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Newsbrief:
San
Diego
Medical
Marijuana
Rally
to
Go
Transnational
11/15/02
The Transnational Radical
Party's (http://www.radicalparty.org)
Marco Cappato is joining with California medical marijuana activists in
San Diego today (Friday, November 15) to protest the DEA arrest and imminent
prosecution of registered medical marijuana patient Steve McWilliams on
federal marijuana cultivation charges. Cappato, a Member of the European
Parliament (MEP), is the coordinator of Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist
Action and a leading international fighter against drug prohibition.
He has been nominated by European Voice as one of the most influential
members of the European Parliament. Cappato was recently fined in
Manchester, England, for civil disobedience in support of Manchester coffeeshop
owner Colin Davies, who is now serving a jail sentence for operating the
shop.
McWilliams, a vocal proponent
of medical marijuana, was arrested October 11 for growing a modest marijuana
garden -- one of a series of DEA arrests and prosecutions of medical marijuana
caregivers and providers in recent months. He and his partner, Barbara
McKenzie, have been ordered to abstain from marijuana as a condition of
their bail, and they say they are suffering as a result, according to a
press release from California NORML (http://www.canorml.org).
Also attending will be the
San Diego medical marijuana task force's patient advocate, Michael Barbee.
According to the press release, medical marijuana supporters have found
that the drug czar's office has provided some $400,000 to local groups
opposing medical marijuana. Those groups are working to thwart the
city's efforts to establish guidelines for medical marijuana under the
state's Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215).
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Issue #263, 11/15/02
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