cannabisnews.com: Officials Seek to Send Message on Medicinal Pot Officials Seek to Send Message on Medicinal Pot Posted by CN Staff on September 12, 2002 at 08:02:49 PT Mercury News Staff and Wire Reports Source: San Jose Mercury News At least four Santa Cruz City Council members plan to join medicinal marijuana users at a pot giveaway at City Hall next week. Their goal is to send a message to federal authorities that, in this town, medicinal marijuana is welcome.Council members on Tuesday invited members of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana to pass out medicinal marijuana in a City Hall courtyard. The invitation came less than a week after agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Valerie and Michael Corral and confiscated 167 plants that had been grown to be used as medicine.``It's just absolutely loathsome to me that federal money, energy and staff time would be used to harass people like this,'' said Vice Mayor Emily Reilly, who plans to be on hand at 3 p.m. Tuesday as WAMM members pass out pot.Mayor Christopher Krohn and councilmen Mark Primack and Scott Kennedy said Wednesday they also plan to attend.City Attorney John Barisone said that although the city council did pass a resolution Tuesday denouncing the raid, there is no official city sponsorship of the event, but that council members and medicinal marijuana advocates are acting on their own accord in a public space.The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors also unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday condemning the DEA's action.Complete Title: Santa Cruz Officials Seek to Send Message on Medicinal PotNewshawk: Leon C.Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)Published: September 12, 2002Copyright: 2002 San Jose Mercury NewsContact: letters sjmercury.comWebsite: http://www.sjmercury.com/ Related Articles & Web Sites:WAMMhttp://www.wamm.org/News Articles on WAMM Raidhttp://freedomtoexhale.com/valc.htmCouncil Invites Marijuana Users to Distribute Pot http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14078.shtmlCounty, City Condemn DEA Marijuana Raidhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14077.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #4 posted by Nuevo Mexican on September 12, 2002 at 21:05:16 PT This is just the beginning.... of a new era, where prohibition collapses under its own weight! Just like the World Trade Center, Wall Street, the war pResident, Snarl and all the other Nixon/Hitler worshipers currently responsible for this sinking ship of state. It's paying off FOM, all your dedication and passion, your truly amazing! C-News is the best! Peace!nm [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by kaptinemo on September 12, 2002 at 09:40:31 PT: From little pebbles come huge landslides And a very big landslide is about to rumble down on Freddie the Fed's head very shortly. What will the DEA do? Especially when this starts to spread...as it will. Take every single municipality that follows Santa Cruz's lead to court? Arrest City Councils en masse? I have no idea how many population centers there are in California, but they must number in the thousands. They'd have to build new prisons to house all the Council personnel, as well as the sick and dying. Then medical care...then overtime for the lawyers when the Feds get slapped with class action suits...Freddie the Fed has literally gotten away with this harassment for so long, he thinks it's right and natural to endanger the lives of patients lives by stealing their medicine and arresting them - and in the case of Peter McWilliams and all the AIDS patients that have died since this insanity started a few months ago, murder them. But now it's going to be harder. A lot harder.I wouldn't want to be a DEA agent in California in the very near future. When you are outnumbered millions to one, and your angry neighbors know who you are, what you are, what you've done to helpless people, and where you live, the safest place to reside might turn out to be another State entirely.Hint, hint, hint... [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by TecHnoCult on September 12, 2002 at 09:11:34 PT Not to support an ill fate but... wouldn't it be best for the movement if the feds tried to stop the city leaders or even arrest them? Surely our movement would gain a lot of sympathy and the city leaders and the city's patients would become martyrs.THC [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo MD on September 12, 2002 at 09:03:32 PT: Bravery I applaud these public officials willing to take a principled stand against an unjustifiable federal policy. It is in the finest tradition of civil disobedience. Gandhi and King are smiling. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment