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The Marijuana War in Denver, Colorado
Stuart Wong/Gazette Telegraph Doreen Bishop Demonstrating For Medical
Marijuana
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph August 11, 1994
Backing marijuana for medical purposes Colorado Springs police Sgt.
Phillip LeBeau points to where Connie Barr-Rowe, left, and Doreen Bishop
can conduct their demonstration for the legalization of marijuana for
medicinal purposes during a meeting of police chiefs at the Sheraton
Colorado Springs Hotel.  Gov.  Roy Romer spoke to the chiefs Tuesday.
Bishop, a cancer patient, said, "We're good citizens.  We're here to
support the police."
Colorado's Forbidden Medicine July 23, 1993, 7-10p.m.  Radisson Hotel
Denver 1550 Court Place Majestic Ballroom
The Denver Medical Marijuana Initiative cordially invites you to attend our
free conference "Colorado's Forbidden Medicine?"on the evening of July 23.
Dr.  Lester Grinspoon, author of "Marihuana, The Forbidden Medicine", will
be our guest speaker followed by a panel discussion.  Our panel will
include Dr.  William Robinson and former State Representative Miller Hudson
among others.
The Denver Medical Marijuana Conference was held on July 23, 1993 in
downtown Denver.  More information about this conference will put on this
page in the future.  Former State Representative Miller Hudson was the
original sponsor of the, now repealed, Colorado medical marijuana law,
(CRS) 25-5-901.  A female medical marijuana patient from his district in
Capitol Hill asked him to pass legislation to provide medical marijuana so
that she did not have to purchase it from criminals on the street.  That
was in 1979.  Miller won his seat and introduced his act to provide legal
access to medicinal marijuana.  He kept his promise to his constituents,
and is a hero to medical marijuana patients in Colorado.  Despite his
efforts, in the fourteen years that the act was on the books, not one ounce
of marijuana was ever provided to any patient.  In America there are so
many laws on the books that every American is a criminal.  The government
cannot arrest everyone, instead they decide which groups to arrest.
Marijuana users are only one of many "groups" of Americans currently
targeted for routine and systematic malicious prosecution of the laws.
James Conner's Speech Sept.  29, 1991 Colorado State Capitol, Denver
Good afternoon people, I'm a person with AIDS.  I got it through an
acquaintance rape.  No matter if you're a man or a woman, you've got to be
careful these days.
There's a syndrome with AIDS, that affects thousands of people across
America called "wasting syndrome." I used to weigh 155 pounds; I went down
to 115 pounds, a 40 pound loss.  I was vomiting up my food in the morning,
noon and night sometimes.  Now Cannabis, we all know, gives you not only
the "munchies" and replaces your appetite, it prevents nausea...it prevents
that vomiting.  Thousands of AIDS patients could benefit from smoking
marijuana.
photo by G.  Daurer
There's a pill out now called Marinol.  I am finally being cleared after
months of effort through my doctor and my pharmacist to fill this
prescription of Marinol, which is a dronabinol.  It takes him about a week
to fill it each time.  What do I do during that week, but sit there, sick
and ill.  That is wrong.  People with AIDS, people with cancer, glaucoma,
and other illnesses need this medicine.  This is not a recreational matter,
but a matter of medical humanitarian efforts.  I'm just here to inform you
of the Hell people go through, who are ill, who are denied proper access to
medicine through our government, because of their lies on this drug war.
Now I respect my doctors' wishes.  I did not take today's dosage of Marinol
to drive up here today.  He has advised me strictly, do not drive on this
substance and I say please do not smoke pot and drive too.  But if you need
Cannabis to live, I was told by clinical trial research nurses ...two of
them...to grow marijuana in my apartment.  These were people giving me DDC
to stymie the AIDS virus.  They told me when they saw me losing more
weight, not eating...they told me to grow marijuana in my apartment and
that gave me stress.  I told them each time that's a felony in this state.
I cannot afford incarceration.  I told them that.  They told me twice to
grow marijuana.  The third time, they gave me a sheet on how to grow
medicinal plants and herbs in my closet.
I broke down and called a counseling center for a second opinion.  They
went and broke my confidence and went to the clinical trial research nurses
and they implicated the ill in this.  They said it was my idea and they
didn't tell me that.  I called up, since this was the clinical trial
research associated with the Denver County.  I called up the Denver Police
Department and asked them, "What do I do?" The left hand is telling me to
grow it and the right hand is saying they'll throw me in jail if I do.  So,
well the officer was a good officer, one of Denver's finest, he said, "If I
were you I would grow it."
Now what type of message is that sending to the people?  We have a
"rigmarole," merry-go-round system where people are dying from terminal
illnesses, are going blind from incurable blindness.  What are we going to
do?  I've written Schroeder, I've talked to Tim Wirth's office.  I have
called the president five times.  What good does it do when they are deaf?
They cannot smoke a joint and get their ears open.
All I'm asking from you is to become active to free your friends.  Remember
this commercial on TV - you can get AIDS from smoking marijuana or drinking
- is a lie.  You cannot catch AIDS from passing a joint around with a
person infected with HIV.  People have to know the truth.  The children,
the adults, everybody has to know the truth about marijuana.  Marijuana
saved my life when I was "wasting away." I sing the Elton John song
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight," and it was a Mexican farmer and I thank
him today.
James C.  Conner, surreal artist and musician, died July 4, 1993 of AIDS at
age 37.
Other stories about the struggle in Denver and Colorado.
 * The People of the State of Colorado vs.  Laura Kriho Case# 96CR91 August
24 - Gilpin County, Colo.  --- In a case that threatens to destroy trial by
jury, a Gilpin County judge has charged a juror with contempt of court for
deliberating "improperly" in a jury room.  The prosecution of this juror
threatens the very foundations of American justice by inquiring into
confidential jury deliberations and forcing jurors to testify against each
other.
 * Please read the latest on the Laura Kriho Case.
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