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Supreme Court rules on medical marijuana - tell Congress to act
In an historic decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 - 3 that the federal
government can continue arresting patients who are using medical marijuana legally
under state law.
government can continue arresting patients who are using medical marijuana legally
under state law.
Dear MPP supporter:
In an historic decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 - 3 that the federal
government can continue arresting patients who are using medical marijuana legally
under state law. However, the decision did not overturn the medical marijuana laws
in 10 states, which still protect patients from arrest by state and local police.
The Marijuana Policy Project's grants program provided the majority of the funding
for this litigation, which is only the second medical marijuana case ever to reach
the Supreme Court.
TAKE ACTION
Now that the Court has ruled, we need you to spring into action. Please visit
http://hinchey.kintera.org to send a free fax or e-mail to your U.S. representative
to ask him or her to protect medical marijuana patients, since the ball is now in
Congress' court. In fact, a medical marijuana amendment is scheduled to come to the
House floor for a vote next week. Our goal is to send 10,000 letters to Congress by
the time of the vote, but we won't be able to achieve that goal without your help.
Then, please visit http://www.RaichAction.org to participate in a demonstration
outside of your U.S. representative's local district office at noon on Wednesday,
June 8.
BACKGROUND
In its ruling in Ashcroft v. Raich, the Supreme Court said that Congress -- not the
Court -- must be the institution to change federal law to protect medical marijuana
patients from arrest.
Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that there are other legal
options for patients, "but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is
the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents
may one day be heard in the halls of Congress."
By stressing the need for plaintiffs to use the democratic process, the Supreme
Court has clearly put the ball in Congress' court. This makes next week's vote in
the U.S. House of Representatives all the more significant.
STATE LAWS UNAFFECTED
The ruling does not affect states' ability to pass new medical marijuana laws;
states are free to continue enacting laws that protect medical marijuana patients
and their providers from arrest and prosecution by state and local law enforcement
officials.
What the Supreme Court has done is continue the status quo: Patients in the 10
states with medical marijuana laws are protected under state law but will continue
to risk prosecution under federal law. In other words, the Court's decision means
that nothing has changed. Visit http://www.mpp.org/raich for background on the case.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PROTECT PATIENTS
Since it's now clear that patients cannot count on the federal courts for
protection, we must push harder than ever for Congress to change federal law.
We need you to lobby Congress to end the federal government's attacks on medical
marijuana patients and caregivers. Please visit http://www.RaichAction.org to learn
how you can help pressure Congress to protect medical marijuana patients.
Then -- if you agree that sick and suffering patients should not have to live in
fear of armed federal agents breaking down the patients' doors to take away their
medicine -- please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate3015 to ensure that MPP has the
necessary funds to push hard this week and next for Congress to pass an amendment
that would prevent the DEA from arresting medical marijuana patients or providers
who are acting legally under state law.
Thank you,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
====================================================================The Marijuana
Policy Project hopes that each of the 121,000 subscribers on our national e-mail
list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in 2005. Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate3015 to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2005 strategic plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2005plan -- if you and other allies are generous enough to fund
our work.
In an historic decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 - 3 that the federal
government can continue arresting patients who are using medical marijuana legally
under state law. However, the decision did not overturn the medical marijuana laws
in 10 states, which still protect patients from arrest by state and local police.
The Marijuana Policy Project's grants program provided the majority of the funding
for this litigation, which is only the second medical marijuana case ever to reach
the Supreme Court.
TAKE ACTION
Now that the Court has ruled, we need you to spring into action. Please visit
http://hinchey.kintera.org to send a free fax or e-mail to your U.S. representative
to ask him or her to protect medical marijuana patients, since the ball is now in
Congress' court. In fact, a medical marijuana amendment is scheduled to come to the
House floor for a vote next week. Our goal is to send 10,000 letters to Congress by
the time of the vote, but we won't be able to achieve that goal without your help.
Then, please visit http://www.RaichAction.org to participate in a demonstration
outside of your U.S. representative's local district office at noon on Wednesday,
June 8.
BACKGROUND
In its ruling in Ashcroft v. Raich, the Supreme Court said that Congress -- not the
Court -- must be the institution to change federal law to protect medical marijuana
patients from arrest.
Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that there are other legal
options for patients, "but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is
the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents
may one day be heard in the halls of Congress."
By stressing the need for plaintiffs to use the democratic process, the Supreme
Court has clearly put the ball in Congress' court. This makes next week's vote in
the U.S. House of Representatives all the more significant.
STATE LAWS UNAFFECTED
The ruling does not affect states' ability to pass new medical marijuana laws;
states are free to continue enacting laws that protect medical marijuana patients
and their providers from arrest and prosecution by state and local law enforcement
officials.
What the Supreme Court has done is continue the status quo: Patients in the 10
states with medical marijuana laws are protected under state law but will continue
to risk prosecution under federal law. In other words, the Court's decision means
that nothing has changed. Visit http://www.mpp.org/raich for background on the case.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PROTECT PATIENTS
Since it's now clear that patients cannot count on the federal courts for
protection, we must push harder than ever for Congress to change federal law.
We need you to lobby Congress to end the federal government's attacks on medical
marijuana patients and caregivers. Please visit http://www.RaichAction.org to learn
how you can help pressure Congress to protect medical marijuana patients.
Then -- if you agree that sick and suffering patients should not have to live in
fear of armed federal agents breaking down the patients' doors to take away their
medicine -- please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate3015 to ensure that MPP has the
necessary funds to push hard this week and next for Congress to pass an amendment
that would prevent the DEA from arresting medical marijuana patients or providers
who are acting legally under state law.
Thank you,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
====================================================================The Marijuana
Policy Project hopes that each of the 121,000 subscribers on our national e-mail
list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in 2005. Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate3015 to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2005 strategic plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2005plan -- if you and other allies are generous enough to fund
our work.
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The full decision, in PDF, is posted here:
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/pdf/raichdecision.pdf
More about the case here:
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/AshcroftRaich.htm
The full decision, in PDF, is posted here:
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/pdf/raichdecision.pdf
More about the case here:
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/AshcroftRaich.htm
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
review of Fluoride Deception
written by
salmon breath
Fluoride and nuclear weapons manufacture in the 1950's exposed many North American citizens of African descent to radiation and fluoride exposure..
Cleveland's Area C aluminum military manufacture during WW2 exposed workers to airborne fluoride causing physical injury and death of African american workers..
Trade in fluoride research exposre was traded between Nazi Germany's petrochemical conglomerate IG Farben (now Bayer-Hoechst, Syngenta, etc.) and US corporations like Alcoa Aluminum and Standard Oil connected to the Dupont and Rockefeller Family. Fluoride was needed in obtaining aluminum for airplanes by the militarization and industrialization of both Germany and the United States. Racism and classism arose in American factorys in Cleveland and Detroit as facism and industrialism mirrored in Nazi Germany. Workers and concentration camp inmates were both exposed routinely to fluoride to observe defeceit behavior of the central nervous system when exposed to fluoride gas..
Prescott Bush's funding of Hitler's Nazi party makes diabolical sense in the case that securing the Middle Eastern Saudi Oil reserves benefits his current empire under grandson George W. Bush..
The research findings of damage to the central nervous system from fluoride exposure was not disclosed to the public as a result of intimidation tactics like Dr. Harold Hodge against animal research scientists like Dr. Physllis Mullinex. She discovered that airborne fluoride gas exposure increases chances of cancer in rats. She later discovered that longtime mentor Harlod Hodge also knew this information (earlier research in fluoride exposure in human/worker test subjects also causes cancer, the rats were even tested needlessly) decades earlier and suppressed it. Workers in Cleveland area c were exposed to airborne fluoride that was witnessed to shear flesh from people as they were running away from an explosion. The fluoride tanker was in Cleveland's Area C where daily exposure do airborne fluoride led to such diseases as skeletal and dental fluorosis, a hardening, mottling and brittling of the bone. This exposure occurred to workers as part of the regular 40 hour workweek..
While animal research is invasive to an innocent species, it is also not as accurate as is human research. It is difficult to get volunteers, the corporations then expose people unwillingly. the United States government began testing fluoride on human beings. Most of the information was being sought by corporations like Reynolds aluminum and the US military. Workers, people of lower income color were target groups for this research..
Prisoners in United States are exposed to pharmaceutical research in psychiatric medications by US corporations like Eli Lily, again with economic ties to George W Bush. Prozac, the brand name Fluoextipine also contains fluoride and possibly helps tranquilizing people into a state of partial lobotomy delirium. Active parts of the brain are disabled, thoughts become clouded and the subject sinks into a blissful state.
Often prisoners are given psychotropics as tranquilizers. Forced psychiatric medication is to coerce people into accepting unnatural conditions of confinement for long periods of time without experiencing natural mental revulsion expressed as a termed "mental illness" that psychiatirsts attept to treat with petrochemical based pharmaceutical products like Prozac, Zyprexa, Haldol, Lithium, etc..
The side effects include Tardiff Dyskenisia (partial paralysis of the neck) are long term and severe, with other regular symptoms of drowsiness, kidney problems, motor difficulty, etc..
Prison labor below minimum wage is the new slavery. African Mexican and other low income people are forced to work below minimum wage for long hours at some of California's prisons. The forced medication with psychiatric pharmaceutrical products also enables prison workers to stay focused on long boring tasks like computer circuit board welding. Corporations are gearing up for a peak oil recession and beginning the martial law/ prison police state facist mechanism here in North America, US corporations now dependent on prison and sweatshop slave labor here in US prisons
California Deptartment of Corrections takes advantage of rural and low income communities when they build their prisons. Crescent City's Pelican Bay State Prison was dropped on the town shortly after a tidal wave and after timber corporations had overlogged hillsides. This also occurs in the new desert prisons of Southern California. The economically struggling community was promised jobs and a renewed economy yet today many CDC workers are struggling with depression, alcoholism and a CDC union that seems to be in league with the US military/Homeland Security Gestapo. Anyone who tries talking as a whistleblower against CDC pattern of oppression needs to flee Crescent City in safety of their lives..
Maybe someday people will realize prisons are ineffective ways of dealing with human beings and/or animals and need to be removed. Society needs to deal with prevention of crimes by true methods of ending poverty and racial, economic, sexual and homophobic discrimination. Remove these inequlaities and we may witness a drop in violent crime, rape and violence against children. Recreational use of plants like cannibas should be encouraged as medicinal for human beings if they choose this supplement. Corporate control of tobacco plant by plantation owners RJ Reynolds/ Phillip Morris needs to be replaced by a healthy outlook for tobacco as a sacred plant, not something to be sprayed with toxic pesticides and harvested by underpaid workers for the profit of a corporation..
When we respect the innocense of even somewhat unpleasant animals like rats, spiders, etc., we may discover this respect extends to other less fortunate humans also. We may wish to remove these bugs from our homes, but purposefully exposing animals to known chemical toxins is cruel behavior. We need to eliminate the manufacture of toxins by getting to the source of production. Then neither workers, prisoners, or animals will be exposed to toxins that can remove their life vital energy that allows people to wake up and smile at a lovely day..
Nuclear weapons and fluoride in water are other intrusions in our lives from corporate military that we could all do without. We need to stop exposing workers to toxins and allowing these toxins into our ecosystems..
George W Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush Regime need to be removed from US office of pResidency (for Earth safety, prevention of The Nuclear Holocaust) and tried for war crimes at the Hague. The charges include unauthorized invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq and the attempted genocide of the Iraqi people by exposure to fragments of depleted uranium. The actions of Jeb Bush in Florida include environmental and civil rights violations and need to be examined in the view of Bush family history beginning with the financial support of Prescott Bush for Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany..
People don't have to live in fear of nuclear holocaust if we clean up our own backyard and begin reducing nuclear weapons in Nevada, Newe Sogobia, Utah, New Mexico and other locations throughout North America where residents have suffered too long with cancer from the constant low level radiation emmission and threat of nuclear accident. No further spending on nuclear weapons military budget until scientists are given adequate time to neutralize nuclear waste into a safe product..
Fluoride Action Network; Linx between fluoride and nuclear weapons, Mullinex research discovered central nervous system malfunction linked to fluoride in rats;
some fluoride related info above in greater detail/accuracy found in;
"The Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson
seven stories books
http://www.sevenstoriesbooks.com
http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception2.htm
No nuclear waste in Nevada/Newe Sogobia:
Nuclear waste info on Yucca Mountain covered up by Dept of Energy. Research indicated that the storage chamber is likely to experience leaking. Bechtel Nevada continued with the mining operation and exposed workers to mineral silica fragment known to cause lung disease called silicosis after mineral fragement shards enter lung tissue. Inadequate masks were provided despite Bechtel's knowledge that the shard inhalation would cause this disease in worker's lung tissue. Many workers were residents of Nevada/Newe Sogobia and were coerced into working for Bechtel due to regional poverty of Walker Lake and other nearby communities. Temporary labor would bus African, Mexican and low income transients from downtown Las Vegas for short term drilling operations, no insurance provided after the job was finished..
No nuclear waste disposal in Goshutes Sovereign Land Skull Valley;
No Nuclear Waste in Nevada/Newe Sogobia!
http://www.shundahai.org/
Los Alamos Study Group;
http://www.lasg.org/
Cascadia Rising!
http://www.cascadiarising.org/topic/ksan/
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