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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Where is my Doctor? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 1997 a gallstone passed into my pancreas setting off a chain reaction leading to an acute episode of Pancreatitis. Taken by ambulance to a trauma center I flat lined briefly from hypovolemic shock. The next year was a haze of hospitals, CAT Scans, probes, tubes, surgery, and most of all pain. I went from 185 lbs to 120 lbs and was pronounced terminal with Chronic Necrotizing Pancreatitis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Somehow I began to recover and once off the narcotics was able to
return to my work in medicine. I am a Scientific Researcher and Health
Administrator. The trouble is the pain never stops and I can't just be
snowed under with morphine if I wish to make my contribution to
society. My physicians, the best in Los Angeles, recommended that I try
cannabis. They told me privately they had patients who had received
considerable pain relief from cannabis and that it would treat my
malabsorbtion and help me gain weight. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The doctors who saved my life and now want to help me live with the pain can only talk to me about cannabis. They have consulted their lawyers who have told them in no uncertain terms that despite Proposition 215 being the law of California with no Federal Challenge, the DEA has bluntly told physicians here that if they recommend cannabis their DEA number and possibly their very license will be taken. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I was ready to go to a sanctioned Cannabis Buyers Club but can't because physicians in California and elsewhere are being intimidated by the Federal Government. My doctor's best advice was to go the black market where no standards are kept and I am subject to arrest, prosecution, and jail not to mention the loss of a 30-year career. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Our laws are being subverted. Tactics of a government I once loved have
become totalitarian. I saw fear in my physician's eyes and profound
sadness that he could not help his patient sitting in front of him in
extremis. My God what has happened to us. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I will live with the pain and my frail frame but I will not accept that my vote means nothing, that my representatives are frightening the very people we count on to help us in need. I do not accept that our Government would rather have sick and dying patients go to the streets and the drug dealers and the scum risking everything rather than receiving proper professional medical care. It is wrong. It is immoral. It is unconscionable and indefensible. I will ask my friends, my fellow Scientists, and anyone else who will listen to write their Congressional Representative to stop this humiliating abuse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I was so skeptical to hear stories of how our DEA and local police had
become jack booted troopers of oppression. Fantasies of some hippies
that got stoned too much in the sixties I thought. But no. My God it is
actually true and happening here. Our Government is here to protect our
liberties not sow fear and propaganda. Where is the America I believed
in? Where is my doctor? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In a week dominated by prison and law enforcement issues; the policy
arena was relatively quiet; echoes of earlier stories commanded the
most attention- for example: TV producers saw nothing wrong with
McCzar's flexible definition of PSA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) HOLLYWOOD DEFENDS WHITE HOUSE DRUG PACT TO CONGRESS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Television executives told Congress Wednesday
they did not pander to the government's anti-drug campaign when they
showed officials popular TV shows containing anti-drug themes in return
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COMMENT: (2) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fortunately, others had a better grasp of the First Amendment. The Capital Times (WI) was one of the few newspapers to notice and comment on the censorship provision in the Hatch-Feinstein bill. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) EDITORIAL: LIMITING WEB SPEECH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold does not make many missteps in Washington. But he tripped up when he signed on as a backer of the constitutionally troublesome Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The language of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 is
riddled with loopholes that overzealous police agencies could use to
silence or restrict legitimate speech on the Internet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Governor Whitman's New Jersey predecessor became yet another
politician to formally endorse reform. OK- an ex-politician- but not
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(3) TAPPING INTO THE DRUG MARKET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former Gov. Brendan Byrne has an answer to America's drug problem:
decriminalize marijuana and make use of heroin and cocaine a disorderly
persons offense, with fines of $50 to $100 per offense. Then take the
billions of dollars saved on enforcement and pump it into education and
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On New Jersey Network's "Due Process" show, to air Wednesday at 6:30
p.m., Byrne says it's time to stop "tolerating politicians whose only
solution ... is to increase the penalties and make the sentences
mandatory." Byrne says the country needs to acknowledge that drug laws
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COMMENT: (4-5) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lest we get carried away, a familiar prohibition ally was busy
amplifying a report unfriendly to needle exchange and a 3-judge panel
from the normally fair Ninth Circuit upheld an oppressive federal
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(4) THIS IS NO WAY TO FIGHT THE DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Plan To Help Addicts With Free Needles May End Up Feeding Their Habit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PARKED NEXT to an abandoned lot on Baltimore's south side, the big cream-colored recreational vehicle seems out of place. So, too, do the dozen-odd men and women who gather by the RV's side door, most of them carrying brown-paper lunch sacks filled with used syringes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anderson, who is a carpenter, described his addiction as "a miserable way
of life, a game of Russian roulette." He was glad the needle exchange
exists but added that what he needed was help breaking his habit, not
easier access to more needles. "This program is not helping your
addiction," he said. "It's just giving you an endless supply of clean
needles with which to put the drugs into your veins." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) COURT ALLOWS EVICTIONS OF TENANTS UNAWARE OF RELATIVES' DRUG USE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO - A public housing tenant can be evicted for a
household member's drug use even if the tenant was unaware of it, a
federal appeals court ruled Monday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The federal government's "one-strike" eviction policy, which applies
to more than 3 million low-income tenants nationwide, is a reasonable
step toward making public housing safe and drug-free, said the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (6-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's oddly fitting that our two millionth prisoner should be incarcerated in the same week that stories of police excesses and corruption produced more national headlines than never before. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's also sadly typical that a foreign newspaper, the Guardian- was
the only major daily to notice the Vigil mounted by a coalition of
reform organizations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From New York to California, our more intelligent columnists are at
least beginning to emphasize the central role of the drug war in
producing America's major social catastrophes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(6) ANGER GROWS AS US JAILS ITS TWO MILLIONTH INMATE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vigils are being mounted today in more than 30 major cities in the United States to draw attention to the arrival of the two millionth inmate in American jails. The US comprises 5% of the global population yet it is responsible for 25% of the world's prisoners. It has a higher proportion of its citizens in jail than any other country in history, according to the November Coalition, an alliance of civil rights campaigners, justice policy workers and drug law reformers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The coalition is co-ordinating protests across the US to draw attention
to what they feel is a trend for locking up ever more offenders, most
of them non-violent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Two million is too many," said Nora Callahan of the coalition, which
is calling for alternatives to prison for the country's 500,000
non-violent drug offenders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) IN AMERICA - CRIMINAL JUSTICE BREAKDOWN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The gruesome problems in the criminal justice system that have been overlooked for so many years are starting to burst into public view, and the system is breaking down in some parts of the country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There is an epidemic of police and prosecutorial misconduct and incompetence in this country. The scandals in Los Angeles and Illinois are festering sores, symptoms of a complex disease that both threatens and -- to the extent that we ignore it -- shames us all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) COLUMN: TRUCE NEEDED IN DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today, Feb. 15, America's prisons are expected to reach a population of
2 million inmates. Vigils and protests are planned in more than 30
cities to mark this miserable milestone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Although violent crime has steadily dropped, our prison population has
nearly tripled in 15 years. The reason for the skyrocketing figure is
simple: the war on drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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We, the people, need to drill the message into our leaders' thick
skulls to get the government out of our private lives. Until we do, we
can expect a society in turmoil. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) A NATION OF TOO MANY PRISONERS? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With Inmate Population Nearing 2 Million, Many Question The Punishment
Over Prevention Approach. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW ORLEANS--Presumed innocent, they shuffle into the sooty, granite
fortress on Tulane Avenue every morning, ankles shackled, hands chained
to their hips. Every evening, at least a dozen leave Orleans Parish
Criminal District Court as felons, an exodus of the desperate, foolish,
heartless and addicted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drug offenders account for the greatest percentage of new inmates, yet hardly anyone believes the drug war is any closer to being won. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The poignant story of how a young black women and her family were
literally entrapped into becoming victims of the Rockefeller laws
makes interesting and instructive reading. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(10) THE MISEDUCATION OF ELAINE BARTLETT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New York's War on Drugs Held Her Hostage for 16 Years. A Story of
Prison, Politics, and One Woman's Pride. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
By the time the sheriff's van lurched into the parking lot, she no
longer cared if anyone noticed her wet cheeks and swollen eyes. Tears
had been rolling down Elaine Bartlett's face for two hoursóthe entire
drive from Albany to Westchester County and she struggled to wipe them
away with handcuffed hands. Locked up for the last four months in an
Albany jail, Elaine had heard plenty of horror stories about her new
home, ugly rumors that swirled through her head. The women at Bedford
Hills will attack you, rape you, steal all your stuff. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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...And Elaine had no way of knowing that African Americans and Latinos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
She also didn't know that law enforcement officials routinely lured
people from New York City to Albany because of the capital's
reputation for tough-on-drugs judges. ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (11) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Denver, the police chief victimized by the Mena fiasco relatively early
in his term was forced to resign shortly after being recalled from an
ill-advised vacation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(11) DENVER POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS AFTER 18 MONTHS OF CONTROVERSY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DENVER, Feb. 9 -- Mayor Wellington Webb began a search today for a new
police chief after a series of problems, including the accidental
shooting death of a man in a botched drug raid, led him to seek the
resignation of a 30-year veteran of the force who served less than 18
months as its chief. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (12-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A story from Baltimore illustrates that planting "evidence" is not
confined exclusively to LA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Speaking of LA: although the Times has become a veritable fountain of
information about the spreading scandal, its frequent editorials
remain strangely myopic by failing to see any connection with drug
policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(12) OFFICER IS ACCUSED OF PLANTING DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Complaints from police in Carroll spur probe by Md. attorney general | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The state attorney general's office is investigating a Westminster police officer for allegedly trying to plant drugs on suspects, an inquiry that could force the dismissal of more than a hundred criminal drug cases in which the officer was involved, officials said yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) GETTING TO BOTTOM AND TOP (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For a true cleanup, investigators must find out how deep and how high
the Rampart corruption reaches. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It sounded like an over-the-top television script, but these were
real-life allegations in the Los Angeles Police Department: corrupt
cops planting rock cocaine on unsuspecting victims; officers selling
stolen drugs to traffickers instead of arresting them; cops kidnapping
gang members, stripping them naked and dropping them in rival gang
territory; cops shooting a man and then allowing him to bleed to death
while they concocted a scenario to justify the shooting;... Allegations
of police planting evidence--the mere possibility of which was scoffed
at during the O.J. Simpson trial--are now just one of a long list of
charges being leveled against the LAPD. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (14-15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In California, a judge's ruling seems to guarantee that the
long-awaited trial of Steve and Michele Kubby will finally get
underway. The addition of famed defense attorney Tony Serra adds to
the anticipation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Redding Record-Searchlight, which covered the recent acquittals of
two patients who also grew their own, summarized the attendant law
enforcement posturing in a recent editorial. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(14) KUBBYS' TRIAL BEGINS TUESDAY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Judge Turns Down Continuance Request | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medical marijuana proponents Steven and Michele Kubby appeared in an
Auburn courtroom Monday seeking to delay a trial to prosecute them on
charges of possession of marijuana for sale. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
However, Judge James L. Roeder denied two motions to continue, saying
the case has dragged on for more than a year and has hit several bumps
along the road to trial. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Most recently, Steven Kubby filed on Feb. 10 for a counselor
substitution to replace Dale Woods with J. Tony Serra, a well-known San
Francisco attorney, to represent Steven Kubby. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) THE POT PROBLEM: VARYING APPROACHES CREATING CONFUSION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We're trying to understand all of this medical marijuana news that is
swirling around us here in the north state, and we suspect you are,
too. So, try to work through this with us. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (16) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fierce opposition from the DEA and its allies (including the governor)
scuttled a New Hampshire hemp bill that appeared headed toward
approval. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(16) HOUSE SHOOTS DOWN HEMP BILL (NH) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Its supporters got a brief glimpse at success, but hemp will not be
taking its place alongside lumber, apples and maple syrup as a
homegrown state product anytime soon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
By a vote of 192-152, the House yesterday rejected a bill to legalize
the growing of industrial hemp, the biological cousin of marijuana -
even after several House committees had approved the proposal. The
House did hold onto the bill for further study, casting it back into
the limbo it has occupied for much of the past three years as several
other states have proceeded to legalize the cash crop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (17) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Those interested in a concrete example of what harm reduction is all
about should read this description of a functioning Australian
facility in the shadow of a much-delayed official government injection
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(17) AUSTRALIA: SEARCHING FOR AN EPIPHANY IN A NEEDLE AND A TOURNIQUET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IT IS not yet 11am, and already more than 80 "sharps" lie in the scratched yellow box hanging off the wall. More are scattered on the ground, close to the rock that serves as an altar to heroin. This alcove, next to the Wesley Church in Lonsdale Street, is a communion site for more than 100 people every day. They come to hit-up and anyone interested in saving their souls will first have to save their lives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In Canada, Rene Boje was ordered extradited to the US; her fate now rests with a minister who has the power to deny the US request. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There was also disquieting evidence that Canadian law enforcement is
behaving more like their US counterparts; at least the youthful rave
employees were only strip-searched; not shot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(18) CANADA: HER FATE IN MINISTER'S HANDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The fate of a California woman trapped in a legal quagmire over the
medical use of marijuana is in the hands of Justice Minister Anne
McLellan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A B.C. Supreme Court judge yesterday signed an order to have Renee Danielle Boje extradited to Los Angeles, where a conviction on one of three drug charges would land her a minimum of 10 years in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(19) CANADA: EDITORIAL: RAVE BUST FLAWED FROM THE START (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
POLICE BUSTS for narcotics tend to target pot growers or known
traffickers and crack houses. Tips from informants or disgruntled gang
members are part of this long-lasting "war on drugs." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
But the battle seems to have gone seriously awry at a rave dance on
Maynard Street in Halifax last month. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First there was the uproar over Halifax Regional Police strip-searching
the rave's young employees - before the dance event actually began and
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From Britain- among a spate of articles on the split within Labour
over decriminalizing cannabis, came Simon Regan's personal
recollections of his own use- far too frank for a US columnist, but a
breath of fresh air, nevertheless. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(20) UK: THE CANNABIS ROW 2 - BY GOLLY, IT'S GOOD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The debate on the decriminalisation of cannabis has been a long time
coming. In 1965 a friend of mine was caught with an eighth of on ounce
on him and got five years in Maidstone jail. Only last week another
friend of mine was found with a similar amount and was let off with a
caution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In the 60s, I took cannabis largely because it induced mild mind expansion. Such things as music became more enchanting and fascinating. In the 90s my intake is (almost) all medicinal. On millennium eve, I cooked another cake and gave a slice to my octogenarian mother (who is severely arthritic) and a crusty old retired colonel from the Guards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As a Colombian debacle looms ever closer, the Washington Post gave US "aid" an unrealistic thumbs up (both the NY and LA Times dithered). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(21) EDITORIAL: YES ON AID TO COLOMBIA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE REVOLUTIONARY Armed Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym FARC) have been fighting for power for nearly four decades. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They have little support among Colombia's people, but thanks to payoffs
from the drug producers they protect, the FARC has grown into a
15,000-man army equipped with the best weapons and communications
technology money can buy--better, by and large, than the Colombian army
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The best reason for the aid, however, is that it will help in the
search for a negotiated settlement to the war, which is the strategic
objective of both President Pastrana and President Clinton. In this
respect, critics who say the administration's proposal would complicate
peace talks are falling for the FARC's bluff. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In fact, the FARC will not bargain in good faith unless confronted with
a credible military threat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NY Times: Dangerous Plans For Colombia http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n199/a10.html LA Times: Explain Colombia Aid http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n212/a05.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Forfeiture Site Encourages Letters to Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A new Web site has just gone on-line: http://www.forfeiture.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The forfeiture coalition's goal is to generate 100,000 letters from
constituents to their U.S. senators in the next two weeks -- before the
Senate Judiciary Committee votes on S. 1931, the Hatch/Leahy forfeiture
reform bill. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medical Marijuana Polls and Votes Info Page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Lake reports: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Ryan mentioned the following page he created during the chat this
evening, and I have to admit that it is very nice. Pulls together all the
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