking our property away from us. We have been waiting to get at least part of our stuff back and now the lady in charge of handling our property went on vacation. She is supposed to be gone for up to two to three weeks so that leaves a lot of us stuck out and I haven't had any shoes on my feet for three weeks. "We do now know for sure that we will be moved to the new unit by November and will all be locked down in single cells and not have contact with anyone. All we can do will be to sit and stare at the four walls and try to keep from losing our minds and survive. A lot of people here are contacting their lawyers and asking to drop their appeals because they feel that there is not any sense in going through this harassment. That, however, is just what the State wants them to do. "Well, I am going to close for now and get this off in the mail to you so I will be in touch later. "Your Friend" ***** ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the P.A.T.R.I.C.K web site: http://www.patrickcrusade.org ---------------------------------------------- --------------- From: "john hammar" ------------------------------------------------------------- Kay Lee http://www.zyworld.com/kay~lee/home.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:18:08 -0700 From: Steve Kubby To: "Kubby Announce" Subject: The Kubby Files: v3.0 Now Online Message-ID: June 22, 1999 THE KUBBY FILES, V3.0 IS NOW ONLINE. --------------------------------- Latest news on Kubby Raid: http://www.kubby.com JOURNALIST CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES KUBBY ARREST: "The Drug Warriors' Worst Mistake" WILLIAM F. 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Dvorak" Cc: boston.hemp@pobox.com Subject: Hemp Documentary "Emperor of Hemp" Released on Video Message-ID: <37702872.38DD@pobox.com> For Immediate Release JACK HERER FILM GOES ON SALE Hemp Documentary "Emperor of Hemp" Now Released on Video -- Available Exclusively Through Website VENTURA, CA -- "Emperor of Hemp -- a nonfiction film about one man's fight for truth, justice .. and a plant -- is now available on video exclusively over the Internet. Produced by Double J Films of Ventura, CA., the documentary was funded by Body Shop International founder Anita Roddick, written by former L.A. Times staff writer Jeff Meyers and directed by Jeff Jones. Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristerofferson, Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick provided songs for the soundtrack. Peter Coyote supplies the narration. The 59-minute film tells Jack Herer=92s story and how he came to write th= e underground bestseller =93The Emperor Wears No Clothes.=94 Even if you've= read the book, "Emperor of Hemp," will take you down new paths. It explores Herer's transformation from Goldwater Republican to father of the modern hemp movement. His tenacious crusade to bring hemp back from the brink of extinction. His rejection by the marijuana reform movement, and his ultimate vindication. It puts you inside the Library of Congress when he finds proof that "Hemp for Victory" was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture And it examines the rather peculiar circumstances surrounding the prohibition of a simple beneficial plant. Double J Films has no plans at this time to show the film on TV or in theaters. It is only being sold online at www.emperorofhemp.com. Praise for "Emperor of Hemp": Bill Maher, "Politically Incorrect" -- "A triumph for the open-minded." Richard Cowan, Marijuananews.com -- =93Fun =85 entertaining, informative= and often powerful =85 a must-see.=94 (read Dick Cowan=92s entire review = at www.marijuananews.com ) Dan Skye, High Times -- "A super-duper film bio and a great intro to hemp." Pete Brady, Cannabis Culture -- "A poetic plea to end the drug war =85 the best pot doc ever made." (read Pete Brady=92s entire review at www.cannabisculture.com) Mari Kane, HempWorld =96 =93A great historical document.=94 CONTACT: Jeff Meyers (jmeyers@emperorofhemp.com) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:34:57 -0700 From: Steve Kubby To: "Kubby Announce" Subject: High Times: Aaron Anderson Message-ID: (Note: Aaron Anderson came by yesterday for a visit and boy was I was impressed. Anderson nearly won his last bid for election, scoring 26% in a three way race. He's beaten back City Hall and made a federal case out of their illegal and immoral behavior. Both Anderson and Christie are walking a high path, re-defining local politics. This recent only account is but a brief introduction to the exploits of these New Age politicians.) High Times Online http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9906/livepot.html FILED 06/14/99 Live Pot Plants From Dead Hempseeds? Pay Up, Prosecutors! Aaron Anderson, veteran hemp and marijuana advocate on the Big Island of Hawaii, has been advised by the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that he stands to be reimbursed by Hawaii County for the 25 pounds of sterilized hempseed they seized from him in 1991--to the tune of $120,000 per pound, for a total of $3 million. Anderson will be arguing shortly in civil court that the county prosecutor's office violated his constitutionally protected right to free speech, because he was singled out for prosecution due to his advocacy activities. While plenty of Hawaiian citizens buy hempseed every day to feed their parrots and cockatoos--it's available at WalMart--none has ever been busted for it except Anderson and his friend, Roger Christie. Anderson will also attempt to prove that County Prosecutor Jay Kimura knew that his deputy Kay Iopa had falsified evidence in order to secure Anderson's indictment by a grand jury. Leaning on the Hempsters Back in 1991, Anderson and Christie were plotting nothing more nefarious than the manufacture of tasty baked goods when they ordered 25 pounds of sterilized hempseed from a DEA-licensed distributing company in Fargo, ND, which had legally imported it from China. Brothers in arms (they share the same birthday), Anderson and Christie had gotten excited about hempseed cuisine at the first Hemp Expo in San Francisco. They planned to turn their community on to the delights of gourmet hemp goodies. While their ulterior motive was undeniably to "confound the prohibitionists," this is not now nor ever has been a crime anywhere in the United States of America. Anderson and Christie have always been active with the Hawaii Hemp Council, and fond of exercising their free-speech rights. Anderson has run for mayor of the Big Island three times, mostly for the speaking opportunities provided by campaigning. Acutely aware of this, Deputy County Prosecutor Kay Iopa thought she saw an opportunity to lean on the hempsters, and had the whole consignment of seed intercepted en route from North Dakota. Anderson and Christie never laid hands on it. And in April 1992, a grand jury indicted them for a felony called "second-degree promotion of a detrimental drug." But Kay Iopa had made a couple of mistakes involving the law herself, the Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled. For one thing, she presented the grand jury with a police detective who testified that the cops grew 11 plants from these DEA-sterilized seeds. This was later determined to be bunk--and providentially for the police, too, who could have been duly charged themselves with "manufacturing" cannabis without a DEA license, if they'd actually succeeded. Immaculate Germination? "The first two tests were done by the police, at the police station, without a permit," explains Roger Christie. "They came up with zero germination, twice. But on the third test, all of a sudden, out of tens of thousands of plain brown hemp seeds, eleven plants are grown: all from speckled and striped seeds! They weren't our seeds." Through the courtroom discovery process, Christie has obtained color photos of the plain, brown, unspeckled and unstriped Chinese seeds that were delivered via North Dakota; these photos will likely be introduced as evidence in the new trial. And it gets even better. Next, having obtained this highly dubious indictment, Iopa offered to enter into a plea-bargaining process with the defendants--but only if Anderson and Christie would stop writing letters on the case to the local newspapers, and if Anderson would stop running for public office. The Ninth Circuit later took an exceptionally dim view of these other-than-democratic proceedings. Anderson and Christie of course refused this enticement, and the case went to trial. Whereupon Iopa herself got on the stand, took the oath, and testified out loud. "As a practical matter, no, we're not going to go out, bust the little old lady that's got a bag of bird seeds," she said, inadvertently addressing the constitutional topic of equal protection under the law for all citizens. "When you get 25 pounds," she added, "going to, um, a hemp grower, that is very vocally, very outwardly advocating the legalization of marijuana." As if that were a crime, which it is not, even in Hawaii. Basically, not only did her testimony display ignorance of hemp botany, but also that the Hawaii County authorities were selectively prosecuting these very public hemp-and-pot advocates. If they had been busted simply to shut them up, then that was a violation of their constitutional right to free speech, the Ninth Circuit justices ultimately ruled. Oops, Never Mind. PLEASE Never Mind! Hawaii County dropped the charges against Christie in 1995. Anderson's trial ended in a deadlocked jury and was declared a mistrial, and eventually dismissed by the judge. Anderson and Christie filed suit in 1995 against Iopa, her boss Jay Kimura, and Hawaii County, claiming the prosecution was selective and therefore illegal, and seeking $3 million in damages. The county said they weren't responsible for Iopa's actions, and when the District Court judge agreed, Anderson took it all the way to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, whose rulings apply to the entire Western section of the USA, even to the mid-Pacific. On June 2, 1999 a Ninth US Circuit judge in San Francisco excluded Roger Christie from the suit because his charges had been properly dropped, and he is now planning to refile against the same people in state court. The Circuit panel then ruled that Aaron Anderson definitely has a civil-rights-violation case, and that it must be heard in federal court in Honolulu. The San Francisco justice wrote that there was evidence that Jay Kimura, the county prosecutor, knew of Iopa's actions and either approved of or was "deliberately indifferent" to them. "I'm thrilled that we'll be able to get to have the light shone on this case in federal court," says Christie. "The credibility for cannabis and hemp is going up, and the credibility of prohibition is going down. I'm happy to be in the right elevator for a change." Hawaii County now holds the ball. They may appeal the Ninth Circuit ruling to US Supreme Court. They may wait and go to trial sometime next winter. Or they may offer Anderson a cash settlement, an option they have stated they are actively considering. As for Kay Iopa, she resigned from the county prosecutor's office last December after she was caught "misrepresenting information" regarding court evidence in a murder case. She continues in private practice, taking cases from the public defender's office. "She's just about as sour as ever," says Anderson. "She's a really hard woman to watch, she's so stuck." Christie is more blunt. "She's a danger to the community," he says. And what would Anderson do with a state-awarded three million dollars for his big burlap bag of hempseed? "If we win the case, we'll be ready for moving forward with the hemp industry," says Anderson. "I'll be in the market for the biggest seed press and one of those seed-cracking machines!" The HI Hemp Council is celebrating on several fronts nowadays: Hawaiian Governor Benjamin Cayetano is set to sign the Hawaiian Strategic Industrial Hemp Act on July 7, opening the door for the US' first modern industrial-hemp test plot. And Christie's new store, The Hemp Island Outpost, will celebrate its grand opening on June 15, the friends' shared birthday. 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