NEWSPAPER PRINTED OPINIONS IN RESPONSE TO RAICH PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #310 - Saturday, 11 June 2005 As we predicted in the last FOCUS alert the press did have a field day with the Raich decision. See http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0309.html Below we have selected and provide links to editorials, columns and OPEDs which we believe are from newspapers that accept letters to the editor from writers outside their circulation area. We suggest you write to those nearest you first, and then as many of the rest of them as you wish. Please remember that even if your letter is not printed, it encourages the editorial page editors to give our issues more coverage. US MI: Editorial: No Compassion For People In Pain? URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a04.html US MI: Editorial: Medical Pot Ruling Tramples States' Rights URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a06.html US HI: Editorial: Federal Law Needed For Medical Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a01.html US TX: Editorial: Marijuana Ruling Was About Federal Law, Not Medicine URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a02.html US OR: Editorial: Reclassify Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a07.html US MA: Editorial: Marijuana And Congress URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a03.html US OH: Editorial: Where Is the Compassion URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a04.html US CO: Editorial: High Court Twists Pot Ruling URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a06.html US FL: Editorial: Opening A New Front URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a03.html US WI: Editorial: High Court Muffs Ruling On Medical Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a01.html US WI: Editorial: Let States, Doctors OK Marijuana Use URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n934/a02.html US FL: Editorial: Marijuana Ruling Burns States URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a01.html US: Editorial: High On The Commerce Clause URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a02.html US GA: Editorial: Court Goes To Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a05.html US NY: Editorial: Let The Sick Use Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a07.html US TX: Editorial: Congress Should Make Exception To Drug Laws URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a08.html US OR: Editorial: Oregon's Medical-Marijuana Law Just Got Hazier URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a09.html US CA: Editorial: Court Ruling Allows Persecution By Feds URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a10.html US NC: Editorial: State Law Allowing Medical Use of Pot Is Not Invalid URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a01.html US CT: Editorial: A Medical Setback URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a04.html US MA: Editorial: The Case For Medical Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a06.html US OH: Editorial: The Court On Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a07.html US TX: Editorial: States' Rights Go Up in Smoke, Thanks to U.S. Supreme Court URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a09.html US MO: Editorial: A Stretch Of Court's Reach URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n930/a03.html US: Editorial: The High Court Errs URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n928/a08.html US NC: Editorial The One Drug You Can't Have URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n928/a01.html US IL: Editorial: Marijuana As Medicine URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n927/a14.html US NC: Editorial: Court Ruling Ensures Enforcement URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a05.html US MT: Editorial: Idea of Limited Government Goes to Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a07.html US FL: Editorial: Suffering and States' Rights URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n926/a01.html US AL: Editorial: Myths Up In Smoke In Medi-Marijuana Case URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a05.html US CA: Editorial: Just Where Is The Humanity? URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a06.html US KY: Editorial: Expanding Federal Power URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n923/a02.html US TN: Editorial: Open Up Marijuana Debate URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n922/a07.html US GA: Editorial: Congress Needs To Decide URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n921/a03.html US AZ: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Up In Smoke URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a05.html US NY: Editorial: High Court Flops On Medicinal Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a09.html US RI: Editorial: The Marijuana Ruling URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a10.html US TN: Editorial: States Should Decide Legality Of Medical Marijuana Use URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a02.html US DC: Editorial: Not About Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a01.html US AL: Editorial: Just Say No URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a03.html US NJ: Editorial: Still a Wisp Of Hope URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n918/a07.html US VT: Editorial: A Criminal Prescription URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a05.html US TX: Editorial: U.S. Must Turn to Congress After Ruling URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a04.html US IL: Editorial: Pot and the Constitution URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a03.html US MA: Editorial: Marijuana Not Yet Ready For Medicine Box URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a04.html US CA: Editorial: State Should Push Federal Medical Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a06.html US ME: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Debate Headed Where It Belongs URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n912/a06.html US WI: Editorial: Court Ruling Was Dopey URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n911/a05.html US NY: Editorial: The Court and Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a01.html US TX: Editorial: Let States Decide URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a02.html US MA: Editorial: Some Justices Need To Take A Pill URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n908/a07.html US SC: Editorial: Supreme Court Limits the Right of States to Make Their Own Decisions and Laws URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n903/a03.html US OR: Editorial: High Court Points the Way on Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a05.html US OR: Editorial: Supreme Court Clouds Medical Marijuana Laws URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a07.html US MA: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Not Reefer Madness URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n897/a06.html US MA: Editorial: A Win For U.S. Drug Laws URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a08.html US MO: Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court - Pot and Power URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a10.html US: Editorial: Court's Ruling on Marijuana Reeks of 'Reefer Madness' URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n896/a03.html US IN: Column: You Make The Judicial Call URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a05.html US MI: Column: Getting Tough on the Terminally Ill URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n936/a03.html US MA: Column: Align Drug Laws With Common Sense URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a08.html US UT: Column: States' Rights Get Burned By Medical Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a09.html US FL: Column: Hard To Tell Who's An Activist URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a10.html US FL: Column: How Congress Can Quickly Strike a Blow for Common Sense URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a01.html US GA: Column: Why Put Pot To The Test? URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a03.html US IL: Column: Dazed and Confused About Federal Power URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n933/a10.html US FL: Column: High Court Burned Medical Pot URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a08.html US OK: Column: Ruling Clouds Assumptions URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n925/a01.html US AL: Column: Justices Keep Defying Simple Political Categorization URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n925/a03.html US MA: Column: Justices Aren't Always Predictable URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n924/a03.html US MA: Column: Justices Aren't Always Predictable URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n924/a06.html US FL: Column: In The Grip Of Reefer Madness URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n919/a03.html US DC: Column: Judging This Court URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a04.html US NH: Column: Lifting A Glass, Or A Joint, To States' Rights URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a06.html US MT: Column: Ridiculous Court Ruling URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a07.html US CA: Column: Getting Tough With The Terminally Ill URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a08.html US MS: Column: Just How 'Conservative' Was It to Ban Home-Grown Cannabis URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a03.html US MN: Column: Legal Medical Pot Now Up To Congress URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a01.html US CA: Column: How to Treat Terminally Ill? Let 'em Suffer URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a06.html US IL: Column: Will Congress Have the Guts to Tackle Medical Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a04.html US OK: Column: Setback For Terminally Ill URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n912/a10.html US MS: Column: Let Those Poor Sick Folks Inhale URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n911/a06.html US FL: Column: Getting Tough With The Terminally Ill URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n909/a06.html US WI: OPED: High Court Must Be On Something URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n935/a02.html US CO: OPED: High Court Has Gone Potty URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n932/a02.html US TX: OPED: Reading The Smoke Signals URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n931/a01.html US DC: OPED: 'Medical' Pot Up In Smoke URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n917/a03.html US CA: OPED: Medical Marijuana Needs Remedy URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n916/a01.html US NY: OPED: Smoke Must Have Blinded The Court URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n915/a07.html US NY: OPED: Good To Grow URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n914/a02.html US CA: OPED: Pot Fight Far From Over URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n913/a02.html US WI: OPED: Medical Marijuana: Should It Be Legal? URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n901/a01.html US WI: OPED: Medical Marijuana: Should It Be Legal? URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n900/a10.html Additional targets for your letters are being added to the MAP archives. Check these links for new targets: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Raich http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm We doubt that there are any daily newspapers who have not given some coverage to the Raich decision. Please consider writing to all of your local/state newspapers. You really do not need to tie your letters to a specific article when this issue is as hot as it is! You may find the letter contacts for many of your state newspapers by using the location dropdown at: http://www.mapinc.org/media.htm Finally, have you contacted your member of congress yet? As many of the editorials say, it is congress that needs to act. But it is not the editorials which will decide how the representatives vote this Tuesday. It is the contacts from voters in their district that count the most. That's You! Please see the DrugSense Editorial 'Please Contact Your Representative!' for more details and easy ways to make that contact now: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n929/a05.html Thanks for your effort and support. It's not what others do it's what YOU do Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/ Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal tips on how to write LTEs that get printed. Please also see the suggestions at http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0309.html PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER Please post a copy of your letter or report your action to the sent letter list () if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to if you are not subscribed. Your letter will then be forwarded to the list so others can learn from your efforts. Subscribing to the Sent LTE list () will help you to review other sent LTEs and perhaps come up with new ideas or approaches as well as keeping others aware of your important writing efforts. To subscribe to the Sent LTE mailing list see http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#form Prepared by: Stephen Heath, MAP Media Activism Facilitator =

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