F O R M E R P R E S I D E N T S
J U S T S A Y N O
T O H O P E & H E A L I N G
by Ian Williams Goddard
Former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George
Bush stood shoulder to shoulder in a joint letter stating
that they ``categorically oppose'' access to cannabis
medical therapies for the ill, which will become legal
in California if Proposition 215 passes and in Arizona
if Proposition 200 passes there. [1]
Even as cannabis has been found to be ``probably the
most potent anti-epileptic known to medicine today [2],''
according to Dr. Van Sim, and even as it has been found
to stop epileptic seizures in children not responding
to legal drug therapies [3], these former presidents
fear that medical access would send the message to
children, true as it may be, that cannabis is safe.
Our compassionate former presidents would rather send
the message to children that allowing epileptic chil-
dren to suffer seizures is safe; that allowing glaucoma
patients to go blind is safe; that throwing sick people
into dungeons is safe; that relocating peaceful portions
of the population into labor camps, dubbed "boot camps,"
is safe; that the proliferation of prisons and police-
state powers to advance a pogrom of prosecution upon
peaceful people is safe. In short, our former presi-
dents wish to send the message to children that
a future of police-state fascism is safe.
Cannabis kills zero people every year, yet over the
last bloody century, police-state fascism, in the
advance of various police-state pogroms designed to
persecute peaceful people, has led to the mass murder
of millions upon millions. Now, here in the U.S., not
only are nonviolent drug users being relocated into
prison labor camps, but even leaders of the Drug War
have called for the systematic extermination of non-
violent drug users. For example, former Los Angeles
Police Chief Daryl Gates, who founded the anti-drug
program D.A.R.E., which is taught in schools across
the nation, stated in September of 1990 that "Casual
drug users ought to be taken out and shot." [4]
Let us turn our back on police-state brutality and
let us instead take a stand for the sick, for medical
freedom of choice, alas for the future of freedom itself.
Let us just say no to police-state fascism and yes to
healing and hope. Hear the cry for freedom and justice:
California: vote YES on Proposition 215.
Arizona: vote YES on Proposition 200.
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[1] "Three Former U.S. Presidents Oppose Medical
Marijuana Measures," Associated Press (10/30/96).
[2] The Great Drug War, Macmillan Publishing, 1987.
[3] FEDERATION PROCEEDINGS, "Antiepileptic Action
of Marijuana-Active Substances," 1949, 8: 284-5.
[4] Not only did Drug War leader Daryl Gates call
for the mass murder of millions, but former Drug
Czar and Drug War leader Bill Bennett is know to
have said that drug users should be beheaded.
For many facts on medical uses of cannabis visit:
http://www.erols.com/igoddard/hemp-med.htm
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