April 14th, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kubby for Governor
P.O. Box 1012
Garden Grove, CA 92842-1012
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE JOINS CALLS TO FREE TODD MCCORMICK
LOS ANGELES The Libertarian Party candidate for California governor today said
Democrats and Republicans will "have blood on their hands if they continue to use
barbaric tactics to interfere with the cancer treatment of Todd McCormick." Steve
Kubby said both major political parties are hypocrites who turned their backs on the will
of California voters who passed Prop. 215. That measure allowed sick and suffering
Californians to find relief with medical marijuana.
In a statement read to a rally for McCormick in front of the Federal Court House in
downtown Los Angeles today, Kubby said, "Dan Lundgren proves Republican leaders are
hypocrites. The GOP says they believe in states’ rights, yet the GOP’s top cop
invited the feds to march into California and overrule the voters."
Kubby was equally critical of Democratic Party leaders, "How often have we heard
that a woman’s body is her own and no government agency should interfere with the
decisions she and her physician make for her medical treatment. If the right to choose
your own medical treatment is precious, why turn their backs now on this man who is dying
in their custody?"
Kubby Press Secretary Richard B. Boddie said "Libertarians are unanimous in the
belief that no governmental authority has a right to interfere with the medical choices
made by patients and their medical care providers."
Kubby joins San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., in calling for the federal
government to impose a moratorium on enforcement of marijuana laws that interfere with the
locally regulated operation of cannabis patient clubs to allow patients access to their
medicine.
See San Francisco
Mayor Brown Urges "Don’t Bar A Pain Killer Approved By Voters"
McCormick was arrested by federal agents in July of 1997. Since then he has suffered
severe physical and mental deterioration as the result of his cancer. In late February,
McCormick was persuaded to try Marinol, a prescription form of THC, one of the active
ingredients in medical marijuana. While it helped a little, federal authorities issued a
warrant for his arrest because a urine test showed traces of THC, which is a normal result
of taking the legally prescribed medication.
Said Kubby, "People are suffering and dying because of the policies of the
state’s two largest political parties. I’m telling you that if I’m elected
Governor, we’ll tell Washington to get the heck out of California."
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