07 June 2005
Valley lawmakers: Support medical marijuana use NOW!
The LPFC joins the national and state Libertarian parties in their stern oppositions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday, giving federal drug enforcement agencies authority to prosecute medical marijuana patients in states that have passed medical marijuana laws, including California. This ruling is judicial activism at its highest by ignoring the Tenth Amendment restriction of the federal government to constitutionally enumerated powers and grossly expanding the Constitution's interstate commerce clause to authorize federal action on patients and vendors who grow or purchase or consume marijuana from the same state.
Equally as despicable is the Bush (and Clinton's before it) administration's zeal in closing down cannabis cooperatives and depriving sick Americans of a proven means of alleviating much of the pain of their illnesses. A regional Drug Enforcement Agency spokeman said that they are not going after sick patients. Tell that to Steve Kubby or the family of Peter McWilliams or Angel Raich, who brought the suit to make this obtuse ruling possible.
The only way to clean up the mess the justices have just created is for Congress to pass a law, such as the Hinchey-Rohrabacher bill, which would de-authorize the federal government from acting against medical marijuana patients in states that have passed medical marijuana laws. The LPFC calls on valley Congressmen George Radanovich, Devin Nunes, Jim Costa, and Dennis Cardoza to support this bill.
We also note that the local lawmakers have not been helpful to medical marijuana patients, either. They've allowed the sheriff, their police chiefs, and their own compassion deficits to advise them to pass minimalist ordinances that make it extremely difficult for patients to be able to find medical marijuana providers without excessive hardship. The LPFC calls on the Fresno County Board of Supervisors and the eleven city councils in the county to pass realistic ordinances that give sick patients a reasonable means of obtaining the medical marijuana they need to ease their discomfort.
Equally as despicable is the Bush (and Clinton's before it) administration's zeal in closing down cannabis cooperatives and depriving sick Americans of a proven means of alleviating much of the pain of their illnesses. A regional Drug Enforcement Agency spokeman said that they are not going after sick patients. Tell that to Steve Kubby or the family of Peter McWilliams or Angel Raich, who brought the suit to make this obtuse ruling possible.
The only way to clean up the mess the justices have just created is for Congress to pass a law, such as the Hinchey-Rohrabacher bill, which would de-authorize the federal government from acting against medical marijuana patients in states that have passed medical marijuana laws. The LPFC calls on valley Congressmen George Radanovich, Devin Nunes, Jim Costa, and Dennis Cardoza to support this bill.
We also note that the local lawmakers have not been helpful to medical marijuana patients, either. They've allowed the sheriff, their police chiefs, and their own compassion deficits to advise them to pass minimalist ordinances that make it extremely difficult for patients to be able to find medical marijuana providers without excessive hardship. The LPFC calls on the Fresno County Board of Supervisors and the eleven city councils in the county to pass realistic ordinances that give sick patients a reasonable means of obtaining the medical marijuana they need to ease their discomfort.
# posted by Rodney Austin @ 1:59 PM 
