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Fusarium Oxysporum

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:42:18 -0400
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Subject: DPFFL: FLORIDA ACTIVISTS AND NORML FUNGUS
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Look Guys NORML's taken up where we left off!!]
GO, TOM DEAN, GO!!!


October 28, 1999

    NORML Foundation Files FOIA With Five Federal Agencies 
On Anti-Marijuana Fungus

    Oct. 28, 1999, Washington, DC: The NORML Foundation has filed a Freedom 
of Information Act (FOIA) request with five U.S. Government agencies in 
an attempt to retrieve all information pertaining to the study and use of 
the cannabis killing fungus, Fusarium Oxysporum.
    FOIA requests were sent this week to The United States Department of 
Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, 
U.S. State Department and the U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey's Office. 
NORML Foundation requested a copy of "all records pertaining to the use 
of Fusarium Oxysporum as a pathogen to the Cannabis species of plant." 
    The fungus was developed at Montana State University at Bozeman in 
conjunction with a private company. In August, Montana NORML filed a 
civil rights lawsuit against the university seeking to receive all 
documents about the fungus possessed by the researchers. Florida state 
drug czar Jim McDonough has also expressed interest in using the fungus 
despite claims the fungus could be harmful to the environment. Reform 
activists in Florida have filed similar FOIA requests with their state 
agencies. 
    "We hope to obtain enough information to prove that the government is 
funding field experiments with the fungus," said Tom Dean, Esq., NORML 
Foundation Litigation Director. "These tests present a very real threat 
to the environment and to legal agricultural crops."
    "There is no such thing as a 'controlled' field test of a microscopic 
fungus," he continued. "Once the Genie is out of the bottle there is no 
going back."
    For more information, please contact Tom Dean, Esq., NORML Foundation 
Litigation Director. 

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