It is a very sad day indeed when one is threatened with arrest because he or she is using medical marijuana. Yet this is happeneing in many states in the Union. The U.S. Supreme Court last year voted five to four against marijuana for medicinal purposes. Now, anyone using it, is threatened with arrest.

This battle should now be fought in Congress and in the court of public opinion. Let that be done.

Please use any and all possible avenues you possess to influence California Governor Schwarzenegger to direct the justice department to allow Steve Kubby the right to self-medicate with cannabis marijuana, while incarcerated for a felony coviction, which is in itself being appealed. Without the ability to self-medicate, it is virtually a certainity that Steven Wynn Kubby will die of the cancer of the adrenalin gland, a malady he has successfully staved off, for over 20 years.

Time is of the essence, the sooner he is incarcerated, the sooner he will be disallowed to self-medicate, the sooner he will become more ill, and the sooner he will die.

Don Faulkner
Box 426
Savona, BC
CANADA
V0K 2J0
250-373-0113

I got an e-mail from the Marijuana Policy Project and Nevada is taking to vote a measure to legalize marijuana for everyone over 21 (like alcohol)...here it is with some links...

You're invited to be among the first to visit the Marijuana Policy Project's new blog for the Nevada ballot initiative campaign at www.RegulateMarijuana.org.

Since learning in March 2005 that our initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Nevada would be appearing on the November 2006 ballot, we've been hiring the campaign team and laying other groundwork to pass this initiative.

At www.RegulateMarijuana.org — the official blog of the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, which is MPP's Nevada campaign committee — you'll read all about how we're working to pass this groundbreaking initiative.

If a majority of voters passes our initiative on November 7, Nevada will become the first state to permit the legal cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana to adults aged 21 and older — and not just for medical use — which would be the biggest victory in the history of the marijuana policy reform movement.

Just a few weeks ago, we opened up our campaign office in Las Vegas. (We didn't even publicize the campaign's kick-off, but the largest newspaper in the state covered it anyway.)

Please consider visiting the debut of the campaign's blog and learn more about what we're doing in Nevada. Visit daily for a regular stream of entertaining, fresh content.

With our campaign office in Las Vegas up and running, we're now up and running, and we won't stop until Election Day on November 7. A win in Nevada will be heard all the way from the steps of the capitol in Carson City to the halls of Congress and beyond.

Please visit the campaign's blog today ... and if you like what we're doing, please consider making a donation to the campaign. We could really use your support!

Thank you,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

I hope someone works on the property taxes in Nevada, as I understand on one hand they can't raise you but a percentage, and on the other hand they re-assess the homes so you end up paying a lot in property taxes anyways. This is a controdiction.

i think that it's a bunch of horse shit that they are taking away the poor guy's marijuana stash. The drugs that those fuckers are gunna give him in jail aren't strong enough. If he doesn't have a regular dosage of the mary jane he's most likely to get an anurysm and probably even die!

While the overwhelming majority of us oppose the war on drugs and support the legalization of both medical marijuana and marijuana itself, I have always wondered what you guys (other libertarians) would say about other drugs. In other words while "light" drugs would be legal, would "hard" ones like cocaine and heroin be legal? Or "very hard" ones like LSD and PCP? I am interested to here what you guys think and if the LP has a position on other drugs, since most other libertarians that have spoken to seem to take it only as far as marijuana.

To be honest, I think the hard drugs should stay illegal. One form of drugs lead to another, However I have my own opinion regarding the MJ. But regardless of my opinion on the medical MJ, if it really does help someone in need where a serious illness is concerned, who am I to say. But please do not, absolutely do not get behind the wheel of a car and drive, nor would I want a person in charge of any political party who has done or is doing drugs. It does destroy parts of your mind that cannot be replaced.
We already have enough crazies in office as it is, let alone adding drugs as well.

Libertarians advocate the decriminalization of all peaceful, voluntary activity. Using hard drugs such as heroin, does not by itself constitute violent behavior. On the other hand, if one were to steal or kill someone under the influence of a drug, that's where the responsibility side of liberty comes into play, and you should receive full application of the law without the excuse that you were "high" to try to weasle out of it.

Freedom and responsibility are the same thing. You cannot have one without the other.

This is the problem, why should a person be allowed to take the drug in the event that a person get killed because he was under the influence of the drug, when if he wasn't on the drug in the first place, another person life would not have been taken in the first place.

That is not a problem, that is life.

Life is not without risk, life is unfair, bad things happen to good people and a half dozen or so other bromides.

I wholeheartedly agree with Craig.

Don't ask how I'd feel if it happened to me, it has. My view stands. The problem with today’s society is that it reacts emotionally, not rationally.

You either wish to live free, consequences included; or as some degree of child, idiot or slave - choose.