restore Wed, 10 Mar 1999 Volume 1 : Number 74 In this issue: New Videos on web:Politically Incorrect,Cannabis Conspiracy,Bush and Clinton OREGON: Lawmaker takes aim at marijuana law & OMMA update grandfathering med Mj, About the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International Association Cannabis and Herpes help Fw: annual drug policy conference on May 12-15 in D.C. MN: US MN: Senate Gives Hemp Bill Preliminary OK Re: What happened in Philly last week Bill Maher show Federal Judge Rules Author Peter McWilliams Cannot Use Medical Marijuana Even to Save His Life Laguna mulls move from 'zero tolerance' Re: MAP: Bill Maher show Re: Bill Maher show Re: OREGON: Lawmaker takes aim at marijuana law & OMMA update Saving Peter McWilliams Life..NOW! Re: OMMA update Fwd: Holy War on Gays [and drugs]----Rolling Stoned Fwd: ltrs/lat: More on Culture War, Church and State New Zealand: Pot Smoking Still A Crime And Pipes Banned MN: Hemp Bill Faces Tough Opposition In House Fwd: Re: New Videos on web:Politically Incorrect,Cannabis Re: OMMA update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:50:13 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: New Videos on web:Politically Incorrect,Cannabis Conspiracy,Bush and Clinton Message-ID: <4.1.19990309110415.00a92e20@mail.olywa.net> CRRH is proud to announce that we have several new videos streaming on-line for your free viewing, using the free Real Player. These 4 videos are not yet linked through our web site indexes, but will be soon. They are viewable now at the following web sites. "Politically Incorrect, with Bill Maher." This March 8, 1999 show is a debate about marijuana. Singer Dave Matthews and comedienne Elayne Boosler join Bill Maher in debating in favor of cannabis against Joseph Califano and Earl Jackson. 17 minutes, 19 seconds. The video is located at: "Cannabis Conspiracy," the film your government doesn't want you to see. This a hour-long documentary about cannabis in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and features the 10th Annual Cannabis Cup competition. This psychedelic production interviews and tours a number of coffeeshops and cannabis seed business proprietors, including Ben Dronkers of Sensi Seeds, Arjan of The Green House and Soma. Also featuring famed reggae star and rastafarian singer, Rita Marley. The video is at . Bill Clinton's 1992 statement that he has tried marijuana but did not inhale. Of course, we don't believe Clinton actually inhaled anymore than we believe he had sex with that women. This 8 second clip has been encoded for web browser using a 28K modem and for those with a very fast ethernet connection of 500K or more . An excerpt from George Bush's 1990 speech escalating the drug war and doubling prison space and prosecutors. This frightening and prophetic 39 second clip is available for 28K modems at and for fast ethernet connections at . CRRH is gearing up for our petition drive for the Cannabis Tax Act (CTA). The CTA will regulate and tax the sale of cannabis to adults, allow adults to grow their own, allow doctors to prescribe untaxed cannabis to patients through pharmacies, license farmers to take advantage and profit from cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp. We need your donations to put our initiative on the ballot in Oregon and Washington. We need to raise money now. Please donate to CRRH by mailing a check or money order to the address below or linking to our secure web credit card donation site from . We desperately need your contributions now to meet our expenses and to enable us to pay our hard-working petitioners 50 cents per signature on the CTA. The CTA was designed to be upheld in the inevitable court challenge it will face after passage. We need to raise at least US$50,000 to fund our petition drive in Oregon and US$100,000 to pay petitioners to qualify the CTA initiative in Washington State. If you want to see cannabis regulated so adults aren't being subjected to urinalysis, losing their jobs and being arrested, this is the best chance in the world today to do so. If you want to see industrial hemp restored to its rightful place in commerce and freed from the unreasonable limitations on THC content that limit hemp's ability to produce seeds and fiber, the CTA is the bill to do it. Please donate and help us put this on the ballot in the Northwest USA right away! Thank you. Yours truly, D. Paul Stanford We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:01:45 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: OREGON: Lawmaker takes aim at marijuana law & OMMA update Message-ID: <4.1.19990309120030.00a9d680@mail.olywa.net> From Dr. Rick Bayer, a sponsor of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act: Dear OMMA supporters I cannot find HB 3052 on the 'net yet but it may show up at http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills.html. This bill is the attempt by the Republican controlled legislature to gut the OMMA, that Oregonians just passed. The Oregon Health Division OMMA Rules advisory committee met today and things are heading in a reasonable direction. There will be a public hearing at the Oregon State Office Building (800 NE Oregon in Portland) on April 15 from 2 PM to 5 PM. It will probably be in room 120 but ask at the front desk when you arrive to be sure. This will probably be the last public meeting before the rules are ready by May 1. If you are interested in shaping the rules that effect patients, please show up after you read sections 4, 12, & 14 in the law. The topic will be limited to 4, 12, & 14 and possibly, "What is a mature mj plant?" Follow the links from http://www.teleport.com/~omr to the full text of the OMMA. You can also write the OHD to get up to date minutes of the meeting when they are ready and the OHD has a website where you can find out their e-mail, etc. The relationship between the federal government and physicians concerning the OMMA remains cryptic and confusing and the following is long discussion on that. You may wish to skip the rest of my part of this e-mail and just go to the AP article below if you are not interested in the doctor part of the OMMA. I will explain to you my understanding but this is NOT to be construed in any way as legal advice and I am not a lawyer (disclaimer number one). This is ONLY my political opinion after careful deliberation and many discussions. The feds are paralyzed by politics. They were pit bulls in 1997 after Calif Prop 215 and got doctors angry so doctors and patients sued the feds and won and injunction (the case is still not final - see http://www.maps.org - I think that is where the "Conant et al versus McCaffrey et al suit" is). If the feds "chill out" and give doctors "pre-clearance", then they are "soft on drugs". Don't expect a revelation from our nation's Capitol soon. In fact, don't expect anything. Nevertheless, several of us have discussed the legal implications with experienced attorneys, including the one who litigated for doctors after Prop 215, the Calif med mj law, in 1997 and now is with national ACLU. An attorney from the Californian Med Assoc (CMA) also accompanied him to Oregon. She, the CMA attorney, is on the Calif state task force to implement Prop 215, the Calif med mj law, and has had personal meetings with Barry McCaffrey's staff about Prop 215. The CMA supports rescheduling mj so that doctors can prescribe mj and do research. There appears to be a low risk way for physicians to participate in the OMMA and that is for them to not do anything other than what they already do. If they only see patients, diagnose debilitating illnesses, discuss what treatments might help, record the office visit in the chart, and give a copy of the chart note to the patient, they are *not* aiding a patient to get marijuana. They are only practicing medicine as per usual and exercising First Amendment Rights by discussing what treatment might help their patient. The chart note needs to legibly list the debilitating illness and say "medical marijuana might help" (see the OMMA, in section 4). Under no circumstances should a doctor *aid* or help a patient to directly get mj - otherwise doctors, just like anyone else, risk possible *criminal* charges. CRIMINAL - not DEA administrative risk - IS THE REAL (albeit small) RISK FOR DOCTORS. That means doctors should never fill out forms for buyer's clubs, etc. or forms for anything that might provide a "ticket" for a patient to get mj. At a slightly higher risk, doctors can fill out an Oregon Health Division (OHD) form for patients and doctors (again, a doctor should *never* fill out ANY form for the sole purpose of aiding a patient to get marijuana). The OHD form is not to get mj but is to exempt patients from Oregon law as per the OMMA. It is clearly stated on the (draft) OHD form that doctors are not "prescribing mj". The concern about the OHD form and federal risk for doctors is that by filling out the OHD form under OMMA, "is the doctor helping a patient to *retain* mj?" - is this close to *aiding*? - or is all of this making me paranoid? The lawyer representing the California Medical Association (CMA) told me no doctor has been prosecuted by the feds for following the Calif Prop 215. One got some phone calls from the DEA and it made the Calif medical journals and papers. Many think the feds have better things to do than waste resources looking foolish but who can know? Washington state and Alaska also have med mj laws effective now so the feds are unlikely to want to conduct a war on doctors in Calif, Oregon, Wash, & Alaska. The *administrative* risk to doctors from the DEA for "legitimate medical purpose" is probably minimal with Reno (Justice) over-ruling Constantine (DEA) on Death With Dignity (and the "legitimate medical purpose" phrase when Constantine went after Oregon doctors DEA license in 1997 after Measure 51 was defeated). In addition, Oregon doctors could almost certainly win an injunction like the California doctors/patients did if the feds had a stupidity attack and tried to rob doctors and patients of First Amendment Rights in Oregon. The feds lost that game in Calif to the lawyer who is now with the national ACLU and is a source for much of my understanding of the situation. As you all know, our ACLU has an impressive track record serving "their client", the Bill of Rights, and particularly our beloved First Amendment. In summary, doctors should only be doctors. The forms from the OHD will be out soon (May 1). Disclaimer again: I am not a lawyer and I am not giving legal advice but sharing my political understanding of my research, experience, and recent meetings discussing our new OMMA. I know this seems complicated because it is - blame the feds. Nevertheless, for some of you, this is important, and the above is the best that I can explain it at this time. Please write to me if you have questions. No, I won't call your doctor but I will discuss what I understand and give them a phone number for the ACLU lawyer in Connecticut (or the CMA lawyer in Calif) if s/he wants to call or write to me and (for at least the third disclaimer notice), I can't give legal advice or make guarantees. Finally, there is also a resolution in the Oregon House sponsored by the Voter Power PAC calling for our Oregon legislature to tell the feds to legalize cannabis as medicine (just like morphine). There is also a bill, sponsored by Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in the US House for medical cannabis. There is a lot happening but when the Oregon legislative session ends this summer, we hope to have preserved the (or close to the) law that Oregon voters passed in November. Sorry for the long e-mail but this "OMMA doctor thing" has been on many people's minds and this is the best summary I can provide right now. Obviously this and the OMMA are still evolving. As always, thanks for your support. Rick Bayer, MD, FACP 6800 SW Canyon Drive Portland, OR 97225 503-292-1035 (voice) 503-297-0754 (fax) mailto:ricbayer@teleport.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - LAWMAKER TAKES AIM AT MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEASURE By AMALIE YOUNG The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Four months after Oregon voters approved a measure allowing medical use of marijuana, a Republican lawmaker is teaming up with Oregon's police chiefs to make changes in the law. Rep. Kevin Mannix said he thinks the law allows "anyone and everyone" to smoke marijuana -- not just those who say they need it to ease the symptoms of cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses. "Not all initiative measures are as skillfully crafted as they should be," the Salem lawmaker said. "I want to get a good, clean law on the books that will not lead to years of litigation." Supporters of the medical marijuana law said Mannix and the police chiefs are trying to gut the law, not improve it. "This is an effort to thwart the will of voters," said Geoff Sugerman, a political consultant who worked on the Measure 67 campaign last fall. As the law is now written, those with debilitating diseases can use marijuana with a doctor's prescription. They can grow up to three mature plants and four immature plants at a time and can have one smokeable ounce of marijuana in their possession. Under the law, anyone caught with marijuana can use the "affirmative defense" that it is medically necessary and the burden is on prosecutors to prove otherwise. But Mannix said if his measure, HB3052, passes, no one would be able to automatically use the medical defense if they were caught with more than the amount of marijuana allowed under the law. With that provision, Mannix said he is targeting marijuana growers or dealers who might try to hide behind the medical pot law. Supporters of the law said those accused of exceeding the limits might simply need more marijuana to ease their symptoms. Besides, they said, there are enough safeguards in the law to prevent large-scale growing operations, and they are worried the bill represents a first step toward dismantling the law. Liver cancer patient Tom Thompson of Portland said his life has changed since he began smoking marijuana three or four times a day. Thompson, 58, said doctors told him two years ago that he had only a few months to live. Smoking marijuana is what has helped him get this far, he said. "It doesn't take me away from reality," Thompson said. "It makes it so I can get along with reality." Kevin Campbell, who lobbies for the Oregon Police Chiefs Association, didn't return several phone calls on the matter last week. However, other law enforcement officials have said there's little evidence to show marijuana has medical value and that the marijuana law is a backdoor attempt to legalize pot outright. Another provision of the law that Mannix is targeting requires police to preserve and later return the marijuana if it turns out the person has a legitimate medical need for it. However, Sugerman said that despite what critics say, it was never intended that police agencies would have to go to all the trouble of watering and otherwise caring for seized marijuana. The law simply says that police must return seized lights and other growing equipment as well as all smokeable marijuana if it turns out the person has a legitimate medical need for it, he said. Sugerman said that rather than immediately trying to change the law, lawmakers should step back and see how legalizing marijuana has helped ease the suffering of people with debilitating illnesses. "This is all about law enforcement coming in and wanting to have tighter reins on a law that voters passed," he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:07:46 -0900 From: TerraCore Communications To: restore@crrh.org Subject: grandfathering med Mj, Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990309010746.00741798@terracore.com> After reading the interesting idea of grandfathering med MJ I scoured the web looking for a labeling example and small article I had seen before. I found it at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/vbchmed1.htm Its interesting because you can see a picture of an actual bottle of American Cannabis Extract, 1929 FLUID EXTRACTS AND TINCTURES CANNABIS, U.S.P. (American Cannabis): Fluid Extract No. 598 .......................(Alcohol 80%).. 5.00 Fluid Extract Cannabis, in common with other of our products that cannot be accurately assayed by chemical means, is tested physiologically and made to conform to a standard that has been found to be, in practice, reliable. Every package is stamped with the date of manufacture. Physiologic standardization was introduced by Parke, Davis & Co. This fluid extract is prepared from Cannabis sativa grown in America. Extensive pharmacological and clinical tests have shown that its medicinal action cannot be distinguished from that of the fluid made from imported East Indian cannabis. Introduced to the medical profession by us. Average dose, 1 1.2 mins. (0.1 cc). Narcotic, analgesic, sedative. For quarter-pint bottles add 80c. per pint to the price given for pints From the Parke, Davis & Company 1929-1930 physicians' catalog. A thorough explanation from The British Pharmaceutical Codex: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/brit34.htm (no photo) ****************************** RESEARCH MED MJ ON THE INTERNET AND GET LED TO BOGUS INFORMATION While researching med mj on excite.com I noticed all the banner ads were for anti-mj foundations like http://www.projectknow.com/know_it_all/teenstart.html and http://www.drugfreeamerica.org Probably others as well but I didn't feel like investigating all their BS. It seems the powers-that-be have decided internet search engines display web sites that contain too much truth. Now when somebody researches medical MJ on the web the colorful flashing banner ads will draw them away from legitimate web sites with useful information and pull them instead into sugar-coated mindless garbage like this: If you're watching TV and marijuana is mentioned, take advantage of the opportunity to say something like "Do you know what marijuana is? It's a bad drug that can hurt your body." If you child has more questions, answer them. If not, let it go. Short, simple comments, initiated by you and repeated often enough will get the message across. ----- TerraCore Communications Affordable Website Hosting and Internet Consuluting Since 1994 http://www.terracore.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:26:58 +0000 From: webbooks@paston.co.uk (CLCIA) To: restore@crrh.org Subject: About the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International Association Message-ID: <19990309112705Z844104-4461+11@red.paston.co.uk> Hi, We believe that the use of cannabis ought to be a matter of choice, not of= law. Our demands will only be satisfied when cannabis is fully legalised for all it uses, worlwide, and all cannabis-only 'crime' prisoners released. We operate on a street level and are also active on the www. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please mail me on:=20 webbooks@paston.co.uk This list is a manually operated list - we select items to forward to you. You will receive about 10 messages a week - news items and letters deserving replies - news of events, news of discoveries, studies, reports, legal changes and court cases. We do this in the hope that you will write at least one letter a week to the newspaper containing the article or letter which attracts your atttention most, CLCIA : The Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International Association: was formed in Norwich, UK, in 1992. This was as a result of a group of us becoming outraged at the continued arrest of people for smoking cannabis and the lack of any sort of consumer protection - quality had fallen rapidly. We were also pretty disgruntled at the lack of action from the then fading legalsie Cannabis Campaign. We determined to concentrate our efforts on educating the public and the authorities, and forcing the issue into the political agenda by fighting elections. Our first task was to write to all the MP's, Bishops of the UK and Arch-Bishops of the world, many of the world's Governments, local doctors, bars and clubs, and all of the press, putting the case for cannabis. At this stage we had little support from those who are supposed to be protecting our lives and our Rights. However, amongst the general populace, in the UK at least, we saw our efforts rewarded by a change in attitudes.=20 Our membership stands at over 500, about half of whom are in Norwich. Judging on comments we have received and the excellent election resuts achieved, our level of support is much higher. We started in Norwich with 6 people, now we have over 250 members and very many more supporters. What we can do here, maybe YOU and your friends can do THERE! We are conducting a survey amongst legalisers to discover the prefferred model of legalisation. At the moment 59% want the 'cabbage' model, that is legalisation with no restrictions beyond those applied to food and soft drinks. Amongst our members who have responded over half disagree with the statement 'cannabis is a drug', 100% consider cannabis is beneficial to some people. The general feeling amongst us is that cannabis is better compared to cabbages than alcohol or even coffee, and the law should treat cannabis accordingly. Licensed premises, prescriptions etc are not required for the sale or use of coffee. Coffee is undeniably a drug and is bothe more addictive and more toxic than cannabis (from which, incidentally, nobody has ever died). http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/poll.html CLCIA is a PRESSURE GROUP - NOT a political party - hence members of political parties are invited to join and do so in the knowledge that they are not violating their own parety's rules. If you support legalisation, please join http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/join.html We invite you to become ACTIVELY involved in fighting this unjust, immoral and possibly illegal prohibition. In particular we are keen to be part of a network of campaigners around the world, so we can all act in unison and also boost moral by communicating and sharing in successes along the way. One thing you can do RIGHT NOW is WRITE NOW to your MP. When you join 2 pounds of the 5 pound membership is banked towards deposits for Legalise Cannabis election candidates. =20 You may know that we nominated Howard Marks in the last UK General Election, 1997. Howard stood in four constituencies at once. He received an average of 1% of the vote; not a great number but enough to attract attention to our cause. Since then there have been some startling developments in the UK - the Independent on Sunday march and conference, the Lindesmith Institute / Release conference, the House of Lords report, and numerous TV, radio and press articles and phone-ins. The following year our candidate Danny Tungate received a staggering 7.6% of the vote in the local elections in Norwich. Putting up a candidate is not as difficult as many people imagine. In local elctions in the UK all you need is the cost of the leaflets to put through each door in the ward, and 8 people who are registered to vote within the ward. If you want to do this and help spread the message, please mail us and we will try to help. Also, whether or not you have your own legalise candidate to vote for, see http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/vote.html Since we founded the campaign in 1992, support has grown and public attitudes have changed. We know that we have been a part of that. Locally we now have over 250 members and we know that this could happen anywhere where there are a handful of activists willing to donate a little of their time and / or money to advertising themselves as a local autonomous group. We will help where we can. Such a group can be large or small. Those of you with e-mail access can use it to pass on information, news and in particular concerned with letter campaigns. There are some sample letters and hints on writing letters together with e-mail addresses of the world's press, on the web site. http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/letters.html There is a list of many e-mail addresses for press around the world, at: http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/e_press.html If you can add to this list please let us know. We hope that you will express your opinions as well as respond to articles which you get to see. There is a list of the e-mail addresses of many UK MPs at: http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/mpemail.html. Keep up to date with world news on cannabis by visiting our news page at http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/newspage.html You can bookmark this page and also register with a free url-minder service. Lists of activists groups can be found at http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/activists.html and lists of useful addresses at http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/address.html There are many more links at http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/linkspage.html MAY DAY IS JAY DAY This year, 1999, we will see the largest ever pro-cannabis / Antiprohibition gathering ever, in London. On May Day, May 1st, people from all over the UK will gather for a cannabis celebration, a march, speakers, bands and stalls. We would encourage you to get as many people as possible to come along - why not hire a coach and pass out small flyers to a targeted group? You can keep up to date with developments at http://www.schmoo.co.uk/mayday.html you can check out the new May Day is Jay Day stickers and others at http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/stickers.html If you are interested in joining a cannabis hemp discussion list based in the UK, then the one for you is: UK Cannabis Internet Activists (UKCIA). Members of this list have varying opinions about preferred avenues for legal reform of cannabis laws but are all agreed that the present situation is wrong. To join UKCIA list send an e-mail to ukcia-l-request@mimir.com put no subject and include the words "subscribe" in your message. If you are interested in the best value for money news sheet in the UK, try cc-news. This monthy newsheet of 16 pages costs just over 1 pound on subscription. In its discreet format it can be read anywhere and it is ideal for anyone who does not have internet access or the time to read many articles from the www. =20 For more details see http://www.schmoo.co.uk/ccnews.html If you live in the UK you may find that we already have a local contact not too far from you. Please get in touch, get to know each other and work together. If there is not a contact in your area, how about becoming one yourself - pass information from the net to the public. We are very keen to see the formation of local groups all over the world. 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Campaigners' Guide : http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/index.html e-mail : webbooks@paston.co.uk Tel : +44 (0)1603 625780=20 "The use of cannabis ought to be a matter of choice, not of law." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:14:30 +0000 From: webbooks@paston.co.uk (CLCIA) To: ukcia-l@mimir.com Subject: Cannabis and Herpes Message-ID: <19990309121436Z844155-4458+19@red.paston.co.uk> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:37:05 -0500 (EST) From: ccross@webtv.net (C. Cross) From: restore@crrh.org Subject: MMJ - herpes Like rosemary, sage and olive oil, herbal cannabis is highly useful in the kitchen, the bath, and the bedroom as well as the sickroom, where it yields a stunning array of effective and practical uses. Here's one you may not have heard of: -=-=-=- Dear Chris, Riding to work a few months ago I felt the unmistakable, painful announcement of an arriving cold-sore on my lower lip. As the day wore on the pain gradually intensified. Swelling and redness were evident by early afternoon. The throbbing became a persistent distraction. By the ride home, I just wanted to bite the whole damn lip off. I knew from past experience that I had an embarrassing week ahead of me nursing a raw, swollen, painful sore on my lip followed by another eek or two of an unsightly scar and redness. I would have chewed mud if I thought it would help. I remembered reading that cannabis was said to be a healing herb with many uses, so I inconspicuously reached into my stash and broke off a small bud which I moistened by chewing and pressed against the sore like a compress. To my amazement, the pain subsided within the first two minutes. It absolutely disappeared within 20 minutes. Within an hour the swelling was completely down. I went home, slept well and had no further symptoms, swelling, redness, pain or sign of that bug since. None! I would like to know of others experience with healing and cannabis. [name witheld by request] ccross ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:25:54 -0400 From: Robert Melamede To: Subject: help Message-ID: I have 2 years of a tapes from a weekly,life, call-in anti-drug war TV show broadcast on cable access. CCN-the Cannabis Cable Network. All the relavent issues of medical marihuana, hemp, law enforcement etc are discussed.The show is very popular and I am sure it would be usefull to broadcast copies on cable access stations around the country. Lets do something. Bob Melamede, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 802 656-8501 http://www.uvm.edu/~rmelamed/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:58:44 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Fw: annual drug policy conference on May 12-15 in D.C. Message-ID: <4.1.19990309123715.00ab8820@mail.olywa.net> -----Original Message----- From: Marijuana Policy Project To: MPPupdates@igc.org Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 10:19 PM Subject: annual drug policy conference on May 12-15 in D.C. >If you are interested in lobbying your members of Congress on the >medicinal marijuana issue, networking with drug policy activists from >around the world, or learning more about marijuana policy issues or >other aspects of the drug war, the Marijuana Policy Project recommends >that you come to Washington, D.C., on May 12-15 for the Drug Policy >Foundation's annual conference. > >MPP will be helping to coordinate the legislative training sessions and >lobbying day, as well as participating in various conference panels and >workshops. Please see below for conference details. > >*********************************************************************** > >The Drug Policy Foundation's >12th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform >May 12-15, 1999, Bethesda, Maryland >Contact: Whitney A. Taylor or Kerry Hopkins >4455 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite B-500, Washington, DC 20008-2328 >phone: 202-537-5005; fax: 202-537-3007; e-mail: conferences@dpf.org > >DPF's Annual Conference brings together doctors, lawyers, policy-makers, >health care providers, academics, activists, and concerned citizens to discuss >all aspects of drug policy reform. Topics range from medicinal marijuana to >heroin maintenance, civil asset forfeiture to decriminaliztion, and prevention >and education programs to harm >reduction. > >If you believe that the war on drugs is not working, join the conference >sponsors and attendees at the 12th International Conference >on Drug Policy Reform. > >Dates to Remember in 1999 >March 1 Early Bird Registration Due >April 1 Scholarship Requests Due >April 7 Student Paper Entries Due >May 11 Evening Legislative Training >May 12 Legislative Training & Capitol Hill Visits / Technical > Assistance Sessions / Welcoming Reception >May 13 Opening Conference Sessions >May 14 Sessions & Luncheon >May 15 Sessions & Awards Ceremony > >Conference Registration >Basic Registration: Early Bird: $225; After March 1: $275 >Conference Package: Early Bird: $300; After March 1: $350 >Conference Package includes: registration, keynote luncheon, awards >ceremony, and manual. > >The Drug Policy Foundation is a nonprofit membership organization that >promotes reasoned alternatives to the war on drugs. > >For more information, visit DPF online at http://www.dpf.org. > >THE DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION >New Ways of Thinking About Drugs Since 1986 >4455 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite B-500 >Washington, DC 20008 >phone: 202-537-5005 >fax: 202-537-3007 >e-mail: conferences@dpf.org > >*********************************************************************** > We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:59:11 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: MN: US MN: Senate Gives Hemp Bill Preliminary OK Message-ID: <4.1.19990309123634.00ab6d10@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: compassion23@geocities.com (Frank S. World) Pubdate: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN) Copyright: 1999 Star Tribune Feedback: http://www.startribune.com/stonline/html/userguide/letform.html Website: http://www.startribune.com/ Forum: http://talk.startribune.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi Author: Robert Whereatt SENATE GIVES HEMP BILL PRELIMINARY OK Industrial hemp could be grown as an agricultural crop on experimental or demonstration plots under legislation that the Senate gave preliminary approval to Monday. Industrial hemp can be used in the manufacture of paper, yarn, rope, sacks and other sisal hemp products. Advocates say it could be an alternative crop for farmers. Under the bill, a farmer would have to be registered by the state agriculture commissioner to grow industrial hemp and would have to specify the location of the experimental plot. Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, who represents a rural northwestern Minnesota district, is the bill's sponsor. Moe, DFL-Erskine, said hemp contains almost no tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is what creates the "high" among marijuana smokers. The 1998 Legislature approved a bill that would have authorized a study of the crop, but then-Gov. Arne Carlson vetoed it. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) opposed the bill. This year, Gov. Jesse Ventura favors the legislation. Public Safety Commissioner Charlie Weaver said the BCA continues to have concerns about distinguishing between the industrial hemp plant and its cousin, the marijuana plant. "I think they're legitimate," he said of the BCA concerns. Weaver said he and the BCA have similar concerns about legislation that would permit use of a small amount of marijuana by people with certain diseases, including cancer, if prescribed by a doctor. "It's a question of just making sure we don't open the floodgates," he said. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Derek Rea We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:01:53 EST From: JohnG101@aol.com To: Kennedy@deluz.com Subject: Re: What happened in Philly last week Message-ID: <11729baf.36e57e31@aol.com> Joe, What happened is both encouraging and discouraging. Mainstream Media all but totally blacked out the event, I think a small mention that it took place was in the Usa today. I was unable to attend, But I have an idea of what went down. In the first court date the judge asked the government how they could take the position that Marijuana was not medicine, when they supplied Marijuana as medicine to a chosen few? The governments answer to this quandary was to shut down the compassionate use program completely. The judge last week asked them to explain the reasons why this was done and to prove that the shut down was not for political purposes or to thwart this case. I think they have some thirty days to answer the judges questions. The Judge is certainly on the side of People in this case. I imagine that the governments next move will to be dismissal (or political assasination) of the judge. Since the governments position is indefensable and more and more people are becoming aware of the situation though alternative media, that political turmoil is on the horizon. We must keep up the fight, spread the word and remove those in office before a real revolution starts, because the governments present position of not only ignoring the suffering of it's constituents, but enhancing prolonging and even causing more agony to them will lead to a disolution of this country in the near future. What can we do? I appeal to all the masses to write a letter to the president and congress today !!! president@whitehouse.gov Let the government know That we the people are unwilling to accept Lawyers dictating what is medicine to the Doctors and patients in this country. Pea ce and Freedom John Galt jr. Feel free to forward this message to any and all mailing lists you have... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:42:40 -0800 From: "Tom O'Connell" To: aro@drugsense.org, restore@crrh.org, maptalk@mapinc.org Subject: Bill Maher show Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990309124240.007b2e50@pop.sirius.com> I just had the dubious pleasure of watching the "discussion" of drug issues on last night's Bill Maher show. Everyone with video capabilities should check this out, but be warned that you may find it depressing: http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/misc_pi-3-8-99.html Basically it consists of 4 (5, if you include the host) dishonest/uninformed yahoos shouting their own versions of "truth" at each other for the entire period. My headache got so bad I had to stop watching with 2 or 3 minutes to go. It's the best recent display of cognitive dissonance since impeachment. Califano's dishonesty was exceeded only by "attorney & theologian" Jackson's stupidity. The two comedians, Dave Matthews & Elayne Boosler, were alternately inarticulate and misleading, opting for the cheap shot over a chance to enlighten. Maher means well, but he needs better guests if he's to do anything more than harden already entrenched attitudes. Tom O'Connell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:16:02 -0800 From: "Peter McWilliams" To: "Peter McWilliams" Subject: Federal Judge Rules Author Peter McWilliams Cannot Use Medical Marijuana Even to Save His Life Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01AC_01BE6A37.5C975640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit “They’re just going to let me die,” said McWilliams, who was devastated by the ruling. “[W]e emphasize that we expect defendant to abide by the law and his conditions of release,” Judge King noted in a ruling issued on March 3, 1999, but not released until today. “By this order, we do not mean to express indifference to defendant’s situation,” Judge King wrote in his ruling. “My doctor and I have tried everything, and we made this very clear in the documents filed with the court. Medical marijuana was the only alternative,” said McWilliams. “We hope and trust that defendant and his physician will be able to determine a suitable treatment program within the law,” the ruling stated. “The Judge’s ‘hope” and ‘trust’, while certainly appreciated, are not what I need. I needed the judge to act, to give me back my medicine so I will be alive to defend myself in court,” said McWilliams, whose trial on the underlying medical marijuana charges are not scheduled to begin until September 7, 1999. McWilliams attorney, Thomas J. Ballanco, said an appeal would be made to the Federal 9th Circuit Court. The complete ruling and other related documents are online at www.petertrial.com . PRESS CONTACTS: Peter McWilliams’ attorney: Thomas J. Ballanco, 310-259-6976 Assistant U.S. Federal Attorneys in charge of case: Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha 213-894-2481 Mary E. Fulginiti, 213-894-6681 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:49:38 -0500 (EST) From: GranVizier@webtv.net To: when@olywa.net Cc: restore@crrh.org, november-d@drugsense.org Subject: Laguna mulls move from 'zero tolerance' Message-ID: <23615-36E5A582-2517@mailtod-112.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Laguna mulls move from 'zero tolerance' EDUCATION: First-time drug or alcohol offenders would get therapy and stay in school under a new policy to be discussed tonight. March 9, 1999 By JOHN GITTELSOHN The Orange County Register LAGUNA UNIFIED'S PROPOSED POLICY First offense On-campus suspension for up to five days, with student attending regular classes but under supervision during lunch and breaks. 20 hours of commuity service. Can rehearse and train for sports, performances and other extracurricular activities. School board can postpone suspension if student plays a key role in a drama production. Student and parents or guardians required to undergo counseling. Student referred to Laguna Beach Police Department or peer court. Second offense Mandatory five-day on-campus detention. School board can expel, transfer student out of district, assign student to continuation school or other alternative program. Referred to police department or peer court. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at Laguna Beach Unified School District headquarters, 550 Blumont St. For more information, call (949) 497-7700. LAGUNA BEACH =97 The school board is considering a therapeutic approach to keep first-time drug or alcohol offenders on campus and in class, a contrast to the recent get-tough trend of "zero tolerance" for such crimes at schools. "I'm sure it's the most lax policy in this county," said Eileen Walsh, a board member who has been working on a new drug and alcohol policy that will be discussed at a meeting tonight. Laguna Beach reports nearly twice the rate of drug and alcohol cases as other Orange County unified school districts, with nearly four incidents per 1,000 students. The policy would require students to serve "in school" suspensions with extra detention periods rather than spending a week at home, as is currently the case. Athletes would be required to practice with their teams, but would be prohibited from playing in games. Actors in school plays would have to rehearse, but would be banned from the stage. However, a performer's suspension could be delayed by the school board if the student's absence would hurt the show. Community service and counseling =97 for both students and parents =97 would also be required. Most Orange County school districts require out-of-school suspensions and transfer to another school for the first offense of using drugs or alcohol. Newport-Mesa Unified, for example, transferred a student whom police caught off campus with a marijuana pipe in his pickup. As a one-high-school town, Laguna Beach has nowhere to transfer students. Laguna's school board wants to approve the policy this spring so it can take effect by fall. The proposals have drawn support and criticism. Theater teacher Mark Dressler disagrees with the suggestion that an actor's suspension can make or break a play. "What about a quarterback on the football team?" said the director of the district's award-winning drama department. Several community members lauded the intent of the new policy. Susan Jacob, executive director of Brandy's Friends, a treatment center for adolescents named after a Laguna Beach High graduate who died of cocaine and alcohol abuse, said students using drugs and alcohol need structure instead of being turned loose during a suspension or expulsion. "Expelling kids doesn't do anything but move the problem," she said. "It's only about barring a child from healthy activities, and what good is that going to do?" Greg Wolfe, a consultant with the state Department of Education's Healthy Kids Program, said studies have found that therapy works better than punishment among beginning users. "Any opportunity to connect to others =97 to adults, to activities, to healthy behavior other than just removing a student from school =97 is good," he said. The 2,500-student Laguna Beach Unified School District reported 10 incidents of student drug or alcohol use in 1997-98. One student was expelled. It had the highest rate of such offenses among Orange County's 11 unified school districts, with 3.94 incidents per 1,000 students. The Orange County average was 1.99 per 1,000. The county's three high school districts =97 Anaheim, Fullerton and Huntington Beach =97 reported higher rates of drug and alcohol use. Impetus for the policy changes came amid reports that some Laguna Beach drug or alcohol users were not punished. One group busted for drinking spent their five-day suspension vacationing in Palm Springs, Walsh said. "That's at least Laguna lore," she said. "There's a culture of it being party time in Laguna. You look around and see consequences aren't applied, and I think this works against the policy. I hope this (new policy) is a better deterrent and allows us to get involved with at-risk kids sooner." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 18:28:19 -0500 From: JF To: "Tom O'Connell" Cc: aro@drugsense.org, restore@crrh.org, maptalk@mapinc.org Subject: Re: MAP: Bill Maher show Message-ID: <35047B13.3065B524@psu.edu> Don't be depressed. Did you hear that crowd? They obviously believe Bill Maher and Dave Mathews and not Califano. It doesn't matter what those prohibitioinist idiots said. Its what the audience said. The more people like Califano open their mouth the more ground we take. -- `A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither' - Thomas Jefferson' Stop complaining. VOTE LIBERTARIAN! Jay Ferguson Graduate Student Computer Science and Engineering Pennsylvania State University jhf102@psu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:14:33 -0800 From: "Gerald (Jerry) Sutliff" To: "Tom O'Connell" , "CRRH mailing list" Subject: Re: Bill Maher show Message-ID: <199903100035.QAA28284@mercury.dnai.com> Dear Tom, Everytime I've tired to watch I've gone away disappointed. Like most everything on TV it's kept there for its entertainment value. I watched one segment of Night Line a few years back and the anti-crack "spokes-persons'" only contrabution was to chant, "No more crack babies." They didn't want any exchange of ideas. I was sick. BTW it was an honor to share the letters' section with you last week in the SFX. vty, jerry sutliff ---------- > From: Tom O'Connell ; CRRH mailing list > To: aro@drugsense.org; restore@crrh.org; maptalk@mapinc.org > Subject: Bill Maher show > Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 12:42 PM > > I just had the dubious pleasure of watching the "discussion" of drug issues > on last night's Bill Maher show. Everyone with video capabilities should > check this out, but be warned that you may find it depressing: > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:35:18 -0800 From: Arthur Livermore To: restore@crrh.org Cc: ricbayer@teleport.com Subject: Re: OREGON: Lawmaker takes aim at marijuana law & OMMA update Message-ID: <199903100035.QAA09325@smtp.pacifier.com> Dr. Rick Bayer , a sponsor of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act wrote: >At a slightly higher risk, doctors can fill out an Oregon Health >Division (OHD) form for patients and doctors (again, a doctor should >*never* fill out ANY form for the sole purpose of aiding a patient to >get marijuana). The OHD form is not to get mj but is to exempt patients >from Oregon law as per the OMMA. It is clearly stated on the (draft) >OHD form that doctors are not "prescribing mj". The concern about the >OHD form and federal risk for doctors is that by filling out the OHD >form under OMMA, "is the doctor helping a patient to *retain* mj?" - is >this close to *aiding*? - or is all of this making me paranoid? It's not paranoia when "they" are really trying to make you out to be a criminal. I'll be really happy when my relationship with my doctor and the medicine I use are no longer political issues. Bottom line: health is a private part of our lives. The feds have no business being involved in personal health decisions. Sincerely, Arthur Livermore alive@pacifier.com 503-436-1882 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:55:40 -0400 From: aahpat To: "restore@crrh.org" Subject: Saving Peter McWilliams Life..NOW! Message-ID: <36E5B4E7.F9846684@enter.net> Following first is a letter that I wrote that was published in the LA Times a couple of weeks back. Following it is a release that Peter McWilliams sent out today, Tuesday. I would strongly encourage folks from around the country to cut and paste any part of the letter that you support and send it to any and all California Newspapers. The federal government is demonstrating an obscene contempt for the sanctity of human life and for the authority and right of the people of the state of California to self determination. The federal politicians need to learn the level of contempt that we the people hold them in for promulgating the prohibition drug war policy. Editor; California state Senator Vasconcellos has just touched the tip of the iceberg of the problems with our national prohibition drug policy. The dominant puritanical minority that controls the congress with coercion, fear and the politics of personal destruction have also subverted our federal courts. After the federal sentencing commission proposed easing marijuana sentencing, the congress responded by refusing to approve any more appointments to the commission. The last member, Senior U.S. Judge Richard P. Conaboy of Scranton, Pa, left the commission last October. The result is that the federal courts no longer have the guidance of the commission and thus federal law and the nations' courts are effectively subverted. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, in his 1998 Year-End Report of the Federal Judiciary, identified the failure of the congress to confirm new appointments to the commission as the number one problem facing the court. Most judges fear rendering constitutionally consistent decisions because these vindictive members of the congress will censure them. While a censure won't remove a judge from the court it will foreclose any upward mobility in the system. Hence, there is no justice in the federal courts. This is the judicial environment that Peter McWilliams is subjected to. If the state of California is to save the life of Mr. McWilliams it should step in and take him into protective custody from the federal prosecutors and provide to him the life saving marijuana that he needs to stabilize and strengthen his body. The state should stand up to the federal persecutors in the name of justice and protect their citizen from a federal government gone mad. Pat Rogers aahpat@enter.net http://www.enter.net/~aahpat/amend.htm ad hoc Campaign for the Advancement of Reform by the Marijuana Amendment, (CARMA). When we vote we make our own. **************** From McWilliams March 9, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Federal Judge Rules Author Peter McWilliams Cannot Use Medical Marijuana Even to Save His Life Federal Judge George H. King ruled that author Peter McWilliams cannot use medical marijuana while on bail awaiting his trial on federal medical marijuana charges. snip ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:54:46 -0800 From: David Hadorn To: "CRRH mailing list" Subject: Re: OMMA update Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990309165446.00804e20@dnai.com> At 12:01 PM 3/9/99 -0800, Rick Bayer wrote: [snip] > >There appears to be a low risk way for physicians to participate in the >OMMA and that is for them to not do anything other than what they >already do. If they only see patients, diagnose debilitating illnesses, >discuss what treatments might help, record the office visit in the >chart, and give a copy of the chart note to the patient, they are *not* >aiding a patient to get marijuana. They are only practicing medicine as >per usual and exercising First Amendment Rights by discussing what >treatment might help their patient. The chart note needs to legibly >list the debilitating illness and say "medical marijuana might help" >(see the OMMA, in section 4). > Presumably patients have the right to obtain copies of their medical records, in which case they could produce those copies as evidence for the physician's recommendation. Right? >Under no circumstances should a doctor *aid* or help a patient to >directly get mj - otherwise doctors, just like anyone else, risk >possible *criminal* charges. CRIMINAL - not DEA administrative risk - >IS THE REAL (albeit small) RISK FOR DOCTORS. That means doctors should >never fill out forms for buyer's clubs, etc. or forms for anything that >might provide a "ticket" for a patient to get mj. > This strikes me as over-cautious, especially since, as noted later in your post, the feds have never gone after any doctor for recommending medical marijuana. Dr. Tod Mikuriya has qualified hundreds of people in California, including filling out appropriate forms. I think doctors need to a bit braver than they have appeared to be so far. At the least, they could write "If marijuana were legal, I would recommend it to this patient." Would this be sufficient from OMMA's standpoint? >At a slightly higher risk, doctors can fill out an Oregon Health >Division (OHD) form for patients and doctors (again, a doctor should >*never* fill out ANY form for the sole purpose of aiding a patient to >get marijuana). The OHD form is not to get mj but is to exempt patients >from Oregon law as per the OMMA. It is clearly stated on the (draft) >OHD form that doctors are not "prescribing mj". The concern about the >OHD form and federal risk for doctors is that by filling out the OHD >form under OMMA, "is the doctor helping a patient to *retain* mj?" - is >this close to *aiding*? - or is all of this making me paranoid? > Again, this seems a bit of stretch. Granted paranoia is appropriate when living in a police state, but to refuse to fill out this form strikes me as just too timid. I think doctors need to be more willing to go to bat for their patients and less fearful of the feds. Especially if substantial numbers of doctors start doing the right thing in this regard, it will be very difficult for the narcs to do any real damage. D ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:00:00 -0000 From: "T. Paine" To: drctalk@drcnet.org, restore@crrh.org, editor@mapinc.org Cc: AMPraxis@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Holy War on Gays [and drugs]----Rolling Stoned Message-ID: This Rolling Stone magazine article is incredibly informative about the rabid-religious-right who seem to be in everybody's face the last few years. They are definitely the main obstacle to medical cannabis and drug reform and even harm reduction. The author previously wrote an article on the drug war. The connections between the prohibitionist lock-'em-up types and the religious right are many and deep. I am not gay [yet :-) ]. But this article is SO relevant to drug reform and cannabis reform. Jim Rosenfield sent in some letters to the editor (some of which he wrote) discussing the complete lack of reason in some people's opposition to medical cannabis. ____ MAP didn't see the relevance (yet) of his point and didn't put the article on the archives. But Jim Rosenfield is right in the money concerning many of our illogical opponents. They frequently end up blubbering about marijuana (even for medical use) as being immoral. As if a plant or its use can be "immoral." Or a Tinky Winky teletubby! ____ Here is an article I wrote about some of these ideologies, too. --- http://www.usperspectives.org/documents/HTML/ideology.htm *Ideology, Idiot-ology, Political Parties, & the U.S. Drug War. All sides of the political spectrum covered. And healthcare.| ---- Original Message follows ---- -- On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:04:50 AMPraxis@aol.com wrote: >via Steve from Pink Paradigm...... >I encourage you to buy this magazine at your local >news stand if you don't already have a subscription. The >illustrations and photos for this article are great. Also check out Rolli= >ng >Stone's website at http://www.rollingstone.com ------------------= >-- >>From Rolling Stone Issue 808, March 18, 1999 >Pages 38-41 > >The Holy War on Gays >The Christian Right is on a new mission: to drive homosexuality back into = >the >closet. Inside the war rooms of evangelical intolerance > >By Robert Dreyfuss > >(Robert Dreyfuss profiled the leaders and opponents of the war on drugs in >Rolling Stone issue 775) > > On a stormy day in mid-January 1996, about twenty leaders of the >Christian right wing met in the basement of a Baptist church in Memphis. > Representing such large organizations as the Rev. Pat >Robertson's Christian Coalition, the Mississippi-based American Family >Association and James Dobson's Focus on the Family, the activists had come >together to launch an anti-homosexual network, which they called the Natio= >nal >Pro-Family Forum. What drove them the most that day was >their alarm over a growing friendliness in America >to the idea of gay and lesbian marriages. Brainstorming during the course = >of a >nine-hour discussion, they hammered out a national strategy to combat >America's increasing tolerance of homosexuality. >And since then, meeting three or four times a year, the expanding group ha= >s >coordinated a powerful counteroffensive to the gay-rights >movement. > A few weeks after its initial meeting, the National Pro-Family >Forum's first action splashed onto the national scene during the >February Iowa residential caucuses. Christian-right activists invited >Republican presidential candidates to appear at an event held in a >church in Des Moines, Iowa, where, in front of more than 200 >reporters, each candidate signed a pledge declaring his opposition to >gay marriage. "No one was paying attention to the issue of same-sex >marriages up to that point," says Phil Burress, a Cincinnati activist >who organized the Memphis meeting. "And then all of a sudden bam! This >was an issue that was being debated nationwide!" > And the center of that debate was the Defense of Marriage Act, >or DOMA, which defines marriage in federal law as the union of a man >and a woman. The bill was sketched out at the Memphis gathering; it >was refined in the weeks afterward by Robert Knight, director of >cultural studies at the Family Research Council, with help from >Christian legal scholars, including the National Legal Foundation in >Virginia, founded by Robertson. > Designed as a response to the consideration of gay marriages >by Hawaiian courts, DOMA is an effort to prevent the legal authority >of such unions from spreading to the continental United States; it >also precludes same-sex couples from receiving federal spousal >benefits. The bill sailed through Congress, spearheaded by Rep. Bob >Barr, R-Ga., ironically twice divorced and thrice married himself. >And, with apparent reluctance, President Bill Clinton went along. "The >president signed it in the middle of the night, in the wee hours," >says Knight. "And only after [then-White House spokesman Mike] McCurry >called it a hate-driven bill." Since 1996, twenty-eight states have >passed parallel legislation, ensuring that they would not have to >recognize gay marriages approved by any other state. > The 1996 candidate pledges in Iowa and the passage of DOMA >were the opening shots in a nationwide campaign, fueled by the >Christian right, to roll back gains won by gay activists since the >1980s. Marshaling a political and religious force 30 million strong, >who fervently believe that the Bible demands that they condemn >homosexuality, the network of Christian right groups is trying to slam >the door on America's uncomfortable but increasing acceptance of gays >and lesbians. Its leaders predict society's collapse if the gay-rights >agenda were to succeed. Sincere, passionate and implacable sometimes >seemingly obsessed, the anti-gay movement sees gay rights as a pink >dagger aimed at the heart of American family life. > In January 1998, the Christian right provided a convincing >demonstration of its ability to inspire its voters to the polls. A >wicked ice storm had coated Maine in a frozen blanket that felled >trees, snapped power lines and paralyzed roads across the state. It >was a storm-of-the-century event, trapping thousands in their homes >and closing businesses and schools. But on February 10th, led by >legions of motivated Christians, voters ignored the ice and turned out >for a special election; they overturned Maine's 1997 Human Rights Act >by a margin of four percent. That law, passed less than a year >earlier, prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation >in jobs, housing, credit and public accommodations. > The vote was a stunning victory for the state chapters of the >Christian Coalition and the Christian Civic League, the two groups >that had petitioned for the referendum. Maine's political >establishment and gay-rights groups across the country were stunned. >"The opposition did not realize the extent of our grassroots >movement," says Paul Volle, who heads the Christian Coalition of >Maine. Until last summer, however, the Christian right's anti-gay >crusade operated largely Out of view, bursting into the open when >full-scale political battles like Maine's - and others in Colorado, >Oregon, Ohio and elsewhere - flared up. Since the fall of '997, when >openly gay San Francisco philanthropist James Hormel was first >nominated to be ambassador to Luxembourg, anti-gay forces have been >protesting, warning darkly that he would be a spokesman for the >"homosexual agenda." Despite their concerns, he was recently >renominated. > Last July, things became very public when fifteen >organizations belonging to the National Pro-Family Forum launched the >Truth in Love campaign, a $500,000 advertising blitz in national >newspapers proclaiming that homosexuals "can change," featuring >"ex-gays" who have "walked out of homosexuality into sexual celibacy >or even marriage." > A who's who of anti-gay groups sponsored the ad campaign - >from the Christian Coalition, the AFA, the FRC and Americans for Truth >About Homosexuality - as well as large, media-savvy Christian churches >like Coral Ridge Ministries, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ads drew >withering fire from gay-rights activists, who called them hate-filled >and homophobic, which the sponsors bitterly deny. And the media, drawn >to conflict, gave wide exposure to the ads, from Newsweek (a cover >story) to People and ABC's Nightline. > Then, at the height of the controversy last October, a gay >college student named Matthew Shepard was savagely battered in Wyoming >and left to bleed to death, tied scarecrowlike to a fence along a >deserted roadside. Shepard's death shocked the country and gave rise >to renewed calls for federal hate-crimes legislation. Christian-right >activists, too, denounced Shepard's murder. But because they spread >the gospel of anti-homosexuality, they were criticized on the premise >that their declarations can foment violent gay bashing. "Words have >consequences," says Wayne Besen, a spokesman for the Human Rights >Campaign, a gay-rights group in Washington, D.C. "You can see it in >every schoolyard in America." > And all of a sudden, the national battle over gay rights was >once again front and center. >Abortion and homosexuality are the top preoccupations for much of the >Christian right. Indeed, the gay-rights issue has become an important >source of cash through direct-mail appeals to carefully cultivated >lists of supporters. "It's a very lucrative target for them," says >Deanna Duby, former director of education policy at People for the >American Way, a civil-rights group. "It brings in a lot of money." > Not only that, but the message to the broader audience - honed >in response to advances in gay rights - has become more sophisticated >and, in a perverse way, politically correct. The meaning of the Truth >in Love ads is couched in terms of Christian "love" for the homosexual >sinner. Another strategy has proved very successful in electoral >battles in Maine, Oregon, Colorado and Ohio: Ignoring evidence of hate >crimes and discrimination against gays, the Christian right portrays >efforts to secure equal rights for gays as a bid for "special rights" >that give them privileges other Americans don't have. "We haven't >found an effective way of countering that," says Rebecca Isaacs, >political director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. > If the army of Christian soldiers in the homosexuality wars >has a general, it is FRC's Robert Knight. In 1986, as a journalist for >the Los Angeles Times, Knight concluded a long, gradual process of >thought and meditation; at that point, he says, "I gave my life to >Jesus Christ." Though he spent three more years at the Times, Knight >was a changed man, having decided to commit himself to Christianity. >After stints at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the >Heritage Foundation, Washington's premier conservative think tank, he >moved to the FRC. > "Just look at the human body!" says Knight. "You can't fool >nature. The rectum was not made for sexual activity." Then, impishly, >he adds, "It is an exit ramp, not an entry ramp. > Boyish and almost baby-faced, Knight, 47, is urgently sincere. >"I've let Jesus Christ come into my life," he says. "When you meet God >face to face, you understand how far short you have fallen of God's >standards." He hands me a pamphlet, "The Bible and Homosexuality," >which cites the passages from Genesis, Leviticus, Judges, Samuel I and >2, Romans, Timothy I and Corinthians I in which conservative >Christians believe homosexuality is condemned. By far the most famous >is the story of Lot in Sodom (Genesis 19:1-29), where an unruly crowd >of men demand that Lot hand over some men, or angels, "so that we may >know them" (in FRC's translation: "so that we can have sex with >them"). At that point, God destroyed Sodom. Those passages and >numerous others are nothing less than God's law for many Christians, >though many other theologians dispute the exact meaning and relevance >of each and every passage. > Knight's blue eyes are unblinking as he warns that America's >"man-based culture" could shudder and fall with the advent of a sexual >revolution brought about by gays. "As man is reduced in stature, all >hell will break loose," he >says. "We'll see a breakdown in social organization, with more drug >use, more disease, more unwanted pregnancies. You're mainstreaming >dysfunction" > As the war room for the Christian right's anti-gay campaign, >the Family Research Council is a formidable force. Housed in a >luxurious modern building in downtown Washington, D.C., FRC (slogan: >"Family, Faith and Freedom") is a $14 million-a-year operation that >lobbies Congress and state legislatures, and churns out a steady >stream of books, pamphlets and monographs on homosexuality, >pornography, school prayer and abortion. FRC's monthly Washington >Watch reaches more than 400,000 homes, and its radio broadcasts are >heard daily on 400 stations across the country. > Previously, FRC was part of Focus on the Family, James >Dobson's sprawling empire based in Colorado Springs, nestled against >the Rockies. Dobson, a child psychologist and the author of "Dare to >Discipline", a book advocating corporal punishment for children, >founded Focus on the Family in 1977, working out of a tiny office in >Arcadia, California. Since moving to Colorado, Focus has grown >astonishingly, into a $109 million-a-year ministry employing 1,300 >people, who produce a dozen different radio and television broadcasts, >fourteen publications (including its flagship monthly magazine, Focus >on the Family, with a circulation of 2.5 million), and a wide range of >films and videos. Though virtually unknown to the general population, >Dobson is wildly popular among his millions of followers, who listen >daily to the Focus on the Family broadcasts on more than 1,900 radio >outlets. > In 1992, as the FRC shifted its emphasis to lobbying Congress, >Focus spun off FRC as a free-standing operation, though they have >retained close ties. > Like many of his allies, Bob Knight believes that gays die >younger, take more drugs, take more risks and engage in a wide range >of anti-social conduct. Treading on highly controversial ground, >Knight warns that the "gay agenda" targets children. "They're luring >kids into homosexual behavior," says Knight. In a 1993 speech, he >said, "There is a strong undercurrent of pedophilia in the homosexual >subculture." > If Knight is the movement's general, his lieutenant is Pete >LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. Energetic and >fast-talking, LaBarbera, 36, was a liberal and an activi5t with the >Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in the early >1980s. Spurred by anti-communism and support of President Reagan's >1983 invasion of Grenada, LaBarbera gravitated toward the right while >a student at the University of Michigan. His personal "Damascus road" >moment came thirteen years ago, when he met a woman - "a missionary," >he says - who helped him develop a "personal relationship with God." >With his intensified religious fervor came a growing revulsion toward >homosexuality. > Since 1993, LaBarbera has put out The Lambda Report, which is >devoted exclusively to news about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and >transgender world as seen through Christian-activist eyes. Though its >circulation is just 3,000, the publication is notorious for its >expos=E9's of what LaBarbera sees as the unseemly and often lurid >activities associated with the "gay lifestyle." He regularly goes >undercover to gay-rights meetings, gay bars and other locales, then >recounts in near pornographic detail episodes of fellatio, >masturbation and sadomasochistic sex that he claims to observe. >(WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS reads the subhead for one >recent Lambda Report "exclusive" on a Washington, D.C., "dungeon >dance.") >The Christian right succeeds by tapping into Americans' deep >ambivalence toward homosexuality. Polls show a kind of schizophrenia: >People seem to strongly favor anti-discrimination measures and other >civil-rights protections for gays and lesbians, while at the same time >they view homosexuality negatively - a sort of distasteful tolerance. >A national survey conducted last August and published in the >Washington Post found that fifty-seven percent of Americans questioned >consider homosexuality unacceptable; when asked about gay sex, >seventy-two percent called it unacceptable. Yet an overwhelming >eighty- >seven percent believe that homosexuals should have equal rights in >terms of job opportunities. > Americans' growing tolerance frustrates the Christian right, >but its leaders counterbalance this trend with considerable political >clout. In Congress, a substantial bloc of senators and congressmen owe >their allegiance - if not their elections - to the Christian Coalition >and its allies: They have a powerful grassroots apparatus along with a >widespread network of radio and television outlets that millions of >Christians turn to for alternative sources of news and opinion. > Indeed, the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 was >credited to the power of the Christian right, and many of the freshmen >elected to Congress that year reinforced a loosely organized "God >squad" on issues like homosexuality, abortion and school prayer. One >member of that class, former Rep. Randy Tate, R-Wash., lost his bid >for reelection in 1996 and now heads the Christian Coalition. > Especially for Bible Belt Republicans in Congress, the >Christian right has make-or-break power. In Republican primaries where >turnout is relatively low, groups like the Christian Coalition and >Focus on the Family can mobilize militant, committed voters at the >polls. This edge in the primaries gives the groups access to the >highest levels of the Republican Party in Washington, including Senate >Majority Leader Trent Lott; last year, Lott won their praise when he >compared homosexuality to disorders like alcoholism and kleptomania. >Many other highly visible politicians, including Sen. Don Nickles, >R-Okla.; Sen. James Inkofe, R-Okla.; Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.; Rep. >Bob Inglis, R-S.C.; and Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., have publicly >disparaged gays. > Still, many on the Christian right are angry that the GOP >doesn't pay more attention to their issues. Last year, Dobson >threatened a complete break with the GOP when he believed that the >Christian right was getting short shrift from the national Republican >leadership. He and other like-minded activists met in May with >Republican House leaders, who promised to attend to the social >conservative agenda. In July, House Republicans introduced a proposal >to deny federal housing money to communities that provide benefits for >unmarried domestic partners; another proposal seeks to block President >Clinton's efforts to prevent job discrimination against gay and >lesbian federal employees. >I'm living proof that the truth can set you free: The headline of the >full-page ad appears below a photograph of an attractive, dark-haired >woman, smiling and with her left hand held up to prominently display a >wedding band. The caption reads: 'Anne Paulk - wife, mother, former >lesbian." Also pictured are members of Exodus international, a >worldwide network of Christian ministries devoted to helping gays and >lesbians "confront the truth of their sexual sin." > The Truth in Love advertising campaign originated at the >ten-acre Fort Lauderdale campus of Coral Ridge Ministries, whose >awe-inspiring 300-foot spire looms over Federal Highway. Coral Ridge >is the home of the dynamic Rev. D. James Kennedy, who has been >preaching in Florida since the 1950s. While Kennedy's congregation of >more than 9,000 members often swells with worshipers from around the >country, it is through The Coral Ridge Hour that Kennedy reaches an >estimated 3.5 million people weekly on 1,200 radio and television >stations and two cable networks. Kennedy, who is dignified, articulate >and fatherly, openly advocates that America should be transformed into >a "Christian republic." > Janet Folger, a former anti-abortion activist from Ohio, is >director of the Center for Reclaiming America, the ministry's >political arm. Like many of her fellow Christian activists, Folger >projects an aggrieved, set-upon mentality, arguing that >Bible-believing Christians are the true victims of discrimination, not >gays. The FRC's The Other Side of Tolerance: Victims of Homosexual >Activism says that "many men and women of faith... have lost their >jobs or been disciplined for standing against the homosexual agenda." >It is a constant refrain. "We have been picketed," says Folger. "They >say our whole side is extreme, that we are religious political >extremists." > That feeling contributed to how upset and angry Folger became >over denunciations of Trent Lott for his comparison of gays to >alcoholics. She proposed to members of the National Pro-Family Forum >that they conduct an outreach campaign through advertising. "We wanted >to express a message of hope," says Folger. "We wanted to tell >homosexuals that you can change." > Folger's proposal, which was enthusiastically accepted by >Coral Ridge and eventually sponsored by more than a dozen groups, was >not Coral Ridge's first foray into the anti-gay movement. The ministry >pours money into antigay-rights ballot measures and the National Legal >Foundation. > Coral Ridge's media sophistication allowed it to easily >assemble the ad campaign. Soon afterward, Anne Paulk found herself >staring from newspaper pages across the country. Paulk and her >formerly gay husband, John Paulk, have become spokespeople for the >"ex-gay" movement. She says that by surrendering to God she managed to >abandon her lesbian life for heterosexuality: "I was able to finally >give all my relationships to God and begin the real road to healing." >John Paulk, who had been a drag queen and gay prostitute, now chairs >Exodus International. Founded in Anaheim, California, in 1976, Exodus >today includes ninety-seven affiliated ministries. It receives 400 to >6oo inquiries a month from homosexuals and their families, says Bob >Davies, the group's North American director. A large stable of >therapists and counselors, many of them affiliated with the National >Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuals, often works with >Exodus clients to help them shed their gay identity. > The ads generated considerable backlash. To most medical >experts, including the American Psychiatric Association, therapists >engaging in so-called "reparative therapy" aimed at changing the >sexual orientation of gay patients borders on malpractice. On December >i4th, the APA warned, "The potential risks of 'reparative therapy' are >great, including depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.... >The American Psychiatric Association opposes any psychiatric >treatment, such as 'reparative' or 'conversion' therapy, which is >based on the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder >or... that the patient should change his/her sexual orientation." >Indeed, since the early 1970s, virtually the entire medical profession >has undergone a sea change in favor of accepting homosexuality. > But that has hardly deterred the antigay movement, which >claims that the APA, along with the American Psychological Association >and other societies, has surrendered to pressure and intimidation >tactics by gay-rights activists. A television ad campaign promoting >the ex-gay philosophy is in the works. >While the conservative Christians who champion reparative therapy say >they are motivated by sympathy for troubled gays, that is not true of >everyone in the crusade against homosexuality. Extremists advocate the >death penalty for gays, based on a radical interpretation of the >Bible. The most notorious anti-gay activist is the Rev. Fred Phelps, >pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, whose Web-site >address is godhatesfags.com. To a man, the mainstream Christian-right >groups have denounced Phelps, and he in turn has denounced the >religious right as "lukewarm cowards." Phelps' followers actually >picket funerals of gay people. "We display large, colorful signs >containing Bible words and sentiments," says Phelps, including "GOD >HATES FAGS, FAGS HATE GOD, AIDS CURES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR AIDS, FAGS >BURN IN HELL, etc." He cites "statistics" such as, "The average fag >fellates 106 men, swallows fifty seminal discharges, has seventy-two >penile penetrations of the anus and ingests feces of twenty-three >different men every year. > One thing that Phelps has in common with the Family Research >Council, the Christian Coalition and ex-gay ministries like Exodus is >that they all refer to the work of Dr. Paul Cameron, founder of the >Family Research Institute and ISIS, the Institute for the Scientific >Investigation of Sexuality. > Cameron, 59, a former psychologist based in Colorado Springs, >issues a stream of data often used by anti-gay activists: that gays >are far more likely than straights to molest children, that gays are >more likely to commit crimes as mundane as tax evasion or shoplifting, >and soon. "We're kind of the wellspring of most of the statistics >about the gay lifestyle," Cameron says. > Cameron - who in the 1980s called for quarantining gays to >prevent the spread of AIDS - has been attacked not only by gay-rights >groups but also by psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, who >have engaged in a decades long war with Cameron. > Like many of his allies, Cameron believes that, if left >unchecked, homosexuality will destroy America like God did Sodom. >"Untrammeled homosexuality can take over and destroy a social system," >says Cameron. "If you isolate sexuality as something solely for one's >own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm >you can get - and that is what homosexuality seems to be - then >homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. The evidence is that men >do a better job on men, and women on women, if all you are looking for >is orgasm." So powerful is the allure of gay sex, Cameron believes, >that if society approves of gay people, more and more heterosexuals >will be inexorably drawn into homosexuality. "I'm convinced that >lesbians are particularly good seducers," says Cameron. > "People in homosexuality are incredibly evangelical," he adds, >sounding evangelical himself. "It's pure sexuality. It's almost like >pure heroin. It's such a rush. They are committed in almost a >religious way. And they'll take enormous risks, do anything." He says >that for married men and women, gay sex would be irresistible. >"Marital sex tends toward the boring end," he points out. "Generally, >it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual >sex does." So, Cameron believes, within a few generations >homosexuality would become the dominant form of sexual behavior. >Whether or not one agrees with Cameron's views, his research has been >used effectively by the Christian right during the 1990S in the >campaign to overturn advances by gays and lesbians, and, it can be >argued, to darken the prospects for peaceful acceptance of >homosexuality. Gay-rights activist David Garrity says that the >referendum in Maine has intensified anti-homosexual feeling there. "We >all noticed a huge increase in harassment - a great number of shouts >from teenagers in cars while we were walking on the street," he says. >"I can think of five incidents like that myself" Tracking violent >incidents, either statewide or nationally, is difficult. But according >to the FBI's latest data, in 1997 there were 1,102 reported hate >crimes linked to sexual orientation, mostly aimed at gay males. The >National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs gives a figure of 2,445. >The coalition also tracked sharp increases in anti-gay violence during >ballot-initiative debates in Colorado and Oregon. > Following the Maine vote, the Christian Coalition announced >its intention to launch a campaign called Families 2000, seeking >"repeal of legislation giving special rights based on sexual behavior" >in other states and "defeat of state gay adoption laws." As a result >of the Maine initiative, the coalition noted, "We added 100,000 new >names to our organization in Maine." With its complementary strategies >of portraying sexual Orientation as a simple choice and arguing that >gays want special rights, the anti-gay movement is only growing >stronger. > --------- End Forwarded Message --------- Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:21:14 -0000 From: "T. Paine" To: restore@crrh.org Cc: Subject: Fwd: ltrs/lat: More on Culture War, Church and State Message-ID: Here is the Jim Rosenfield message I mentioned. I was discussing the recent Rolling Stone article on the rabid-religious-right and the connections to prohibitionists. And "morality." -- On Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:57:01 Jim Rosenfield wrote: >This letter, while deemed not "on target" for map's drug news line, >still carries an important message for those who would understand the drug >warriors and their backers. > >The prosecution and jailing of hundreds of thousands of peaceful marijuana >users flies in the face of rationality, compassion and any sense of fairness, >in the view of many people. We feel it is directly contradictory to the >understandings that allow us to live together in a civil society. On the other >hand, this campaign is backed by a zealous disregard of what we think is >rational, compassionate, fair. The backers of this war are listening to >something else, together. Something which we do not agree on. Something >outside of our social contract as we understand it in the light of day. > >In the light of day, when numerous commissions and studies say marijuana is >harmless and that the punishment should fit the crime, we should question >arresting and imprisoning marijuana users. But they are not listening to >reason. They are listening to something else which they agree on but we do >not. Under cover they have committed to having us all governed by their >prejudices, no matter what the social contract says. > >Jim Rosenfield > > >Source: Los Angeles Times Letters >Contact: letters@latimes.com >Fax: 2132374712 >Pubdate: February 25, 1999 > >U.S. Hatred of Intellectuals > > * Regarding Bruce J. Schulman's "As American as Hating Intellectuals," >Opinion, Feb. 21: True, the House Republicans did not ask what a rational >constitutional scholar would recommend they do; instead, many were reported >to have asked, "What would Jesus do?" Perhaps they acted on their own >individual consciences but also on their collective religious consciences, >rather than in any sort of civic regard. This, I think, is a clear example >of their personal, sectarian religious practices causing crisis, trauma and > disruption to our diverse society at large. > If Americans are, on the whole, a moral yet reasoned and >pragmatic people, this episode must serve to drive deeper into the >background the minute yet mesmerizingly influential cadre of archaic >clerics who, using leaders such as these as proxies, would like nothing >more than to fulfill their own apocalyptic, suicidal fantasies by >prosecuting an "American cultural war" entirely of their own making. > >MARTIN K. ZITTER >Pasadena >Jim Rosenfield > >Insight Web Design http://www.insightweb.com > jnr@insightweb.com > tel: 310-836-0926 > fax: 310-836-0592 > Culver City CA [postal by request] > Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:17:55 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: New Zealand: Pot Smoking Still A Crime And Pipes Banned Message-ID: <4.1.19990309181732.00ab9a60@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: David Hadorn Pubdate: 9 March 1999 Source: New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) Copyright: New Zealand Herald Contact: editor@herald.co.nz Website: http://www.herald.co.nz/nzherald/index.html Author: Andrew Laxon, political reporter POT SMOKING STILL A CRIME AND PIPES BANNED Drug-smoking paraphernalia will be banned by next year under a Government plan to crack down on cannabis and other drugs. But there are few other specific changes in an "action plan" released yesterday by the Minister of Health, Wyatt Creech. The plan confirms Government promises last week that cannabis will not be legalised or decriminalised and that Ecstasy will be made a Class A drug. Other new measures include: * Targeting doctors who prescribe too many controlled drugs. * More research and information about Maori drug problems in the Far North and the East Coast. * A review of school drug-education programmes. * Government guidelines on how to hold safer dance parties. The plan, prepared by the Ministry of Health, says the visibility and availability of drug paraphernalia, particularly pipes and bongs, could give young people conflicting messages about taking drugs. But it warns that drug paraphernalia is hard to define because many harmless everyday items, such as knives and bottles, can be adapted for illegal drug use. It recommends the Government stick to banning items - such as certain pipes or bongs - which can be used only for drugs. The penalty for possession would be three months' jail or a $1500 fine or both, the same as for cannabis. The law would come into effect next year or possibly sooner but a transition time would be needed to allow importers and sellers to get rid of "non-complying stocks." The plan says the Health Funding Authority and the Ministry of Health should share information with the police to identify doctors who prescribe inappropriately to drug users. Doctors who refused to change their ways could receive ministry warnings, be referred to the Medical Council or prosecuted if necessary. It recommends a review of drug education, saying it is not clear which approaches actually work for young people. The dance party guidelines are aimed at nightclub owners and patrons, after an Auckland woman died from an Ecstasy overdose. The Government's response overrules a select committee report which recommended it should reconsider the legal status of cannabis. The Minister of Police, Clem Simich, and police chiefs favour decriminalisation but many senior National ministers, including the Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley, are firmly against it. Mr Creech said yesterday that the Government was not going to review the law on cannabis because it did not want to send confusing messages to young people about drug use. But a spokesman for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml) said the Government was trying to avoid what it saw as a vote-losing issue in election year. "Everyone except the Government knows the law isn't working. It doesn't stop anyone from smoking pot and it doesn't help the few people who do have problems with it from getting help." __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Rich O'Grady We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:19:01 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: MN: Hemp Bill Faces Tough Opposition In House Message-ID: <4.1.19990309181837.00abcbc0@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: compassion23@geocities.com (Frank S. World) Pubdate: 9 March 1999 Source: West Central Tribune (MN) Copyright: Forum Communications Company 1999 Contact: feedback@wctrib.com Website: http://www.wctrib.com/ HEMP BILL FACES TOUGH OPPOSITION IN HOUSE ST. PAUL - Legislation aimed at making industrial hemp an alternative farm crop was given preliminary approval by the Minnesota Senate on Monday, but the bill could face tough opposition in the House. Hemp is a weak relative of marijuana. The plant was grown extensively in western Minnesota about 50 years ago, before it was banned as a controlled substance by state and federal officials. Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, DFL-Erskine, has been trying for years to resurrect hemp as an alternative crop for Minnesota farmers, many of whom have been besieged by crop disease and low commodity prices. "It's not going to replace wheat, barley or sugar beets in the Red River Valley," Moe said, while promoting hemp as a niche crop that could help some farmers. The Legislature must look at alternatives, he said, when farmers can't get a decent price for their traditional crops. Moe's bill would allow hemp to be grown on an experimental basis for about two years. If the experiment proves the crop worthwhile, the Legislature could be asked to legalize the wholesale production and processing of hemp. Worldwide, hemp's popularity has been rebounding. In Europe, the acreage devoted to hemp production has swelled from 10,000 acres in 1994 to 40,000 acres in 1998. The crop already is grown in 29 countries. Last year, Canada harvested its first hemp crop in 60 years. And Moe said North Dakota also is looking at legalizing hemp production. "I think this would be an excellent way for our farmers to supplement their income," said Sen. Becky Lourey, DFL-Kerrick. Sen. Kenric Sheevel, R-Preston, said the crop has widespread support in the agricultural community. He said farmers see hemp as a far more versatile crop than soybeans. In World War II, hemp was harvested for rope, but the crop fell into disfavor. Today, it is used in the manufacture of cosmetics, clothing, shoes, paper, cars, paints, fertilizer and construction materials. Sen. Charlie Berg, I-Chokio, said the crop already grows wild in fence lines throughout western Minnesota. "This is not something new," he said. "I don't think there is going to be any dire results from this at all." But law enforcement officials are wary, and have lobbied against Moe's efforts over the last three years to reintroduce hemp into farm production. Last year, legislation authorizing the University of Minnesota to conduct a study of hemp production was vetoed by former Gov. Arne Carlson. This year, the legislation could die in the House, where two legislators have authored bills to legalize hemp production. Before the bills can reach the House floor for a vote, however, they must go through the Crime Prevention Committee, a committee that is chaired by Rep. Rich Stanek, R-Maple Grove, a Minneapolis police officer. Even though hemp is too weak to have the hallucinogenic qualities of marijuana, law enforcement officials worry that legalizing the plant sends a bad message to young people and makes it harder for them to enforce the nation's marijuana ban. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Derek Rea We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:45:57 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Fwd: Re: New Videos on web:Politically Incorrect,Cannabis Message-ID: <4.1.19990309184523.0091df00@mail.olywa.net> >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:26:33 -0800 (PST) >From: bc616@scn.org (Darral Good) >To: stanford@crrh.org >Subject: Re: HT: New Videos on web:Politically Incorrect,Cannabis > > > >By shear concidence I spoke on the radio today with MTV's "Dr. DREW" Pinsky. >I wanted to ask him why he appeared on "Politically Incorrect" about a >year ago opposing medicinal use of marijuana ( Woody Harelson was a guest) >Drew told me that the producer of the show ( Bill Maher?) sat him down >and told him the stance to take against medical marijuana. Drew told me >that he didn't support Prop. 215 because he felt it was "foisted on the >people". He said that the debate should be about legalization of >marijuana period. I told him that I was all for legalization and I >informed him that I am very proud of the voters of Washington for having >the compassion to allow medical uses here in our state. He said he >thought medical marijuana needed to have more study. >I talked about how viagra and prozac were rushed to the market after only >being studied for a little while. He said that he would like to see a >study of how to take the "get high" out of medical marijuana. >I told him that marijuana is probably the most studied drug in the world. >I aksed him why he hadn't called for a study on taking the "get high" out >of other medications such as codiene. He was here in Seattle to give a >lecture about "depression and intmacy". (Sponsored by Glaxxo-Welcome.) >He is just a typical corporate hack/quack! I ended the call by telling >him to learn more about Barney Frank's new medical marijuana bill. > > > > > >>"Politically Incorrect, with Bill Maher." This March 8, 1999 show is a >>debate about marijuana. Singer Dave Matthews and comedienne Elayne Boosler >>join Bill Maher in debating in favor of cannabis against Joseph Califano >>and Earl Jackson. 17 minutes, 19 seconds. The video is located at: >> > >-- >"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one strand within it. > Anything we do to the web we do to ourselves all things are bound > together all things connect." CHIEF SEATTLE. We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:14:18 -0800 From: "Buck" To: "David Hadorn" , "CRRH mailing list" Subject: Re: OMMA update Message-ID: <003c01be6ab4$dacedc40$d94033d1@incite> David you are right. but you underestimate the power of the feds. if everyone stepped to the plate at the same time and did not fade back then it would be more difficult for the feds to punish the doctors. this will not happen humans like there pleasurable ways of life and most doctors have a nice life and will not jeopardize their lives and lifestyle in exchange for martyrizim. Some will and some do! they are the real doctors. The war is still going in the favor of the fachist regime but it is not a slam dunk. Peace, Love & freedom Buck -----Original Message----- From: David Hadorn ; CRRH mailing list To: CRRH mailing list Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 6:18 PM Subject: Re: OMMA update snip ------------------------------ End of restore V1 #74 ********************* ------ To subscribe, unsubscribe or switch to immediate or digest mode, please send your instructions to . ------ *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120 Web: http://www.crrh.org/