>Sender: >To: >X-Original-Message-ID: <025701bf2cd2$4d344a10$9acf69cf@pacbell.net> >From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Letter in LA Times, too >Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:53:53 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > >It must be "print the wining letters day." Here's one that made the Los >Angeles Times. > >All of you who sent letters served an important purpose: it indicated to the >LA Times the importance of the story. This one, from R.L. Root, I think you >will agree, is an especially good one. > >Thank you all. > >Enjoy, > >Peter > > >------------------ > > >Los Angeles Times > >November 11, 1999 > > Prop. 215 Cases > > How extremely ironic that the judge who ruled that Peter McWilliams and >Todd McCormick could not use Proposition 215 in their defense against >marijuana charges is named King, George ("Judge Bars Medical Need, Prop. 215 >as Basis for Defense in Marijuana Trial," Nov. 6). > > Throughout our state, oppressors persecute sick and dying people for >using a medicine that works. Medical marijuana is the front line in the war >on drugs. Other battlegrounds include privacy rights, property rights, >freedom of association and right to due process. > > The war on drugs is a war on people. It has as much to do with drugs as >the Boston Tea Party had to do with tea. And just as King George's >oppression of the colonists was basically economic, the war on drugs >continues and grows because it is a multibillion-dollar industry. > > Just as the drug warriors in Washington do not plan on ever ending >their cash-cow drug war, neither do the drug lords want to see it ended. > > R.L. ROOT > Westminster > > > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: