In a message dated 15 May 96  19:45:37, Jay Bergstrom wrote:
 JB> Editor:
 JB>   While a medical marijuana initiative heads toward the November
 JB> ballot, a Shasta County couple have become the latest medical
 JB> marijuana patients to be arrested in california.
 JB>   Marshall Loskot, a paraplegic, and his wife Marilyn, who suffers
 JB> from Crohn's disease, were booked on marijuana charges after
 JB> sheriffs found nine plants and 1.5 pounds of marijuana in the
 JB> freezer on their farm in Platina.  The Loskosts, both of whom have
 JB> medical need for marijuana, were charged with intent to sell,
 JB> apparently because Marshall was convicted of a drug charges 12
 JB> years ago.  Loskot is facing two years in State prison.  The
 JB> quantity of marijuana in his home was equal to what the government
 JB> supplies every three months to each of the eight legal medical
 JB> marijuana patients in the US.
 JB>   Other patients recently arrested for medical marijuana in
 JB> California included: 1. Jessee Garcia, an AIDS patient from Gilroy,
 JB> charged with possessing a small amount of marijuana that guards
 JB> found in his backpack; 2. Barbara Sloniker, an AIDS patient from
 JB> Columbia, charged with possessing seven marijuana seeds in her
 JB> home; and 3. Janice Dubiel of Santa Rosa, a disabled veteran
 JB> arrested with a joint at a VA hospital, whose case was dismissed.
 JB> Dale Gieringer, NORML, San Francisco
Thank God we have the Clinton Crime Bill. 7 mj seeds - how dare she! Ready to 
start a major plantation I'd say.
Hope the DEA had BATF backup on these folks - sounds like some REAL dangerous 
radical hippies to me!
What a waste of money - I think DA's who try and prosecute these should be 
held in contempt of court, made to pay the court and trial costs out of their 
own paycheck and forced to go to jail for 30-60 days.
A little jail time would show em the real dangerous people they SHOULD be 
prosecuting.
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