Dear Friends and allies in the movement to repeal present bad Cannabis Laws in the US. The long anticipated battle for my freedom has been set  for jury trial on June 1, 1998.

Many of you I have had the privilege of meeting personally since I publicly stepped forward to fight the legislature and educate the masses in 1990. A more loyal order of patriots dedicated to preservation of the constitution I doubt exists. I respect and admire each and every one of you, my brothers and sisters.

Others only know me by reputation. I am not going to waste band width patting myself on the back.

I will only share with those who do not know me, that I have written thousands of letters, articles, made hundreds of speeches to my local, state, and federal government, in schools, to farming organizations, and the media. I, like so many others have traveled around the nation sharing the benefits of Cannabis Sativa. I have been fortunate enough to visit countries and see for myself where regulated Cannabis Laws work.

I ran for public office and served my community through that position by participating on several boards through the four year term. I ran for re-election, and won a second four year term by more votes than any one else, only to have my city government decide I could not serve. (Hemp World Summer 1997.)

With consistency, I have applied for Federal Licensing to cultivate hemp in the state of Kansas every year since 1992 to 1998. I also annually requested the City Manager’s Office in the city of Wichita to provide me a license to distribute marijuana. I honestly never expected them to issue me a license, but I did want them to keep me at the top of the list in case the laws ever changed. In 1997 Kansas legislature presented SCR 1605 providing hemp cultivation in this state. July 1997, the IRS approved my Employers Identification Number for "Hemp Industries of Kansas".

I am the person responsible for exposing the subject of state marijuana tax stamps. I have personally purchased and offered for resale over $30,000 worth of Kansas Marijuana Tax Stamps between 1992 & 1996. (High Times August 1994, High Times March 1996.)

Since 1992, I have been arrested four times. I have lived in seclusion of friends for the past two years because I am so "hot" - everyone is afraid to be around me. I have been to court, in the process of prosecution, and in hearings perhaps three hundred times since 1992. There is no doubt in my mind, the government would like me to shut up.

I would like to point out that I have not personally consumed Cannabis since June of 1996. Even though I must obtain written permission from a judge to leave the country where I reside, I have not once neglected my personal commitment to step forward and verbally continue this battle against the War on Drugs. Which includes lobbying my government annually in our state capital.

On June 1, 1998, I am to begin a jury trial, which involves the FBI, the CIA, the Wichita Police Department, and the seizure of my computer. This trial will cover communication between myself and the White House, the ONDCP, the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and involves personal communication with perhaps 75% of the elected officials local, state and federal across the nation since 1990.

RE: Invasions of State Political Action Headquarters & Hemp Store on March 20, 1996, & April 2, 1996. (In 1995 and 1996, I was publishing hemp data daily in ten page increments to about 10,000 newspaper & magazine editors, television and radio broadcasters. I had been doing this about a year.) The computer incident was the first to follow the initiative set forth by Dr. Eric Voth of Kansas, an advisor to the ONDCP, and the 1996 House Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on the adequacy of present marijuana laws. To silence us was the goal and the main purposes of these hearings.
(Ed. note: Voth is the head of Drug Watch International.)

Mandatory sentencing in the state of Kansas is the hard 40 (40 years) for third time convicted felons of drug charges. Quantity does not matter. Anything after the first charge is always a felony. My first marijuana conviction was a misdemeanor charge while attending college in 1972.

I am very frightened for myself. My courage and belief in the freedom of speech in the US has turned to fear of my government. I have had to abandon my loving children to protect them from being drawn in by the government to these proceedings. Imagine telling your children not to come home for Mother’s Day.

My last conviction resulting from an auto stop in October of 1995 of .091 of a gram of marijuana ash, scrapped from a closed ash tray began as police officers discussed having the hemplady pulled over. I had ten dollar Kansas Marijuana Tax Stamps in my purse, and was charged with a felony. I have been waiting for two years for the appellate court to render a ruling on this case.

Yes, there is another tax stamp trial in my future. The state of Kansas knows they sold me all these tax stamps through the mail in return envelopes they provided to me for my convenience.

PLEASE RESPOND SO I WILL KNOW I DO NOT STAND ALONE.

I have never had large sums of money to pay for attorney fees. With the continuos seizure of my funds, and the restrictions I have been surviving under, I find it very difficult to manage on a hourly income, much less have moneys for my attorney fees. I am blessed with one of the best attorney’s in the nation.

Charles A. O’Hara, Attorney at Law: 1502 N. Broadway, Wichita, Kansas, 67214 (316) 263-5601

I am asking that anyone who might have funds to help me please do so. I understand many do not. If this is your position then would you PLEASE SEND A CARD OR NOTE TO MY ATTORNEY telling him how much you appreciate his personal endeavors toward protecting my rights and the rights of fellow Americans.

PLEASE TELL CHARLIE I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON FIGHTING THIS BATTLE.