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Santa Cruz Drug Raid
Posted by CN Staff on September 28, 2002 at 10:08:05 PT
Letter to Editor - Asa Hutchinson
Source: New York Times 
To the Editor:Christopher Krohn, the mayor of Santa Cruz, Calif., asks how he ended up in a tug of war with the Drug Enforcement Administration over his support for medical marijuana (Op-Ed, Sept. 21). But his tug of war is not with the D.E.A. but with the scientific community. Neither the scientific community nor the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that smoking marijuana is medicine. 
The D.E.A. supports the study of marijuana for safe medicinal purposes. It was because of studies approved by the agency that the drug Marinol was developed. Marinol is medical marijuana. It is an F.D.A.-approved prescription drug based on the active ingredient of marijuana, THC. The D.E.A. has authorized further studies of smoked marijuana as medicine. But until science concludes that smoking marijuana has a true medical value, the agency is mandated by law to stop trafficking of this drug.  ASA HUTCHINSONDirectorDrug Enforcement AdministrationWashington, Sept. 24, 2002Newshawk: IOMSource: New York Times (NY)Author: Asa HutchinsonPublished: September 28, 2002Copyright: 2002 The New York Times Company Contact: letters nytimes.com Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Related Article & Web Sites:WAMMhttp://www.wamm.org/Pictures From WAMM Protesthttp://freedomtoexhale.com/eventpics.htmWhy I'm Fighting Federal Drug Laws From City Hallhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14195.shtml 
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Comment #23 posted by eco-man on September 29, 2002 at 09:11:45 PT
Santa Cruz cannabis. 100's of world media articles
Just click the link below. It is updated as articles are added to the MAP-DrugNews archive:
http://www.mapinc.org/find?BK=cruzThank you Santa Cruz, California, for standing up! This is the only shortcut link I know of in the world that will pull up as many media articles about Santa Cruz cannabis, the DEA raid, the rally, the medical cannabis giveaway at City Hall, etc.. More such shortcuts can be created by following the formula, or using the specially-adapted search forms (that show similar shortcut URLs) found here: 
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Comment #22 posted by eco-man on September 29, 2002 at 07:21:11 PT
Answer Asa Hutchison in the streets, too. 
The only reason Asa feels the need to respond is because of the massive media coverage of Santa Cruz, San Diego, Sacramento, etc. in-your-face rallies with civil disobedience, arrests, and medical cannabis giveaways. That went around the world many times over. It is also why the corporate newspapers will feel obliged to allow more LTEs in. *Many PHOTOS, VIDEOS, articles. State Capitol building rally, and Federal Courthouse rally and civil disobedience. Sept. 23 2002. Sacramento medical cannabis rallies, 29 arrests, civil disobedience. Sacramento is the capital of California. 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/sacramento.htm and 
http://corporatism.tripod.com/sacramento.htm and 
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/sacramento.htm 
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Comment #21 posted by gloovins on September 29, 2002 at 00:10:26 PT
OR...
D.A.R.E. can be Drugs Are Really Expensive...
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Comment #20 posted by Jeaneous on September 28, 2002 at 20:43:13 PT:
NP canaman
I too hope it's printed... but it's kinda long. I did have one in the Sac Bee last month. I am finding that if you are consistant with your writings and don't spam and all that stuff that you do get writers that will respond to you and editors that consider your opinion valid and will print you more often.just gotta keep banging the door, ringing the phone, writing letters until they change. We aren't going to.
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Comment #19 posted by canaman on September 28, 2002 at 20:29:53 PT
jeaneous
sorry for the previous spelling.
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Comment #18 posted by canaman on September 28, 2002 at 20:25:13 PT
jeanous
Your LTE is excellent! I expect it to be one of many rebuttals to be printed. (hopefully printed)
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Comment #17 posted by Jeaneous on September 28, 2002 at 19:39:25 PT:
My return letter....
I am writing regarding ASA's letter to the editor. His information is false. Based upon the Institute of Medicine's report on marijuana as medicine, they conclude that until a faster acting more effective means of administering, that people in immediate need for relief be allowed to smoke marijuana under a doctors care.If Mr. Hutchinson would read that report and then start to ask questions of Doctors and reports he would find more than enough evidence that marijuana has been equated to pain relief of a codeine. If so, why is it not considered a medicine? You say we are sending the wrong signals to our children that marijuana is harmless. That too is a lie. We are saying it is a drug just like codeine, or vicodin in that it helps relieve pain and stiffness, nausea and wasting syndrom. Telling children a drug is a drug is truth. We don't want children smoking marijuana. We want to keep it in adult hands and in Doctors hands, not in the government's hand.It is no hoax. It is no lie. Marijuana helps patients have a little better quality of life even if the Federal Government thinks it's wrong. We patients will continue speaking out until they understand and make moves to prove that they will listen to the will of the people of this land instead of forcing their will upon us.Stop arresting sick citizens.Jean Cowsert
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Comment #16 posted by Dave in Florida on September 28, 2002 at 14:06:22 PT
They don't get it..
 The D.E.A. supports the study of marijuana for safe medicinal purposes. It was because of studies approved by the agency that the drug Marinol was developed. Marinol is medical marijuana. It is an F.D.A.-approved prescription
drug based on the active ingredient of marijuana, THC. Asa, If Marinol is marijauna, then why can't I save money and grow my own? I would prefer to take my chances on natural substances, rather than use synthectic. Do you own stock in drug companys? 
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on September 28, 2002 at 13:08:28 PT
Patrick & canaman
canaman thank you for the link. There are herbs in that list that can be toxic but Cannabis hasn't killed anyone.
 Patrick, just the way they aren't covering the protests in Washington shows me a lot about how things really are. Scary days indeed.
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Comment #14 posted by Prime on September 28, 2002 at 12:44:56 PT
Let Doctors decide...
Asa,Let my doctor and I decide which medicine I should use and which I should not.This is non of the governments business.Butt out Assa.
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Comment #13 posted by Patrick on September 28, 2002 at 12:30:21 PT
Ddc & FoM
Hey thanks for the interesting gif's. It is so true that greed and power has distorted the real dream that was once called America. I especially like the one with all the people doing the heil hitler crap. Reminded me of what congress must have looked like when they passed the "Patriot" act without even bothering to read it.Yes FoM it is a very scary time indeed. The Turks stopped another shipment of smuggled weapons grade uranium. And I don't know about you but I think terrorism seems to be about one up manship. I can't help but think the next statement from some non-cannabis smoking terrorist will be radiological in nature no matter who Bush bombs.
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Comment #12 posted by canaman on September 28, 2002 at 12:27:32 PT
Fom, regarding herbs and law...
FDA is limited to removing herbs that are proven unsafe.Check out the first few paragraphs at this link for more info.http://www.medical-library.net/specialties/framer.html?/specialties/_herbal_medicine.html
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Comment #11 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on September 28, 2002 at 12:26:30 PT
Lil' LTE
Sirs,  Asa Hutchinson can say "marijuana is not medicine" as often as he wants, with a taxpayer-funded media blitz to back him up. However, nothing he has ever said could hope to justify raiding hospice centers where sick and dying people believe otherwise.
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Comment #10 posted by canaman on September 28, 2002 at 12:08:34 PT
Just and unjust laws
Cannabis is herbal medicine. We all know that and doctors used to know it a few generations back. Prohibitionists, if they ever knew it would never admit it. Henry Anslinger took this most valuable of plants (cannabis) started calling it marijuana (slang) scared the hell out of Congress and fear and confusion have reigned ever since. I believe when prop.215 was to be put on the ballot at first the people that drafted it wanted it called Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act. But they where told using the word cannabis would confuse the voters and not allowed to use that wording. That's how screwed up things have become. We now are forced to call a medicinal plant by it's slang name and not it's scientific one!
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on September 28, 2002 at 12:03:01 PT
Patrick
Thanks! That picture of the american flag is a sad picture to see. It also is scary.
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Comment #8 posted by DdC on September 28, 2002 at 11:57:39 PT
Patrick, Some of us proud patriots feel the same! 
Village Idiot 
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36294.gifSkull & Bones
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36400.gifNazism or WoD
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36285.gifAmerican Fascist 2001
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/33/33290.gifToo Much Snow
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D.E.A.th Deceptions
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Comment #7 posted by Patrick on September 28, 2002 at 11:42:56 PT
FoM
From my limited perspective the answer to your question of what laws rule? 1) LAWS of Nature 2)Law of might makes right 3)He who has the "gold" makes the rules. The protest occuring in England today makes a fine statement as to how people view the U.S. Take a look at the photo of the american flag in the picture at the following link...http://www.msnbc.com/news/814298.asp
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on September 28, 2002 at 11:23:22 PT
Question
The news is very slow. It's the calm before the storm I believe. I've had time today to think about medical marijuana, states rights and natural herbal remedies and where the laws could maybe be a benefit to us. We know Cannabis is a herbal medicine. There is Federal law against Cannabis but where are the laws concerning medicinal plants as far as being state or federal? I know this doesn't make that much sense but what laws are the ones that rule? 
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Comment #5 posted by canaman on September 28, 2002 at 11:15:30 PT
Oh Asa, you're such a sweetheart!
Too bad you're a big fat compulsive liar !
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Comment #4 posted by DdC on September 28, 2002 at 11:07:18 PT
Doubletalk Has Never Been Quite So Obvious!
Jefferson vs xCzarbarry
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/27/27340.gifAsa and Me
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9898.shtmlThe conversion of Asa
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/12/hutchinson/index.htmlMena Arkansas
http://www.thecommonman/cocaine1.htm
http://etherzone.com/reich3.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a392f3206767e.htm
http://speech.csun.edu/ben/news/cia/
http://www.otherside.net/deaths.htmAsa Isa Assa 
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionprohibitionistwodjunkies.showMessage?topicID=31.topicBlack Panthers Solution or Problem
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/34/34017.jpgCan't Find It?
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36609.gifJudge Harlan Stone says it is our duty to NOT obey bad law.
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/27/27185.gifAssassins of Youth, Who Finances the Child Mind Molesters?
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/36/36796.gifHow FIJA Saved My Life!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4055.shtmlFDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked Assa!
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http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/29/29534.gifShalalagans sat on the IOM report and Now Thompsons' HHS is hiding it...Asa is a Liar!
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/28/28670.gifThe Whooton report stating cannabis is safe, besides the patients receiving rolled joints or thousands of years of documented medical use
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=26.topicCannabis is Medicine! Get Over It!
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No Medical Value!!!
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Comment #3 posted by Patrick on September 28, 2002 at 11:06:40 PT
Say What????????
"The D.E.A. supports the study of marijuana for safe medicinal purposes."Since when? Is this some kinda reverse/perverse psychology propoganda BS? I guess marijuana has medical value afterall! Quick someone tell the Supreme Idiots. I mean its medicinal value only exists as long as the marijuana is in the FAKE manufactured for a-drug-company-profit form. Screw the DEA and grow 100% REAL marijuana and stop supporting government terrorists. For every Marinol pill that you buy you finance another politician who will destroy more of your rights. You know the story... This is the Marinol Pill that Dan bought, this is the pharmacy that sold Dan the pill....ad nasuem until you get to the military that drops Daisy Cutters on little childrens heads in foreign lands...
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Comment #2 posted by afterburner on September 28, 2002 at 11:02:27 PT:
Active ingredients
Looking for the active medical ingredient in nature's plants is analogous to refining out only the wheat starch for flour and leaving out the wheat germ and the wheat bran. We are finally starting to realize that this processing which greatly increases shelf life of white bread has deleterious effects on our health. The quest for a single "scientific" active ingredient in medical marijuana is outdated pseudo-scientific folly. "The whole grain has three parts: fiber- and nutrient-rich bran, nutrient-rich germ and starchy endosperm. A refined grain has only the endosperm, with the bran and the germ processed out, although some of the vitamins that are removed get added back in." —ABCNEWS.com 
Where’s the Wheat?
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Comment #1 posted by pokesmotter on September 28, 2002 at 10:28:05 PT:
this guy is hilarious
"Neither the scientific community nor the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that smoking marijuana is medicine." Yeah we know, we know. I guess the "scientific community" includes any studies that support is point of view. Unrelated: bumper sticker idea: DARE:Dare Ain't Really Effective. 
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