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- From: norml@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Robert G Halvorson)
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- Subject: NORML: Sick of the WOD
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- Here is a letter from a member of the Living Proof Taskforce of the Seattle
- chapter of WCDPR. Share it, spread it, augment it ...
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 23:31 GMT
- From: "Gerald X. Diamond" <0003281350@mcimail.com>
- To: "Wayne Smith, NORML" <norml@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Subject: Letter requested by WCDPR member to combat destructive propaganda
-
- This is going to Channel 5
- ==========================
-
- My name is Katherine Donnelley. This refers to your lead story on December
- 1, 1992, showing the destruction of marijuana plants in Hawaii. It was
- presented in a manner derogatory to your public, and it falsely condemns a
- medicine that keeps people free from pain and imparts vision and insight.
- I want you to stop showing that [falsity] on TV.
-
- We (people who are sick or disabled) are not pawns to be used in your phony
- war on drugs. We, the sick, are the people you are fighting. We are sick
- and tired of paying more than its weight in gold for our medication and
- having to go to the streets for it, which is more dangerous than the drug
- itself. You have to understand that we are fighting for our LIVES. We do
- not want to have to fight our government also. I don't want to go around
- begging for medicine for $300 bucks an ounce; all I want is the freedom to
- grow it for free.
-
- We want the right to choose what goes into our bodies and the right to
- decide what we believe helps us. I'm searching for medical FACTS on the
- uses of cannabis and in the criminal justice atmosphere you are creating
- this makes it impossible for us to know the truth. It makes the search
- dangerous.
-
- We are tired of being planetary social outcasts because we suffer from
- gastroparesis or sclerderma or glaucoma or cancer or AIDS, for being sick
- and using a medication the government feels is so dangerous that harsh
- criminal penalties are imposed. We, the members of Living Proof, are going
- to take our rights back because we are too busy being sick or dying to care
- what the government thinks. Cannabis (Marijuana) is medicine. You can
- call it whatever you want to, but it will not change that fact. It is an
- herb, not a drug and it is NOT dangerous -- it is an herb like camomile,
- comfrey, vervain, rose hips and thousands of other herbs that have been
- safely and effectively used by people for thousands of years.
-
- Marijuana is medicine. Whether you like it or not, whether you believe it
- or not, doesn't matter and you have no right telling me what to do with it
- or bad-mouthing it for public sensationalism. Our aim in life is to follow
- the universal law of self-preservation. The number one law is survival.
- We cannot help but follow this basic, instinctive law.
-
- Your approach to survival is to advocate destruction of a useful plant:
- cannabis hemp grown for its psycoactive and pharmacoactive benefits.
- We are not willing to suffer and die so someone who is obviously corrupt
- can sit in hills of bills. We believe this is asking too much of any
- American. We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
-
- In the words of the DEA's chief administrative law judge, Francis Young,
- "Marijuana, in its natural form, is the safest therapeutically active
- substance known to humankind." I believe that death is more detrimental to
- my health than cannabis.
-
- Under the guise of "safe and effective" is a pill called Marinol. It is
- the same thing as marijuana but it is called "safe and effective" so that
- drug companies can make a buck off of it. How can they say one is safe and
- effective when the natural product is equally safe and effective.
-
- Your misuse of the TV media to promote destructive acts paid for by
- taxpayer dollars has produced enough mental suffering. Now, it is time to
- put a stop to it, or shut down the media that continue to promote violence,
- destruction and bigotry by teaching people to call drug users "addicts"
- instead of "patients". By denigrating our character and inciting the
- "thrill of the chase" in law enforcement people, you make it necessary for
- us to hide from society our necessary use of this drug, or go to jail.
- Imprisonment is NOT a solution to medical problems. Legalization of
- cannabis, on the other hand, IS a solution, and deserves equal air time.
-
- I will march my patients off to war against this cruel hoax of a ":war on
- drugs". It is not a war on drugs -- it is a money war on people, including
- sick people. Stop condemning our medicine and tell the truth about it!!!!
-
- Catherine Donnelly
- P.O. Box 3504
- Silverdale, WA 98383-3504
- Tel: 206-297-4179
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-