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Illinois
Bill
Criminalizes
Marijuana
Information
on
the
Internet
4/9/99
(reprinted from
the NORML Weekly News, http://www.norml.org)
April 8, 1999, Springfield,
IL: The state House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation
that would impose criminal penalties on those who transmit information
pertaining to marijuana on the Internet if they "know that the information
will be used in furtherance of illegal activity."
NORML Executive Director
R. Keith Stroup, Esq. noted, "Under this measure, someone could legally
transmit information about potentially violent activities like building
bombs, but face criminal prosecution for posting messages about the documented
medical uses of marijuana. This is an attempt to circumvent the first
amendment guarantee of free speech by turning the transmission of certain
factual information via the Internet into a 'thought crime.' Proponents
of this type of legislation are the equivalent of modern day book-burners."
House Bill 792, introduced
by Rep. Gerald Mitchell (R-Rock Falls), seeks to make the transmission
of "information about cannabis by the Internet" a Class A misdemeanor if
the provider is aware the information could be used for an illegal activity.
The Senate Judiciary will hold hearings on the proposal next Wednesday.
The House approved the measure 114 to zero.
To read more about H.B. 792
or additional pending state marijuana legislation, visit the NORML website
at http://www.norml.org/laws/stateleg1999.html.
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Issue #86, 4/9/99
Driving While Non-White | Search and Seizure Protections Weakened | 53 Year-old Grandmother Robbed, Beaten While Trying to Buy Cannabis for Her Arthritis | California's Y2K (+1) Crisis | Illinois Bill Criminalizes Marijuana Information on the Internet | Report: Crises of the Anti-Drug Effort, 1999 | New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition -- ACTION Alert | Leaders of South American Indigenous Peoples Challenge US Ayahuasca Patent | EXHIBIT: Human Rights and the Drug War in Virginia | Gore 2000 or Gore 1984? | Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics | Cato Forums: Jesse Ventura, Prosecutorial Abuse, Forfeiture Reform | Editorial: There Oughta Be a Law: Protecting the Masses from Themselves
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