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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Medical Marijuana Approved in Sonoma County
- Message-ID: <1993Dec23.000704.17812@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 00:07:04 GMT
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- ** Topic: PP 11/93 Medical Marijuana **
- ** Written 3:24 pm Dec 17, 1993 by sonomapj in cdp:gen.newsletter **
- From: "Sonoma Co. Center for Peace/Justice" <sonomapj>
- Subject: PP 11/93 Medical Marijuana
-
- Title: Miracle On Administration Drive
-
- By: Lazar Yersersky
-
- On Tuesday, October l2, before a standing-room-only crowd at the County
- Supervisors' hearing, Sonoma County at last passed a resolution
- approving the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Presented by Ernie
- Carpenter, supervisors Tim Smith and Mike Cale voted for. Nick Esposti
- was the sole vote against. The resolution, written mainly by Carol
- Miller, who, in spite of bringing up a gang of kids with Michael,
- living on a remote mountain without a car for at least a year, not to
- mention fighting Lymes disease all the while, never flagged in her
- mission of freeing marijuana for medical use.
-
- Dr Tod Mikuriya, author of the authoritative "Medical Marijuana
- Papers," spoke first. Caregiver "Brownie" Mary Rathburn testified to a
- standing ovation for her work and her indomitable spirit. Dennis Peron,
- who ram- rodded the SF ballot victory, spoke, and Bruce Sloan gave them
- what-for as only he can do, with his testimony before the supervisors
- and with his nifty sign to "Repeal Hemp Prohibition and Restore Health"
- outside.
-
- Then the parade of patients began: Patti, Beth, and Barb with AIDS. I
- use first names only because these very ill people are criminals as
- things stand--or at least stood before today. Patti drove herself to
- the hearing even though she was almost too sick to talk. Beth, a cancer
- patient, spoke. Chuck, an asthmatic, literally given the breath of life
- by a few daily tokes of marijuana, was there. And a phys ed teacher
- half crippled with a back injury suffered when a drunk ran into his
- car, explained that only marijuana stopped his debilitating muscle
- spasms, allowing him to stretch and heal his back when synthetic
- pharmaceuticals, with their often toxic side effects, could not. Sara
- was there suffering from giardia that wasted her away until marijuana
- cured the awful nausea and allowed her to eat. Linette, who was busted
- for two plants in Fairfax, was there.
-
- Now we must unite in support of Sen. Henry Mello's Medical Legalization
- Bill on the state level. And federal bills S. 784 and H.R. l709, which
- will roll back restrictive regulations on nutritional products and
- medical herbs (including cannabis) need our support. We must now
- endeavor to get the ear of Bill Clinton or maybe Hillary.
-
- Congratulations to S.C.R.A.P. and to everyone who worked so hard and so
- long to get to this point.
-
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