Time: Tue Sep 30 09:28:12 1997
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
To: Multiple recipients of list <drctalk@drcnet.org>
Subject: Medical Marijuana Initiatives a Mistake!
Treason is defined in Article III of the
U.S. Constitution. What you have described
here is not treason, as that term is strictly
defined. So, the use of voter initiatives
could never be considered treason, in a legal
sense.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
At 05:00 AM 9/30/97 EDT, you wrote:
>The rise in the popularity of
>Initiatives limited solely to
>the medical use of cannabis
>is a grave mistake and could
>be considered treason!
>
>There is a problem when big
>money from outside one's
>state enters the arena.
>
> 1. They alienate the local
>activists.
>
> 2. They write their own version
>of what's good for a particular
>state. ( An example is the fascist
>provision in the Washington Medical
>Marijuana ballot measure, in which
>anyone who commits a violent crime
>under the influence receives NO
>parole. How stupid! So a person
>who is sober gets parole.
>Sounds like appeasement?
>
>Dr. Lester Grinspoon
>author of "Marihuana the
>Forbidden Medicine" states:
>
> " The criminalization of marihuana
>use in general and the politics that
>make it legally unavailable as a medicine
>are two problems with the same cause and
>the same solution. Marihuana is caught
>in a dual web of regulations--those that
>control prescription drugs in general and
>the special criminal laws that control
>psychoactive substances. these mutually
>reinforcing laws establish a set of social
>categories that strangle its medical potential.
>THE ONLY WAY IS TO CUT THE KNOT BY GIVING
>CANNABIS THE SAME STATUS AS ALCOHOL--LEGALIZING
>IT FOR ALL USES AND REMOVING IT ENTIRELY FROM
>THE MEDICAL AND CRIMINAL CONTROL SYSTEMS.
> Opponents of medical marihuana sometimes
>say that its advocates are insincere and are
>only using medicine as a wedge to open the
>way for recreational use. Anyone who has studied
>the history of desperate efforts to obtain legal
>for suffering people knows that this is false.
>The attitude falsely ascribed to advocates of
>medical marihauna is actually a mirror image
>of the government's attitude. The government
>is unwilling to admit that marihuana can be
>a safe and effective medicine because of a
>stubborn commitment to wild exaggeration
>of its dangers when used for other purposes.
>Far from believing that medical availability
>of marihuana would open the way to other uses,
>we take the view THAT FREE AVAILABILITY OF
>CANNABIS MAY BE THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE ITS
>JUDICIOUS MEDICAL USE POSSIBLE. Marihuana
>should be available for use in much the
>same way alcohol is now available. As noted
>earlier, cannabis conclusively lost its
>medical status as an almost incidental
>effect of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937,
>which was designed took prevent "recreational"
>use. The full potential of this remarkable
>substance, including its full medical potential,
>will be realized only when we end that regime
>of prohibition established two generations ago.
> --- from "Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine"
> Dr. Lester Grinspoon MD
> James B Bakalar
>
>We must wake up and fight not let
>ourselves be taken off to the internment
>Prisons. I have been told it took two
>years for the people in the Warsaw
>ghetto to stand up the the NAZI's even
>though they knew they were being carted
>off on trains to the death camps!
>10,000 volunteered to fight one night
>and the next day only 2,000 showed
>up.
> STOP PROHIBITION BEFORE
> IT STOPS YOU!
> ABOLISH ALL PROHIBITION
> BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
> Rev. John Brown
>Let us pray for end end to
>this evil war.
>
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