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 LP> Sheriff May Have Violated Election Laws While Opposing NORML
 LP> Ballot Initiative
 LP> September 19, 1996, Traverse City, MI:  A state Attorney General
 LP> official said Grand Traverse County Sheriff Harold Barr's decision to
 LP> allow jail inmates to help put out flyers opposing a NORML ballot
 LP> initiative to decriminalize marijuana possession in Traverse City may
 LP> have violated state election laws.  The assertion comes nearly one
 LP> month after Traverse City NORML President Bill Bustance, who helped to
 LP> spearhead the initiative, filed a complaint with the secretary of
 LP> state alleging that taxpayers dollars were used to influence a
 LP> political campaign.  According to Michigan law, an organization that
 LP> knowingly violates campaign finance rules could be fined $20,000.
 LP> Michigan Attorney General spokesman Chris Dewitt said the use of
 LP> inmates "certainly would be questionable under Michigan's law."
 LP> Marijuana law isn't any more important than election law and we
 LP> are appalled that [those against the initiative] had to break the law
 LP> to beat us," said Bustance, who is seeking a new election.  "What
 LP> would have happened if they hadn't used taxpayer's dollars against
 LP> the taxpayers?"
 LP> Voters narrowly rejected the proposal this past August.
 LP> For more information, please contact Bill Bustance of Traverse
 LP> City NORML @ (616) 264-9565.
 LP> Mass/Cann NORML Rally Expected To Draw More Than 50,000
 LP> September 19, 1996, Boston, MA:  Mass/Cann NORML will hold its
 LP> seventh annual "Freedom Rally" at Boston Commons on September 21.  The
 LP> event is expected to draw at least 75,000 people.
 LP> "This is not a celebration of marijuana," said attorney and NORML
 LP> board member Richard Evans.  "This rally is about the preservation of
 LP> American freedom."
 LP> Speakers at this years event include Evans, former Boston City
 LP> Council member Mel King, Prison Life Magazine editor Richard Stratton,
 LP> Steve Hager of High Times Magazine, and others.  Musical acts include
 LP> Letters to Cleo, Bim Skala Bim, Sam Black Church, and more.
 LP> Organizers note that the event has grown in popularity over the
 LP> years and estimate that last year's festival was attended by nearly
 LP> 50,000 people.  A Boston radio station that helps to promote the
 LP> marijuana reform rally, WBCN, is anticipating attendance in excess of
 LP> 100,000.
 LP> For more information, please contact Bill Downing of NORML
 LP> Mass/Cann (617) 944-CANN.
 LP> -END-
 LP> MORE THAN 10 MILLION MARIJUANA ARRESTS SINCE 1965 ... ANOTHER EVERY
 LP> 65 SECONDS!
 LP> Reporters and Researchers are welcome at the world's largest
 LP> on-line library of drug policy material at:
One question about this allowing people to grow Mary-Jane for medical
purposes....seems to me that there is already a way for those medical 
atients
who really are prescribed the smoke to get it, legally.  Good old Uncle Sam
grows the stuff for patients in Military and VA hospitals.  And if it is a
prescription for pain and suffering, anyone can get it....and no hassle
once they proove that the prescription is for them, and not stolen or
copied from soneone elses.  
Fact of the matter is, I am one who has been smoking the stuff for years
until about  a year ago.  It just didn't seem to help any after awhile, and
I gotta be honest, the stuff Uncle Sam grows is top notch, class a, grade
A-1 pot!!.  Now I just stay high on pills....the pain in the head gets so
heavy at times my nose, Right eye socket and ears will start to bleed.
Used to be able to chug a quart of Chevas Regal Scotch and go right to sleep,
but with the drugs they got me on now, no drinking unless I want to have my
heart freeze up like an overheated engin in the Indy 500.  So, when it gets
real bad, I get a shot of Sodium Pentathol .05cc right square in the place
the sun don't shine and I am sound asleep afore my head hit the pillow....
Sure beat daylights outta smokin dope that take forever to work....well, ok,
2 or 3 minutes.....
Now, my view on this thing for people being able to grow pot for medical
reasons, sheeeeesh, you know as well as I do that if they get to growin
that stuff, they not gonna just use it for their own use, they gonna make
a little cash on the side, and then it is no longer for medical purposes.
Now, If I were to pass on some of the grass Uncle Sam gives me, I would be
dispensing of a medical prescription without a license...that is federal
felony....not a state slap on the wrist like they do now.
Just wanted to let you have my views on the subject of legalizing pot for
people to grow for their own use........I mean, come on now, you need a
shot of codine for pain, they gonna let you grow your won coke?  I think
not.
Take care, luck be yours and God bless you and yours til next we met!!
James Prior
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