Postings For June 1999

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Postings For June 30, 1999.

Drug Czar Conducts War On Meaning In Washington Post

Mendocino County Starts Voluntary Medical Marijuana User ID Program

Calgary Compassion Club Sets Up Multiple Grow Locations:
"The idea is to spread the pot around so it’s not vulnerable to a single raid by thieves or police."

San Francisco Chronicle Gossip Column Reports On NORML Party!

Postings For June 29, 1999.

Kubby Trial Scheduled for July 20 – National Publicity Expected

Why Andrew Weil Supports Medical Marijuana

California "Attorney With An Attitude" Critiques Prop 215:
"It Is Time To Write A New Law And Pass It As A New Proposition."
Special To Marijuananews

Swedish Heresy: "Most teens today have access to the Internet,
many travel/study abroad, and it’s not difficult for this majority
to arrive at other information than that which is officially provided in Sweden."

Postings For June 28, 1999.

San Francisco District Attorney Attends NORML Fundraiser,
Promises To Testify For Defense In Sonoma Medical Marijuana Grower’s Case
– Special To MarijuanaNews

Australians Are Catching On To The "Potent Pot" Myth

Ask A Philosopher:
"July 1 is Cannabis Day in Canada. What more can the legalization movement do?"

New Zealand Landowner Offers A Different Reason To Oppose Marijuana Prohibition

Postings For June 25, 1999.

Letter From NORML Board Member Praising Change in Canada’s Marijuana Policies
Published In The Very Prohibitionist Wall Street Journal

More Unequal Injustice In California;
Raids on Medical Marijuana Supplies Hurt the Sick and Dying

House Passes Forfeiture Restrictions By Overwhelming Margin –
The Oddest Bedfellows, Even for Washington, But Opposed By Administration – 2 Articles.

Salt Lake Paper Defects From Drug War:
"The United States never has been engaged in a real war with such disastrous losses.
No foreign power has ever been able to divorce American citizens from or limit the individual liberties
this nation’s founders said were inalienable." – Can Orrin Hatch Read?

Postings For June 24, 1999.

Scottish Committee of British Medical Association Backs Legalizing Marijuana;
New Mexico Governor Mulls Marijuana Decriminalization -- NORML PR

New Jersey "Drug" Testing Proposals Generate Resistance

Prohibitionist UK -- Not Holland -- Leads Europe In Illegal Drug Production.
But This Does Not Fit the Prohibitionist Party Line

Postings For June 23, 1999.

Congressman Mica Shares His Ignorance About Marijuana. He Has Plenty To Spare.
Careless In Namedropping

Representative Mink Shares Her Knowledge of Medical Marijuana. She Has Little To Spare.
– With Friends Like These…

"They should have called the hearing ‘Medical Marijuana Madness.’"
A Great Op-ed

Hemp Museum Opens In Kentucky

Postings For June 22, 1999.

New York Times Reports that Questions Were Raised About Prohibition,
But Does Not Examine The Issues.

The Miami Herald Does Not Question Prohibitionist Propaganda As It Reports On Hearings

Postings For June 21, 1999.

Unequal Injustice in California:
The View From Dennis Peron’s Cannabis Farm

In San Francisco More Clubs Spring Up to Fill Need
Left By Closing Of Peron’s Club

Applications By California Groups To Grow Marijuana For The Feds
Show How Weird Things Really Are – See The Punch Line at The End

LA Judge Ignores Both Prop 215 And The 1^st Amendment:
Not Only Convicts Patient, But Also Orders Him Not to Talk About Medical Marijuana
As A Condition of Probation

Another One We Could Not Make Up:
Judge Who Sentenced Medical Marijuana Activist Chavez To Six Years
Arrested In DWI. Three Times Legal Blood/Alcohol Limit

Postings For June 18, 1999.

"False Evidence" Is The Foundation Of Marijuana Prohibition,
Not Just One Hawaiian Hemp Seed Case

Canadian Mayor Wants His Co-op to Be An Official Supplier of Medical Marijuana

Former New Haven Chief Says We Ask Police To Do The Impossible

ACLU Urges Congress to Reconsider Destructive Drug War Strategy

Postings For June 17, 1999.

The Drug Czar’s Testimony On "The Drug Legalization Movement In America" Has Three Parts:
Lie About The Anti-Prohibitionist Movement; Lie About Marijuana; Lie About The Netherlands.
With A Little Lying About Me.

Oregon Judge Forbids State-Licensed Marijuana Patient From Using Pot While On Probation,
Sentences Her To 10 Days In Jail; City Supervisor Advocates San Francisco Hemp Gardens -- NORML PR

Postings For June 16, 1999.

Czar Joined By NIDA Head Leshner In Lying About Marijuana At Hearings;
An Appetizer Before The Buffet

Testimony Of NORML Director David Boaz At The Hearings on Drug Policy Reform Movement

LA Times Editorial Calls For Alcohol to Be Added To Czar’s Propaganda Campaign

More Coverage For Canadian Senator’s Call For the Legalization of Marijuana.

Postings For June 15, 1999.

Committee Investigating Anti-Prohibitionist Movement
Rescinds Invitation For NORML To "Testify." But NORML Still Tells Congress:
"Legalize Marijuana! There Is Nothing Wrong With Responsible Marijuana Use By Adults."

Conservative Canadian Senator Calls For Commission To Review All Drug Laws:
"Should marijuana be legalized?" Article and Text Of Resolution

New Zealand Parliament’s Health Select Committee Repeats Call
For "The Government to review the appropriateness of existing policy on cannabis
and its use and reconsider the legal status of cannabis."

Postings For June 14, 1999.

Documentary About Jack Herer -- "Emperor of Hemp" -- To Be Released on Video

Review Of The "Emperor of Hemp"
– A Valuable Tool For The Movement That Really Is Fun To Watch.

"War Demands More Hemp,"
Says The June Issue of The Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife

Canadian Press Links DEAland Military To Closing Of Vancouver’s Cannabis Caf�;
Narco-imperialism At Work. Canada Should Issue Its Own Declaration Of Independence.

Postings For June 11, 1999.

Portland Police Raid Homes Of Owners Of Portland Indoor-Growing Supply Store.
Seize Computers, But Make No Arrests. Police Contradict Their Own Testimony.

Why Alcohol Warnings Aren’t Likely To Be Included In The Czar’s Propaganda…
Another One We Couldn’t Make Up

American Journal Of Epidemiology Report That Long-Term Use Of Marijuana
Does Not Lead To A Decline In Mental Function Got Minimal Coverage,
Perhaps Because Scores Actually Fell More Among Non-Users Than Among Heavy Users!

Check Out the Drug War Clock: "Hurry Up, Please. It’s Time."

Postings For June 10, 1999.

Canadian Health Minister Issues Call To All Pot Growers To Send Him Their Resumes.
In The Meantime, He Is Going To Try To Get Marijuana From DEAland.
Maybe He Will Have Better Luck Than Our Own Researchers.
Two AIDS Patients Get Exemptions.

News Release From Health Canada
On Research Plan for the Use of Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes.

RCMP Report On Marijuana Trafficking Contradicts The Party Line
About Marijuana Smuggling From Canada To DEAland. Far More Goes North Than South

UK Drug Czar Says Marijuana Can Help Patients;
Georgia DUI Law Targeting Marijuana Smokers Found Unconstitutional -- NORML PR

Two Stories About Cops In Trouble Tell Us Much About Our Priorities

Postings For June 9, 1999.

If You Have Any Doubt That Marijuana Prohibition Is A Form Of Insanity,
Read This Story About A Flower Show Published In The London Times

Tests Of Medical Marijuana On MS Patients In UK Will Begin Within Two Weeks.
Canada Looks At UK "Inhaler"

Consolidated Growers And Processors Delivers 100 Tons Of Hemp Seed To Manitoba
Via World’s Largest Cargo Plane

Is Racial Discrimination Sustained By The Drug War? By Cliff Thornton
"The culture of punishment has developed with and sustains the drug war."

Postings For June 8, 1999.

A Proposal For A Rational Allocation Of Drug Education Budgets
Based On The Harm Done By Various Substances -- Analysis By Richard Cowan

Drug Czar Returns To Party Line,
Opposes Including Ads Warning Kids About Alcohol

Bennett and Cuomo of The Partnership for A Marijuana-Free America
Claim They Don’t Have Enough Money To Tell The Truth About Alcohol.
But They Have Plenty To Lie About Marijuana.

The Drug Czar’s Own Web Site Says,
"drug prevention programs are more likely to succeed if they also address underage drinking."

"The Partnership is comprised primarily of advertising professionals,
who work for the very ad firms that produce the alcohol advertising
that the drug czar’s media campaign would counterbalance, if it included alcohol counter-ads.
The partnership was founded on alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical money."

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:
Media Reports Decry Effects Of Illegal Drugs Such As Marijuana, Cocaine And Heroin.
"They don’t have anywhere near the effect that alcohol does on the unborn baby."

Postings For June 7, 1999.

The 50^th Anniversary of The Publishing Of Orwell’s 1984
Analysis By Richard Cowan

Mothers Against Drunk Driving Denounce Partnership For A Marijuana-Free America
For Opposing Warnings About Alcohol -- PR Disaster For Pharmaceutical Lobby Grows

Swedish Prohibitionists Denounce Body Shop And Anita Roddick:
"Demands for legalisation of cannabis is not an example of moral, ethical and social responsibility.
On the contrary, it shows a clear lack of moral, ethical and social responsibility."

Postings For June 4, 1999.

The Dutch Outlaw Growing Marijuana Seeds, But Not Selling Them
-- Analysis By Richard Cowan

Prohibition Provides Practice For A Police State In Wisconsin:
"5 counties involved in still-secretive highway safety initiative."

Outrageous Conduct?
More On The DEA’s Use Of Unstable Woman To Frame Husband For Growing Marijuana:
"His mother’s drinking increased dramatically when she got involved with the DEA."

"From a safe house and sanctuary in the rain forest of British Columbia."
The Lengths To Which DEAland Will Go To Ruin One Person’s Life

Postings For June 3, 1999.

Nearly 100 UK MPs Support Bill To Legalize Medical Marijuana;
Florida High Court Dismisses State’s Challenge To Medical Marijuana Necessity Defense -- NORML PR

Dead Plants Returned To California Cancer Patient Under Court Order In Placer County