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Postings For January 1999

Postings For January 31, 1999

After Interview With Steve Kubby, Orange County Weekly Says
Arresting Him "May Have Been Prop 215 Opponents' Worst Mistake"

Patients In Oregon and California Struggle to Get Medical Marijuana – 2 Articles

Chavez Sentenced To Six Years For Medical Marijuana; Appeal To Follow;
Orange County Register Calls Sentence "Criminal" -- 2 Editorials

The Lancet Reports On Israeli Plans For Medical Marijuana;
"We don’t want people to have to break the law
to get treatment when no other drug is effective".

Postings For January 29, 1999

3 Stories From Alabama Tell Us More Than We Want to Know About Law Enforcement And "Journalism"

"New Labour" Betrays Workers As UK Drugs Tsar Advocates Employee "Drug" Testing

Devastating Critique Of The Hypocrisy Of UK Drugs Policy In Sunday Times Magazine;
Drug Tsar Says Cannabis Users Are "Zombies."

More States Look At Hemp As Farm Prices Remain At Lows;
DEA Will Have A Busy Season On The Lying Tour -- 3 Stories.

Postings For January 28, 1999

Justice Department Rejects Judge’s Request
To Expand Medical Marijuana Distribution Program --NORML PR

A Defense Lawyer Warns About KGB-ING AMERICA
-- "The government is too strong. Beware!"

Buckley Blames Drug Prohibition For The Wide-Spread Perjury Of Snitches

A Very Bright Reporter Discovers The Meaning Of The Word Hemp
And Gains Just A Little Insight Into the Meaning Of Marijuana Prohibition

Postings For January 27, 1999

September 7th Trial Date Set For McCormick and McWilliams;
McCormick Bail Revocation Hearing Set For March 17.

The AP Carries Story Reporting That Lockyer Is Ignoring Libertarian Party Call
To Protect Rights Of Kubby and Other Medical Marijuana Users

40 Million To 60 Million Canadian Dollars In Drugs Flow Through Quebec Prisons Annually.
"There is a commercial enterprise of drug dealing in the prisons."
"We jail people more than other (Western) countries, except for the United States."

Baltimore County To Provide Parents With Kits To Do "Instant Drug Testing" On Their Children.

Postings For January 26, 1999

Evidence In Kubby Case Obtained Through Bedroom Surveillance;
Narcs Observed And Videotaped Kubbys Having Sex

California Writer And Medical Marijuana Patient Pete Brady Faces Years In Prison;
Arrest May To Due To Association With Steve Kubby

National Libertarian Party Ready To Focus On Placer County,
Where 8 People Using Medicinal Marijuana With Doctor Approval Have Been Raided,
Harassed, Imprisoned, And Persecuted By The Placer County Sheriff Despite Prop 215.

"Teen Dies Smoking Marijuana" – Actually, He Was Killed By Prohibitionist Propaganda.

Postings For January 25, 1999

Will Foster Denied Parole Despite Unanimous Recommendation of Parole Board!

UK Man Fined 1,000 Pounds For 2 Pounds Worth Of Homegrown.
Refuses To Pay. Ready To Go To Prison. Cites Case Of Justice Minister’s Son.

North Dakota House Panel Backs Removing Industrial Hemp
From The State’s List Of "Noxious Weed Seeds." --
Bill Introduced By Republican; Narks Say Hemp Was Smoked Back In 1960s.

Posting For January 24, 1999

From The DEAland Northwest To The UK
--Patients Demand Access To Medical Marijuana -- 4 Articles

Postings For January 22, 1999

Judge Releases Kubbys On Own Recognizance.
Libertarian Party Organizations Now Committed To The Marijuana Issue.
Large Number Of Plants Will Force Dealing With Difficult Questions -- Analysis By Richard Cowan

State and National Libertarian Party Organizations Denounce Arrest
Of Medical Marijuana Activist Steve Kubby, Request Help For Legal Defense Fund

Orange County Register Denounces Kubby Arrest As "Outrage in Law"

Canadian-American Hemp Flag Exchange Scheduled For ‘99 Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo

Postings For January 21, 1999

Wire Services Report On Kubby Arrest; Libertarian Party Leaders Speak Out

Israeli Health Ministry Establishes Committee To Set Guidelines For Doctors To Prescribe Marijuana.
The Police Already Do – 2 Articles – Shalom, Dude

Fox Carries Muddled Report On San Francisco Medical Marijuana Tests, As They Finally Get Started
– But Also Has Some Useful Facts

New Zealand Paper Gives Hawaiian Nark Free Ride On Prohibitionist Propaganda
"Singapore an example that New Zealand and the United States could follow."

Drug Testing In Singapore and Oklahoma – 2 Stories
– "A JOBLESS man who defied narcotics officers by peeing in his trousers, 
rather than provide a urine sample has been sentenced to six years’ jail and three strokes of the cane."
  Where We Are Going

Postings For January 20, 1999

After Lockyer Says He Won’t Fight To Support Rights Under Prop 215
Former California Libertarian Party Gubernatorial Candidate And Medical Marijuana Patient
Steve Kubby Arrested On Cultivation And "Conspiracy" Charges!

Canadian Paper Gives Mounties Free Ride On Prohibitionist Propaganda
On Marijuana Growing; Lying At The Public Expense

Marijuana Prohibition Makes Jamaica A Hub For Cocaine Traffic;
But They Seize 300 Times As Much  Marijuana As Cocaine.
DEAland Pressures Them To Escalate

American Farm Bureau Drops Opposition To Hemp!
State Marijuana Eradication Program Poses Environmental, Human Hazards --  NORML PR

Postings For January 19, 1999

UK Drug Tsar Completes Americanization
By Becoming Utterly Incoherent On Why Marijuana Is Not A "Soft Drug"

Lockyer Says He Will Not Fight For Or Against Medical Marijuana;
All That Is Necessary For the Triumph Of Evil Is For Enough Good AGs To Do Nothing

Tobacco Deal Forces Kentucky Farmers To Take Hemp Issue More Seriously

Public Objections May Finally Get Restrictions On Militarized Marijuana Eradication
In Northern California -- Notice the Difference in 2 Articles

Postings For January 18, 1999

What Is The Only Four Letter Word You Won’t Hear In DEAland’s Largest Movie Theater Chain? H-E-M-P!

An Interview With Gary Webb Shows The Importance of The Internet And The Alternative Press

Reefer Madness Journalism From Africa Gives An Insight
Into The Long Arm Of DEAland Narco-Imperialism

Postings For January 17, 1999

Leading Scottish Paper Reports Inmates Warn
That New "Drug" Testing Will Lead To More Hard Drug Use

Hemp Times Magazine To Produce Fashion Show For ‘99 Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo;
Check Out Their Web Site

Libertarian Party Blasts Congress For Spending $23 Million
To Develop Killer Fungus That Might Be Used Against Hemp

A Look At Hemp’s Uses and Competition From A Pre-Prohibition Perspective

What Is The Most Addictive Drug Served In Amsterdam Coffee Shops?

Postings For January 15, 1999

Swedish Prohibitionists Cite USA Today Article On Canadian Marijuana
Supposedly So Potent It Is Being "Traded
Pound-For-Pound For Cocaine In The United States."
– Following the Development Of Prohibitionist Propaganda

An Excellent Look at Medical Marijuana In The Arizona Republic

Today Would Have Been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 70th Birthday.
His Message Of Non-Violence Is More Important Than Ever.

Postings For January 14, 1999

Oakland Club Challenges Constitutionality of Federal Medical Marijuana Ban;
San Francisco To Test New Democratic State Administration -- 2 Articles

As "Drug" Testing Becomes More Common In Ireland
The Irish Independent Takes An Unusually Well-Informed Look At How It Can Be Counterproductive

UK Drug Tsar Becoming A Leftwing Bill Bennett;
Combining Puritanism, Irrationality and Class War -- 2 Articles

Will Foster's Fate In Hands Of Governor;
Body’s Marijuana-Like Agents Hold Hope For High Blood Pressure Patients -- NORML P. R.

Postings For January 13, 1999

Wisconsin Legislator Wants To Legalize Hemp; Fears Support Of Marijuana Reform Advocates;
Attorney General Is Opposed; Narks Claim Local Weed Is 25% THC!

USA Today Recycles A July Story About BC Marijuana Being Traded
Pound For Pound For Coke; It Was Prohibitionist Non-Sense Then, And It Still Is.

Canadian Denied Even The Right To Change Planes In DEAland
After He Admits To Having Inhaled

PBS Frontline Program Snitch Gives Devastating Critique Of Drug War
On Both Television And The Internet

Postings For January 12, 1999

One Of The Best Columns I Have Ever Read;
Truly Great Journalism, Smuggled In From Canada, Of Course

Public Health Reports Journal Says Prohibition Increases Harm Done By Drugs;
Burden Falls Disproportionately On Blacks - "The cure has only worsened the disease."

Drug Czar To Kick Off National Tour Of Lying To Business Leaders In Chicago;
Ogilvy & Mather To Replace Bates USA As Agency For Prohibitionist Propaganda -- 2 Articles

Two New Anti-Prohibitionist Sites:
The Drug Peace Campaign, A California Political Action Committee,
Launched on January 9th in San Francisco. Hemp Activist, Chris Conrad, A Director.

And
Campaign For The Restoration And Regulation Of Hemp Web Site Gets Favorable Review

Postings For January 11, 1999

Page On The Drug Czar’s Web Site—Projectknow.Com—Is Called "True Lies" And It Truly Is

Medication Given For Glaucoma Can Cause Symptoms Of Senility In Some Patients
– But They Cannot Be Given Marijuana Because It Causes Symptoms of Happiness
Context For Medical Marijuana Debate

UK Journalist Found That Marijuana Temporarily Restored Her Sight,
But Her Doctor Couldn’t Conduct Any Tests.

UK Guidelines For Tests On Medical Marijuana To Be Set Today;
Muddled Reporting On Muddled "Experts" -- 2 Articles

Postings For January 10, 1999

New Dutch Drug Use Data Show Success Of Policies of Truth And Tolerance
Full Text of Press Release And Tables With Data On All Drugs

Reuters Carried Dutch Drug Use Comparison With DEAland;
But If You Want To Read About In Your Local Paper, Then Move To Switzerland! -- 2 Articles

US Attorney In Massachusetts Uses Tax Dollars To Pay For Press Release
Boasting Of Arresting 2 Young Men For "Conspiring to Possess Marijuana."

Postings For January 8, 1999

NORML Director Defends Canadian Imprisoned In Nicaragua
After DEA "Convinces" Local Narks That Hemp Is Just Marijuana – Really Sad

Meanwhile Back In Canada, The Hemp Industry Is Being Reborn

18 Month Suspended Sentence Given  Canadian MS Patient Krieger for "Drug Trafficking"
For Supplying Medical Marijuana 

UCLA Researcher Can’t Find Any Dissatisfied Medical Marijuana Users

French Government Says Non! To Legalizing Marijuana Despite New Committee Recommendations,
But Recognizes "There is certainly no question of putting two million people in prison."
Guaranteeing A Black Market.

Postings For January 7, 1999

Dutch Marijuana Use Half That Of DEAland;
One In Seven US Drug Prisoners Serving Time For Marijuana -- NORML PR

Lungren Delayed Release of Survey of California "Student Drug And Alcohol Use"
Showing Increase In Inhalants During His Tenure, But No Increase In Marijuana Use After Prop 215 –
Deceiving the People To The End

A Gem Of Prohibitionist Propaganda About Marijuana And Some Facts About Alcohol
– Both Courtesy The Internet

How Does the Washington Post Tell Its Readers About New German Government’s Marijuana Policy?
Very Carefully.

Bungled Canadian Marijuana Raids Get National Coverage;
Their Police Follow DEAland Practice; Their Media Sometimes Do Not

Postings For January 6, 1999

Seattle Times Editorial Reports Washington State Lt. Governor Brad Owens Fined
For Using Tax Dollars To Campaign Against State Medical Marijuana Initiative

Orange County Weekly Names Marvin Chavez Man Of The Year

Hemp Used To Clean Up Chernobyl Nuclear Contamination

Boston Globe Does Fashion Feature On Local Hempest Emporium

Postings For January 5, 1999

London Times And UK Drug Tsar Follow DEAland Party Line; UK Drug Use "Worst In Europe"
So Marijuana To Be Lumped With Heroin In Prohibitionist Propaganda For Children;
And Lie About the Dutch, Of Course! -- 4 Articles

Robert Scheer Says, "It’s Madness Not To Investigate Pot’s Medical Use."
Yes, But There Is A Method To Their Madness.

California NORML Conference—February 13th -14th -- Register Now!

Hemp-Rageous Jam In New York City On January 10th

Postings For January 4, 1999

Paralyzed Blind Man With AIDS and His 61 Year-old Mother Jailed
After Tacoma Police Find 3 Marijuana Plants In Home. 
Police Weren't Sure He Was Medical User? -- 2 Stories

New California Attorney General To Enforce Prop 215  -- 2 Articles

Vancouver Compassion Club Featured In 2 Stories

UK Moves Toward Medical Marijuana Trials; The Prince Seems To Approve, But Not the BMA -- 2 Articles

Marijuana May Protect Against Tumors; Maine Medical Marijuana Initiative In ‘99 -- NORML PR

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