Pubdate: Sat, 14 Sep 2002
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
Copyright: 2002 Santa Cruz Sentinel
Contact:  http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/394
Author: Diane Schwanbeck

MAKE NOISE ABOUT MEDICAL POT

As are many of the Sentinel's readers, I am outraged by the DEA's raid of 
the medical marijuana farm outside Davenport.

Everything about the raid sickened me - the tactics, the weapons, the 
attitude, the timing. I believe the federal agents did this simply because 
they could, and I urge people to make noise, to use their voices, to write 
to their senators and congressmen and urge them to get the slow machine of 
change started to change the federal laws regarding the use of marijuana 
and industrial hemp.

How are we supposed to know what is allowable when we're operating under 
such vastly different sets of laws? The current federal laws regarding 
industrial hemp are just plain illogical, and to get a new law on the books 
regarding medicinal marijuana would take vision and courage. If enough 
people make enough noise, our representatives will not be able to ignore us.

Diane Schwanbeck

Ben Lomond
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