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Compassionate Use Benefit - Call 530-272-5333 (A list subscriber publicizes a
public gathering featuring speakers with information about medical marijuana,
plus music and festivities, April 10 in Grass Valley, California. The NORML
Foundation is sponsoring the event.)

From: "ralph sherrow" (ralphkat@hotmail.com)
To: ralphkat@hotmail.com
Subject: COMPASSIONATE USE BENEFIT CALL 530-272-5333
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:06:34 PST

ANNOUNCEMENT! (PASS IT ON)

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NATIVE AMERICAN CONSTITUENT COMMITTEE

* MR. DALE GIERINGER - CALIFORNIA NORML
AUTHOR - MARIJUANA MEDICAL HANDBOOK
WITH DR. TOD MIKURIYA AND MR. ED ROSENTHAL

* MR. JERRY WILSON - COMMON LAW FREEMAN
* OTHER GUEST SPEAKERS TO BE ADDED

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Incarcerated By Illusions? (An op-ed in the Oakland Tribune by Sean
Gonsalves, a former Oakland resident who writes for the Cape Cod Times,
recalls William James' observation that some people who think they are
thinking are really only re-arranging their prejudices. Such "thinking"
colors the popular "debate" on race and the American criminal justice system.
Whenever Gonsalves writes a column about the numerous studies indicating
racism is part and parcel of the criminal "justice" system, some
self-proclaimed "conservative" writes to point out the "obvious" reason there
are a disproportionate number of blacks behind bars: blacks commit more crime
than white people do! It's that kind of thinking that probably led J.S. Mill
to say: "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people,
it is true that all stupid people are conservative.")

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:22:14 -0800
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Pubdate: 14 Mar 1999
Source: Oakland Tribune (CA)
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Author: Sean Gonsalves
Page: 10, Local News

INCARCERATED BY ILLUSIONS?

I think it was the great American philosopher and psychologist William
James who said (and I'm paraphrasing): some people think they are thinking
when really they are only re-arranging their prejudices.

Such "thinking" colors the popular "debate" on race and the American
criminal justice system. Whenever I write a column that highlights the
numerous studies, indicating that anti-black racism is part and parcel of
our criminal "Justice" system, some self-proclaimed "conservative" writes
me to point out the "obvious" reason there are a disproportionate number of
blacks behind bars: blacks commit more crime than white people do! (Is that
so? How enlightening).

It's that kind of thinking - if it even deserves to be called thinking -
that probably led J.S. Mill to. say: "Although it is not true that all
conservatives are stupid people, it is true that all stupid people are
conservative." I think that's a little unfair but the point is well taken.

It's easier to follow the status quo than it is to critically examine the
ideological assumptions that undergird state-sponsored violence and
oppression. Imagine if a white South African, during Apartheid, said the
reason there were so many blacks in prison in their country is because the
custodians of their legal system were simply doing their job: locking up
criminals.

Any outside observer, with even a slight sense of history, would at least
raise a skeptical eyebrow, understanding that there is a high probability
that the numbers are skewed because of a thing called white-skin privilege.

Are we to believe white supremicism has been completely wiped out?

In 1950, whites accounted for 65 percent of all state and federal
prisoners. Nonwhites made up the other 35 percent. Today, nearly 50 percent
of all inmates in American prisons are black, even though African Americans
are only 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Of course people should be protected from violent criminals. What is at
issue, as the distinguished sociologist William Chambliss points out, is
that police flagrantly focus their crime-fighting resources on black
communities, i.e. the "war on drugs." This, in spite of the empirical fact
that whites consume far more drugs than do blacks.

"Police look for crimes in the ghetto, and that's where they find them,"
Charnbliss told Boston Globe reporter Louise Palmer. In other words, we
have millions of white illicit drug users who get "treatment" and
widespread sympathy for their drug problem but it's
three-strikes-you're-out for the blacks who supply white drug users!

When you combine market-morality with the indisputable fact that "the black
underclass" has been effectively locked-out of our "booming economy" - as
study after study has shown - is it any wonder that drug dealing is so
appealing?

Largely because of the mental and moral laziness of our politicians and
policy-makers, a systematic effort at black disempowerment and
disenfranchisement is being carried out. (Continued felons can't vote.)
such ethically and intellectually indefensible policies should be opposed
by all people of good will if we are to have some semblance of civilization.

In their fight to end affirmative action programs, right-wing brothers and
sisters love to quote Dr. King (almost always out of context) - individuals
should be judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character."

Well, here's another quote from Dr. King worth pondering: "There is
nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of
people in that society who feel that they have noththing to lose. People
who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they
don't' have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."

And pundits have the nerve to label my generation stupid and lazy!

-Sean Gonsalves, a former Oakland resident, writes for the Cape Cod Times.

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Prosecutors Turn Their Sights on California's Mexican Mafia (The New York
Times says cops in California are turning their sights once again on la Eme,
known as the Mexican Mafia, one of California's oldest and most powerful
prison gangs, charging its members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act with waging a brutal campaign for control of Southern
California's gangs and drug trade. Those often in harm's way from la Eme are
the group's own members. Federal prosecutors hoped to break the gang's power
by sprinkling members throughout the larger federal prison system. That
somewhat weakened la Eme. But as a result, a truce that was once enforced by
the Mexican Mafia is in tatters, and 24 people have been killed on the
streets of East Los Angeles in the resulting gang war over the last six
months.)

From: "Bob Owen@W.H.E.N." (when@olywa.net)
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March 14, 1999 NYT
Prosecutors Turn Their Sights on California's Mexican Mafia
By CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN

LOS ANGELES -- As guilty verdicts were read, over and over, in the
racketeering prosecution two years ago of the prison gang known as la Eme, a
pattern emerged: one defendant, Victor Murillo, was being acquitted of all
counts against him. His co-defendants cheered, and ultimately he was the
only one of 13 men on trial to be set free.

But last month, Murillo's name surfaced again in court papers, as federal
prosecutors filed two new indictments against 27 suspected members of la Eme
(so named for the Spanish pronunciation of the letter M). This time,
however, Murillo is making his appearance as a murder victim.

The authorities here have turned their sights once again on la Eme, known as
the Mexican Mafia, one of California's oldest and still most powerful prison
gangs, charging its members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act with waging a brutal campaign for control of Southern
California's gangs and drug trade.

In the latest case, the defendants, said to have stepped in to fill the
power vacuum created by the conviction of Murillo's confederates, are
charged in connection with four murders and 13 conspiracies to commit
murder, and face other counts including attempted murder, assault and drug
trafficking. Eleven of the defendants in the new case were in state prison
for previous convictions when the indictments were unsealed.

"As with what we perceive to be significant criminal problems, we will
address them until they are eliminated," said Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S.
attorney in Los Angeles. "Our first prosecutive effort directed toward the
Mexican Mafia had a significant impact upon the organization. It did not,
however, eliminate the criminal conduct."

La Eme was conceived as a "gang of gangs" by inmates from East Los Angeles
at the Deuel Vocational Institution south of Sacramento in the 1950s.

Membership is for life -- "blood in, blood out" the oath goes -- and the
penalty for breaking rules is death. Its membership is almost exclusively
Mexican American, drawn from Southern California gang members who have been
incarcerated.

As the cases make clear, those often in harm's way from la Eme are the
group's own members. Of 12 murders and attempted murders in the previous
prosecution, five were of "carnales," or brothers. One suspected member,
Mariano Martinez, 41, is listed as a defendant in one of the new
indictments, and as the target of a murder plot in the other.

While most details of Murillo's death, and life, have remained closely held
by the task force that has spent most of the decade investigating the
Mexican Mafia, his story illustrates how one's star rises and falls in the
gang.

Murillo, 51 at the time of his trial, was said by investigators to have
joined la Eme in the 1970s during a stay in federal prison for fraud, and to
have done brisk business as a supplier of cocaine and speed.

He was charged with two racketeering conspiracy counts in the 1995 case, for
being present at surreptitiously videotaped Mexican Mafia meetings where
votes were taken on murder contracts and drug distribution.

On April 4, 1998, less than a year after his acquittal the previous May,
Murillo was shot to death in a dirt parking lot outside Visalia, the small
farming town where he lived in California's Central Valley. Speaking on
condition of anonymity, officials have suggested a number of motives for his
death, including his alliance with veteran members of the gang in the face
of a generational rivalry and a refusal to share drug proceeds with younger
members, or possibly retribution for a perception prompted by his acquittal
that he had cooperated with law-enforcement authorities.

Charles Woody, 27, a suspected Mexican Mafia member, is charged with
Murillo's death in the new case. Woody has pleaded not guilty; his lawyer,
William S. Harris, declined to comment on the case.

In the early 1990s, la Eme sought to extend its influence beyond prison
walls to the street, organizing street gangs in large public meetings to
declare a ban on drive-by shootings and requiring gangs to pay "taxes" on
drug profits. The gangs mostly cooperated for fear of retribution by la Eme
and to protect fellow street gang members in prison. State corrections
officials estimate la Eme's ranks at up to 700 members, with thousands more
on the street eager to do its bidding for a chance at membership.

Federal prosecutors first charged members of the gang in 1995, hoping to
break their power by sprinkling them through the larger federal prison
system.

Although the gang's tax collections continue, probation officers, police
officers and one gang member say the prosecution has somewhat weakened la
Eme and forced members to adopt a lower profile. But as a result, they say,
the old shooting truce that was once enforced by the Mexican Mafia is in
tatters, and 24 people have been killed on the streets of East Los Angeles
in the resulting gang war over the last six months.

"The gang members sense that no one's going to enforce violations of the
code," said a probation officer who would only speak on the condition of
anonymity. "Who's going to issue sanctions? So there's a lessening of
control over the street gangs. It's kind of the yin and yang, you get some
good and some bad with it. But if you wait for organized crime to set the
standards for our society, it's pretty sorry indeed."

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U.S. Medical-Marijuana Movement Awaits Key Report (Reuters says the $1.1
million report on medical marijuana from the National Academy of Sciences'
Institute of Medicine, commissioned by the White House drug czar, General
Barry McCaffrey, will be released Wednesday. The U.S. battle over medical
marijuana has been waged on the streets, in the courts and at the ballot box.
This week the fight focuses on science. The report is supposed to assess
claims that marijuana can alleviate suffering associated with everything from
AIDS and cancer to glaucoma and chronic pain. While few believe the report
will offer specific policy recommendations, marijuana-law-reform activists
say that even a suggestion that further research should be conducted would be
powerful new ammunition.)

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:03:21 -0800
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Pubdate: Sun, 14 Mar 1999
Source: Reuters
Copyright: 1999 Reuters Limited.
Author: Andrew Quinn

U.S. MEDICAL-MARIJUANA MOVEMENT AWAITS KEY REPORT

By Andrew Quinn

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. battle over medical marijuana
has been waged on the streets, in the courts and at the ballot box.

This week the fight focuses on science with the release on Wednesday
of a government-ordered report assessing claims that marijuana can
alleviate suffering associated with everything from AIDS and cancer to
glaucoma and chronic pain.

At stake, both sides in the debate say, could well be the future of
marijuana -- hailed by some as a miracle medicine, condemned by others
as a dangerous substance and the first step to hard drugs, addiction
and despair.

The report was commissioned from the National Academy of Sciences'
Institute of Medicine by Clinton administration anti-drug chief Barry
McCaffrey as a review of all the available research on marijuana. He
has said he will carefully weigh the evidence it presents.

Many observers expect that evidence to be positive, and while few
believe the report will offer specific policy recommendations,
pro-marijuana activists say even a suggestion that further research be
conducted would be powerful new ammunition in the struggle to make
marijuana medically available to people who say they need it.

"This gives a scientific basis to the argument," said Bill Zimmerman,
director of Americans for Medical Rights, a group that has coordinated
campaigns to pass medical marijuana initiatives in a number of U.S.
states.

"We're hopeful that the government will change its policy in response
to this report," Zimmerman said.

That hope would have seemed far-fetched just a few years ago. As
recently as last October, McCaffrey himself dismissed
medical-marijuana advocates as undercover operatives working to weaken
America's anti-drug resolve.

"Let's have none of this malarkey on marijuana-smoking by cunning
groups working to legalise drugs," he told a news conference.
"American medicine is the best in the world for pain management."

That position has been echoed by a range of conservative, religious
and family groups, who scoff at the notion that the rolled marijuana
joint should be allowed into America's medicine cabinets.

"Morphine is a pure derivative of heroin, and from the poppy. But no
doctor tells you to go out and smoke opium for pain relief," said
Terry Hensley of the Drug Free America Foundation of St. Petersburg,
Florida.

"This movement ... is using medical marijuana as a red herring or a
Trojan horse to legalise dope because they know they can get it
through on the compassion issue," Hensley said.

But compassion and the concerted efforts of well-organised AIDS
activist groups have carried the day in most of the recent tests of
the medical-marijuana issue.

California and Arizona in 1996 became the first states in the country
to pass voter initiatives legalising certain medical uses of
marijuana, and six other states adopted similar measures in last
November's election.

Efforts to implement the state laws have been messy and ineffectual,
however, stymied in large part by federal anti-narcotics laws, which
ban marijuana as a Schedule I drug: dangerous, addictive and without
medical benefit.

Supporters of medical marijuana say this creates a dangerous situation
for the sick and infirm who believe they benefit from the drug,
forcing them to turn to potentially dangerous street dealers and
leaving them in fear of arrest.

"The tens of thousands of patients who are right now using marijuana
are criminals," said Chuck Thomas of the Marijuana Policy Project, a

Washington-based group that has lobbied to bring the testimony of
medical-marijuana users before the review committee.

"This may be a war, but we have got to remove the sick and wounded
from the battlefield," Thomas said.

Anti-drug groups believe that is easily done, pointing to the fact
that the main active ingredient in marijuana, THC, is available in
synthetic form in the drug Marinol -- a pill that, like any other,
delivers a precise dose of a substance and can be monitored by a doctor.

But many marijuana-using patients say Marinol simply does not work as
well as a few puffs of a marijuana cigarette.

"The fact of smoking a medicine makes it highly unusual, but one has
to focus on the bottom line," said Ethan Nadelmann, director of the
Lindesmith Centre, a New York-based drug policy think tank funded by
financier George Soros, who has backed a number of medical-marijuana
initiatives.

"There is overwhelming evidence, right in front of our eyes, that this
stuff works," Nadelmann said.

Whether that evidence will prove equally convincing to the Institute
of Medicine panel or McCaffrey is an open question. Officials in his
McCaffrey's office said the former general would have no comment on
the matter until after the report was released.

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Study shows link between smoking during pregnancy, adult crime (The
Associated Press says a study published in this month's Archives of General
Psychiatry is the first to examine the relationship between mothers who smoke
tobacco and their children's adult behavior. The researchers - from Emory
University in Atlanta, the University of Southern California and the
Institute of Preventive Medicine in Denmark - found that more than a quarter
of the men whose mothers had the highest levels of smoking and delivery
complications were arrested for a violent crime as an adult. However, David
Fergusson, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the Christchurch School of
Medicine in New Zealand, wrote an accompanying editorial saying there is not
enough research to add prenatal smoking to the list of established risk
factors for adult crimes.)

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:14:25 -0800
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Study shows link between smoking during pregnancy, adult crime

By TAMMY WEBBER
The Associated Press
03/14/99 6:00 PM Eastern

CHICAGO (AP) -- Babies whose mothers smoke during pregnancy could be at a
higher risk of growing up to be criminals, new research suggests.

Researchers say a study published in this month's Archives of General
Psychiatry is the first to examine the relationship between mothers who
smoke and their children's adult behavior.

The researchers -- from Emory University in Atlanta, the University of
Southern California and the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Denmark --
found that more a quarter of the men whose mothers had the highest levels of
smoking and delivery complications were arrested for a violent crime as an
adult.

"Our results support our hypothesis that maternal smoking during pregnancy
is related to increased rates of crime in adult offspring," the authors
wrote, adding that the results "suggest an additional critical reason to
support public health efforts aimed at improving maternal health behaviors
during pregnancy."

However, David Fergusson, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the Christchurch
School of Medicine in New Zealand, said there is not enough research to add
prenatal smoking to the list of established risk factor for adult crimes.

Fergusson, who wrote an editorial accompanying the article, said the study
did not rule out the possibility that genetics -- not smoking -- caused
behavior problems.

"Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are often young women who have previous
misconduct problems and there is quite an inheritability of misconduct
problems," Fergusson said in a telephone interview Sunday.

A spokeswoman for Patricia Brennan, the study's lead author and a researcher
at Emory's Department of Psychology, did not return a page Sunday seeking
comment.

The researchers based their findings on data for 4,169 males born in
Copenhagen between September 1959 and December 1961.

The number of cigarettes their mothers had smoked during the third trimester
of pregnancy affected the men's arrests for nonviolent and violent crimes as
adults, even after factoring out other possible causes such as alcohol use,
divorce, income and home environment, researchers said in the study, which
was released Sunday.

Only one other risk factor -- delivery complications -- was found to be
significant.

While stopping short of saying that babies whose mothers smoked while
pregnant will become criminals, researchers say their findings are
significant.

Further study should be aimed at determining the effects of smoking on the
brain of developing fetuses and to see if specific agents in tobacco smoke
can be more directly linked to antisocial behavior, they said.

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Dealer To The Desperate Faces Court (The Province, in Vancouver, British
Columbia, says AIDS patient Ernest Stanking faces a trial May 3 in a Port
Coquitlam courtroom on a charge of possession for the prupose of trafficking.
For the past 15 years, Stanking has been growing a forest of top-notch pot in
his Port Coquitlam back yard. He sniffs at the hydroponic stuff grown
quickly - and profitably - in basements across the Lower Mainland. "There's
only one way you can grow medical marijuana," he insists. "It's in the
ground, in clean living soil." Stanking supplies about 130 medical marijuana
patients - people who suffer from AIDS or cancer - for $125 an ounce, about
one-third the going rate.)

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:28:22 -0800
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Pubdate: 14 Mar 1999
Source: Vancouver Province (Canada)
Copyright: The Province, Vancouver 1999
Contact: provletters@pacpress.southam.ca
Website: http://www.vancouverprovince.com/
Section: News A4
Author: Peter Clough

DEALER TO THE DESPERATE FACES COURT

Ernest Stanking says he has nothing to hide.

For the past 15 years, he's been growing a forest of top-notch pot in his
Port coquitlam back yard -- a crop, he estimates of something like 110
kilograms a year. He sniffs at the hydroponic stuff grown quickly--and
profitable--in basements across the Lower Mainland.

"There's only one way you can grow medical marijuana," he insists. "It's
in the ground, in clean living soil."

Ernest is an AIDS patient. He says his special brand of organic marijuana
helps to ease the symptoms of his condition.

But that's not all. Ernest, who recently moved to east Vancouver, supplies
about 130 clients--people who suffer from AIDS or cancer.

"If they phone me, I don't care what time of day or night it is," he says.
"I'm on the road and gone. My wife and me have almost split up over that."

So. Good samaritan? Or drug pusher?

That's likely to be a question raised in a Port Coquitlam courtroom May 3
when Ernest stands trial on a charge of possession for the prupose of
trafficking. He was stopped in a roadside check last October while driving
to a client's house.

Ernest says he never drives stoned and, even though his car reeked of pot,
he wasn't expecting a problem. He claims his practice has been well known
to his neighbours, his doctors and to Tri-cities police for at least three
years.

His case is being watched closely by advocates of legalizing marijuana for
medical purposes -- a move that is being considered by federal Health
Minister Allan Rock.

"This is a hard one for the courts because I will not, with what I know
about HIV and medical marijuana and with my religious convictions, stand by
and watch people suffering needlessly," says Ernest. "If they're in pain I
can't just walk away and leave them like that."

He says his grow operation began shortly after he was diagnosed with HIV 16
years ago. "I got it from a needle on my 18th birthday," he says.

Now married with a five-year-old daughter, he says hard drugs have not been
part of his life for a long time. He regards his marijuana use as part of
a holistic approach to treating his illness.

He says his clients, who pay $125 an ounce (about a third of the going
rate) report that the marijuana helps them to relax, deal with pain and
maintain something of an appetite.

"There's no profit margin in what I'm doing," says Ernest. "I am not a
drug dealer." He vows to continue his operation regardless of the court's
verdict. "I will supply anyone who's in medical need," he says. "It isn't
just about HIV or AIDS. This is about medical necessity. Marijuana is not
a weed and it is not dope. It's not a drug. It's a plant that was put on
this earth the same as every other plant -- for us to use."

So. Good samaritan? Or drug pusher? Let me know what you think.

TELL ME YOUR STORY: Call 605-2047. Fax:605-2759. Or e-mail
(pcluff@pacpress.southam.ca).

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