-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date forwarded: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:58:11 -0700 Date sent: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:57:59 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: March 28 column -- marijuana authors Forwarded by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 28, 1999 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Condemning dissident authors to death A well-meaning soul recently asked me, "Vin, why do you have to focus on the loss a few minor rights? This is still the freest nation on earth. Look at your own writings. In what other country would you be allowed to write these things with no fear of repercussions?" I imagine Peter McWilliams may have briefly shared that thought in 1993 when Prelude Press brought out his 800-page opus, "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society." Ditto Steve Kubby when Loompanics of Port Townsend, Washington published his "The Politics of Consciousness" in 1995. Both authors are survivors (so far) of often-fatal diseases, who attribute their survival to the therapeutic use of marijuana. The Associated Press reported on March 20: "Steve Kubby ... has a Feb. 4 letter from Dr. Vincent DeQuattro, a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, stating that Kubby still has a malignancy, for which the marijuana 'in some amazing fashion ... has not only controlled the symptoms ... but in my view has arrested the growth.' " Mr. Kubby attracted further official attention to his anti-Drug-War beliefs when he ran for governor of California on the Libertarian Party ticket last year. Both writers were proved prescient when California voters decided in 1996 to legalize the many medical uses of marijuana by a whopping 70-to-30 margin. And that should have been the end of that. Except that the kind of morally atrophied weasels who run our current War on Drugs have made a big mistake since the recent legalization votes in California, Nevada and Arizona. They have allowed two of the most cynical lies of modern politics -- that the government only enforces the will of the majority, and that if you want the law changed all you have to do is convince a majority to side with you at the polls -- to be revealed as just that: two of the biggest steaming piles of diarrheal mendacity that ever brought tears to the eyes and bile to the throats of a free people. McWilliams was busted and imprisoned last July. Late last year, drug agents stormed the Olympic Valley house of Mr. Kubby and his wife Michele, after weeks of surveilling the married couple through their bedroom window -- dragging them away in chains for growing a few hundred marijuana plants for medical use, two years (start ital)after(end ital) the people of California legalized medical marijuana. Both men had doctors' recommendations. The Fearless Drug Warriors' excuse? They were growing "too many" plants. (I once worked briefly for the publisher of a weekly newspaper who was convinced the photography staff was embezzling film -- he counted no more than 36 photos in each weekly issue, yet the photographer used (start iutal)several (end ital) 36-shot rolls of film each week. In vain we tried to explain to him that a photographer can burn through several rolls trying to get just one usable sports photo. Similarly, the California narco toadies seem to believe that in horticulture, to produce 30 or 40 mature plants it is only necessary to germinate 30 or 40 seeds.) Anyway, I'm sure the arrests and subsequent medical torture (by depriving them of the only medicine doctors say can keep them alive) of these two authors won't have too great a "chilling effect" on the future willingness of others to challenge the government's wisdom, do you think? Author McWilliams wrote to California state Attorney General William Lockyer on March 18: "Since my dual diagnosis (of AIDS and cancer) in March 1996, I have used medical marijuana under the guidance and supervision of three California physicians to fight the nausea caused by the prescription anti-AIDS and anti-cancer medications I must take. "If I cannot keep down my life-saving medications, I will die. Medical marijuana, in my case, had been 99.9 percent effective in alleviating nausea for more than two years. ... Because I cannot keep down my prescription medications without medical marijuana forbidden me by my bail release my viral load has risen dramatically, from undetectable (under 40) to more than 250,000. AIDS doctors become concerned when the viral load tops 10,000. ... (Please see the letter from my AIDS physician, Daniel Bowers, M.D. at http://www.petertrial.com/doc1.jpg.)" Last week, the court ruled that if McWilliams dies before his trial due to the fact he is forbidden marijuana in the meantime, that's just too bad. Steve Kubby and his wife have been bankrupted -- the magazine business they ran out of their home destroyed when arresting drug goons refused to return their computer. Mr. Kubby wrote on March 22: "Our raid, our bankruptcy and the refusal of the prosecutors or judges to return any of our most basic tools and possessions shows how Drug War laws are increasingly used against ordinary citizens. Law authorizing such unconstitutional searches and seizures were intended originally to be used only against 'drug kingpins.' Today these draconian laws are used as standard procedure to destroy the lives of anyone caught with marijuana, even sick and dying people, all to uphold a corrupt and failed federal drug policy." Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at $21.95 plus $3 shipping ($6 UPS; $2 shipping each additional copy) through Mountain Media, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas, Nev. 89127-4422. The 500-page trade paperback may also be ordered via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html, or at 1-800-244-2224. *** Vin Suprynowicz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay, 1872 The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! 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