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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Bow down before the one you serve...you're going to get what you deserve.
Speaking of being on the prowl (see below)....John Ashcroft is hunting evil down everywhere, so beware terrorists, fellow travelers, women with brain tumors or paralysis....Yeah, that's right, you sickos. Hands on the car and spread 'em. Big Bad John is back in town and he don't cotton to no debilitated, states-rights spouting dopers:
A federal judge has refused to prohibit the U.S. government from potentially prosecuting two women with painful ailments whose doctors say marijuana is their only medical solace. In the first case of its kind, the two California medical marijuana users sued Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking a court order allowing them to smoke, grow or obtain marijuana without threat or fear of federal prosecution.
U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins expressed sympathy for the women but said federal law required him to rule against them.
"Despite the gravity of plaintiffs' need for medical cannabis, and despite the concrete interest of California to provide it for individuals like them, the court is constrained from granting their request," Jenkins wrote in a ruling last week that became public Monday.
The Justice Department would not comment on whether it would seek to prosecute plaintiffs Angel Raich, 37, or Diane Monson, 44.
The case underscores the conflict between California's medical marijuana law, which allows people to grow, smoke or obtain marijuana for medical needs, and the federal government's refusal to acknowledge the state's 1996 voter-approved initiative allowing such acts.
Monson grows and smokes her own marijuana for chronic back problems and has already been raided once by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Raich suffers from a variety of ailments, including scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea, fatigue and pain. Raich and her doctor say marijuana is the only drug that helps her pain and keeps her eating. She says she was partially paralyzed on the right side of her body until she started smoking marijuana.
Both women say they will continue smoking marijuana. Raich vowed to take her case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and possibly to the Supreme Court.
"I am not a criminal. I am just somebody who is really, really ill and sick," she said. "I'm not going to stop. I'm not willing to die."
How dare she refuse God when he is obviously calling her home?
First US Attorney to find a 12 year old girl going blind from glaucoma with a joint in her pocket gets a big fat bonus from Ashcroft for giving him his first erection since 1993.
Suffer the children....
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