Cops Confiscation Maliciously Punished Amputee, The Drug War Promotes Terrorism Options

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Amputee Sues Over Confiscated Scooter
CN Source: Associated Press March 24, 2005
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20403.shtml



Portland, Ore. -- Vicki Marie Tyler, a diabetic amputee with a medical marijuana card, says she was asleep on her couch when 13 police officers raided her North Portland home looking for drugs. Though officers found less than an ounce of marijuana during the 2003 raid, they seized her electric scooter on the grounds in was bought with drug money. A jury last year acquitted Tyler of drug-dealing charges.

Now Tyler is trying to make it 2-for-2 in the courts, filing a federal lawsuit against the Portland Police Bureau because it kept her scooter for more than three months — until a Multnomah County judge ordered the bureau to give it back.

The police seized her scooter, among other pieces of property, even though the warrant did not list any property eligible for seizure, said David D. Park, Tyler’s attorney.

The police can seize property thought to be bought with drug profits, such as guns and expensive stereo equipment. But Park said the police had no reason to believe that Tyler, an arthritic diabetic with kidney failure who uses a prosthetic leg, used drug profits to buy a scooter that requires a prescription from a physician.

The suit seeks $15,000 for emotional pain and suffering. The suit also seeks punitive damages, claiming the police either maliciously sought to punish her or recklessly deprived her of her right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

The Portland city attorney’s office had not received a copy of the suit Wednesday. A Portland police spokesman declined to comment to The Oregonian.

The lawsuit names 13 Portland police officers, including former Officer Jason H. Sery, who shot and killed an unarmed motorist named James Jahar Perez last year. Sery was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury.

Complete Article: http://tinyurl.com/45xyd

CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml

Electric Motor Scooter Articles Mar 25 2005
* Corvallis Gazette-Times: Amputee sues over confiscated scooter
* kgw.com: Amputee sues Portland police over confiscated scooter
* Statesman Journal: Confiscated scooter brings lawsuit by amputee
* The Oregonian: Amputee sues police for taking scooter in raid
* Katu.com: Amputee suing Portland police over confiscated scooter
http://www.speedysat.com/electric_scooters_news.html

Think of the message being sent to the kids?
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79668.shtml

Why are we Lying to our Children?
http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Stoners/WhyLying.html



The Kubby Family by Pete Brady (04 Sept, 2000)
http://www.kubby.org

(Excerpts) Steve Kubby, a cancer survivor and author of an award-winning book called "The Politics of Consciousness," had just finished a 1998 campaign for governor when 21 police officers burst into his California mountain home in January, 1999. After being mistreated in jail, Kubby and his wife found their home ransacked, their reputation trashed, their money and magazine business ruined by police.

At Kubby's urging, a Sacramento newspaper did a six month investigation of Placer County's anti-pot police unit, and found that officers conducted illegal searches in a number of cases, some of which were later thrown out due to police misconduct.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1682

Medical marijuana advocates Michele and Steve Kubby are anticipating a ruling "any day now" on their historic bid to become Canada's first officially-sanctioned reefer refugees.

The Kubbys fled to Canada from California three years ago, after Steve was found guilty of minor drug law violations and was told that he would not be able to use life-saving medical marijuana after his conviction.

Steve Kubby suffers from a rare form of cancer, and has long argued that marijuana is the only reason that the cancer has not killed him. A recent article in the prestigious journal "Nature" agreed with Kubby, stating that marijuana killed cancer tumors by cutting off their blood supply.
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4593.shtml



Medical Marijuana User Claims Persecution in US

The U.S. federal government says medical marijuana use is a hoax and anyone who uses it should go to jail for a long time, he said.

Cancer specialists say Kubby's pot intake reduces his risk of a heart attack by controlling blood pressure spikes, rapid heart beats, headaches and chest pains caused by the over production of adrenaline.

Kubby told the hearing his greatest fear is having his two daughters taken away, a tactic he says U.S. prosecutors use against medical marijuana users.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15907.shtml

Letter to Health Canada about RCMP illegally seizing and destroying
Steve's medical marihuana - despite exemption
http://www.kubby.com/rcmp.seized.medicine.html

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Philipino's and Entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed August 2 1937; effective Oct.1, 1937)

Andrew Looney: Activist
http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Activist.html

Psychosis, Hype And Baloney
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79370.shtml

Police Launch Petition Drive Against Pot Law
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79497.shtml

UN Condemns UK Cannabis Laws
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x79499.shtml



Jonathan Magbie
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4940.shtml

Judge and Executioner
Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic Washington, DC man, died in jail. Though he was found guilty of possessing a single joint, his real crimes - in the judge's eyes - were in saying that marijuana made him feel better and that he would continue to smoke it for that very reason. continued...
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=184&l=61979

A Judicial Crime - the killing of Jonathan Magbie
http://www.keithblevins.com/writings/A%20J...al%20Crime.html

2004-10-07: Judge Retchin Is A Murderer
http://www.bcmarijuanaparty.ca/main/judge....r.html#continue



A Son's Death, a Mother's Unanswered Questions
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19651.shtml

Another Unnecessary Death in D.C.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19617.shtml

Disabled Man Dies In D.C. Jail
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19604.shtml

Brownie Mary bakes no more by Pete Brady (01 Jul, 1999)
Beloved San Fran icon dies after years of distributing medical brownies and love.

It was hard keeping up with the elderly woman
whom San Francisco marijuana activists called Brownie Mary Rathbun.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1468.html



Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/jun01/pot27062601a.asp

Grandmother has cannabis by No 10
http://www.drbongs.com/news/archives/00000406.html
Patricia Tabram @ 03/05/2005 02:20 PM GMT
Dr Bong, thanks for all your support. I'm in the process of having a website designed, grandma-eats-cannabis.co When its done, I'll be looking to get some more support through people like yourself and everyone who is hurting because of the wrongheadedness of the government's laws.
Grandma
mailto:pat@tabram15.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.grandma-eats-cannabis.co.uk

Older Americans Overwhelmingly Support Legalizing
http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77085

Drug War Zealots Pressure AARP To Kill MMJ Story
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/20/thread20292.shtml

Angel's Fight to Stay Alive
http://www.angeljustice.org



Angel Raich v. Ashcroft
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/raich.htm

Angel Raich v. Ashcroft News
http://freedomtoexhale.com/raich.htm



I Really Consider Cannabis My Miracle
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20078.shtml

High Expectations - San Francisco Bay Guardian
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20069.shtml

Cannabis and The Constitution
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20027.shtml



WAMM
http://www.wamm.org

WAMM Raided on September 5, 2002
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/valc.htm

Pictures From WAMM Protest
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/eventpics.htm

Declaration of Arnold Leff, M.D.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P27D320CA

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Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14054.shtml
Maybe John Walters, unbeknown to us, has medical expertise beyond that of the world's leading physicians and researchers. Or maybe he's lying in a desperate attempt to save a collapsing policy.

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/news.jsp
http://www.legalisieren.at/studien/artikel/who_report.htm



D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P4FF12B28

Police officials lied to toughen laws...
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/msg1x79321.shtml

Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2B721E75

D.E.A.th Deceptions
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html

PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T530131B6

The FBI and Me -- An American Story
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0704-02.htm

The Murder of Peter McWilliams
http://tinyurl.com/2lmo2


http://www.theadvocates.org

Peter McWilliams: 1950 – 2000
"As a result, his AIDS viral load, which had been "undetectable," soared to dangerous levels. Peter was also very fragile psychologically. Aggravated by his health and legal problems, he often suffered from debilitating bouts of depression. Certainly, he was badly damaged by being in federal detention, and he knew from that experience that he could not survive very long if he were sent to prison.

Peter McWilliam's Memorial Page
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/Peterm.htm

US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3390.shtml

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams
http://www.mcwilliams.com
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint

Rainbow Farm Massacre
http://www.mapinc.org/find?200


Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001

On Labor Day weekend 2001, "Tom and Rollie were executed by the forces of so-called law and order" at the campground near Vandalia. "They were not killed to protect the public safety, to punish them for smoking cannabis or because of the plants in their basement," according to the Michigan Cannabis Action Network announcement of the vigil.

"Our friends worked boldly and passionately to change destructive, unjust laws and to inspire same; and in the end they rejected the authority of a court that had amply shown its bias. They refused to hide. They refused to run. They refused to bow down. And for that, the Police State ground them up in its gears."

Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/26/page1.html



James Geddes: 90 years for 5 medicinal plants...
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html

Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O35755DD6

Tribute to cannabis campaigner Biz Ivol
BIZ Ivol, the multiple sclerosis patient who campaigned for the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes, has been nominated for a posthumous award for her work in helping fellow MS sufferers. Ivol died at her home in Orkney last year. http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=220&id=221772005

R.I.P. BIZ IVOL - CANNA-CHOCOLATE FOR MS
(Excerpted) Biz was the lady who first made Cannabis Chocolate for fellow MS patients, like Colin Davies, another UK man who was punished for supplying cannabis to seriously ill people who approached him for help, began to post out chocolate to fellow MS sufferers around the country.[/b]

Like Colin, Biz was approached by the press and told her story honestly.

Colin Davies
http://www.ccguide.org.uk/colindaviesstory.php

The result: raids by the so-called Drugs Squad, search and arrest, then to be made to suffer unbearable stress whilst waiting almost 2 years for her trial which began in June 2003.
http://www.ccguide.org.uk/bizivol.php

MS Cannabis Campaigner Raided: BBC On-Line, 17 August 2001
http://www.lca-uk.org/newsite/displayitem.php?articleid=388


http://www.lifestyle.scotsman.com/pic/1707bizb.jpg

The Much Needed Cannabis Discussion (Excerpted)
‘In practical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume…. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.’- FL Young (1988)DEA Administrative Law Judge.

The government and its strictures and legislation on cannabis are resulting in many suffering from illnesses to be deemed as criminals. Orkney Islander Biz Ivol experienced this when his home was raided and his cannabis plants were confiscated. continued... http://lark.phoblacht.net/aine.html

Medical Cannabis Advocates Face Up to 40 Years
Lynn and Judy Osburn are charged in federal court with cultivating medical marijuana in accordance with California state law, HS 11362.5 and in agreement with the city of West Hollywood and the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center.
http://www.hr95.org/osburns.htm

Osburn Defense Fund
http://www.osburndefensefund.com
http://www.hr95.org/pix/osburns.jpg


Lynn and Judy Osburn

Biomass Resources for Energy and Industry
by Lynn and Judy Osburn © 1993
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/biomass.html

HEMP SEED:
THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html

Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force by Lynn Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html

Energy Farming In America by Lynn Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html

Hemp Plywood Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn
North Coast XPress, Feb./Mar 1994
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/plywood.html

Auction Action by Judy Osburn
"Police seized vehicles" exclaimed the advertisements for the Labor Day weekend auction. Four FEAR activists arrived at United Public Auctions in Upland, California early Saturday morning in time for the 7 a.m. auction preview. We intended to alert bidders that their own car could easily be forfeited under the unfair laws by which the vehicles up for auction were seized.
http://www.fear.org/auction.html


http://www.fear.org/image/auction.gif

America's New POWs
Faces from the Human Rights and the Drug War exhibit
A project of Human Rights 95 (HR95)
POW Photo Gallery: Click names or thumbnails for information
on any of these highlight cases. http://www.hr95.org/hr95faces.html

About 60% of federal prisoners are drug offenders.
Just 3% are violent offenders.
Whereas violent offenders serve an average of 54% of their prison term,
drug offenders are legally required to serve at least 85% of their prison term.
Source: US Justice Department Bureau of Prison Statistics

Todd McCormick 5 - 10 years for treating neck cancer.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I288152E6

Bryan Epis Sentenced to Ten Years
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F3531A7
http://www.csdp.org/news/news/medmar.htm
http://freedomtoexhale.com/protestpics.htm



Shattered Lives
http://www.hr95.org/Shattered.htm

America's Private Gulags
http://tinyurl.com/4crur

The Real Price of Prisons
http://www.motherjones.com/prisons

It Was Not the Drug, but the Criminalisation
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12377.shtml

"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
http://www.working-minds.com/ARquotes.htm

Americans Funding Fascist'
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/msg1x79188.shtml

Spoils of Drug War Forfeitures Prove Too Lucrative
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12369.shtml

Seizures By Police Help Fund Drug War
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10223.shtml

Bonus Payment To Informant Draws Criticism
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9855.shtml

Anti-Crime Eviction Law Considered
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10225.shtml

Government Property Seizures out of Control
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y19612DA6
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/message.shtml?1x37458

Policing For Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda
http://www.fear.org/chicago.html

CannabisNews Articles - Forfeiture
http://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=forfeiture

L.A. Forfeiture Squads Kill California Millionaire
http://www.fear.org/scott15.html



War Against Marijuana is Crackpot
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12508.shtml

Addicted to the Drug War
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=853

DEA Raids MMJ Garden of Sister Somayah
http://tinyurl.com/2ke5e

RENEE BOJE
http://www.reneeboje.com
News items about Renee
http://www.mapinc.org/renee.htm

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We Must End the Unwinnable War on Drugs
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread1126

The Drug War - Back To The Stone Age
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11208.shtml

Criminal Possession Law is Reefer Madness
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11272.shtml4.shtml

November
http://www.november.org

F.E.A.R.
Forfeiture Endangers Americans Rights
http://www.fear.org

FAMM
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
http://www.famm.org/

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience . . . Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring"
Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950

Global Ganja Gathering MMM
This year's march: May 7, 2005 - May Day Weekend
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/nymap2005.pdf

Visit the MMM Home Page
http://www.cures-not-wars.org
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/gmm2005.jpg



Drug Reform Coordination Network
http://drcnet.org

Cops Against The Drug War
http://drcnet.org/cops

N.O.R.M.L.
http://norml.org

When Smoke Gets In My I By Chris Bennet
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/...ke_in_my_i.html
The First Cultivated Crop
Professor Richard E. Schultes, the director of the Botanical Museum at Harvard University and a prominent researcher in the field of psychoactive plants, wrote an article titled Man and Marijuana in which he states: ...early man experimented with all plant materials that he could chew and could not have avoided discovering the properties of cannabis (marijuana), for in his quest for seeds and oil, he certainly ate the sticky tops of the plant.

Human Rights and the WoD
http://www.hr95.org

Drug Sense
http://www.drugsense.org

Change the Climate
http://www.changetheclimate.org

Cannabis News
http://www.cannabisnews.com

MAP Inc.Org.
http://www.mapinc.org

A.C.L.U. War on Drugs
http://tinyurl.com/5c8n7

Search: Forfeiture
http://search.aclu.org/AdvancedSearchResults.cfm

Drug Policy and Civil Asset Forfeiture (Drug Policy) (10/18/2002)
http://www.aclu.org/DrugPolicy/DrugPolicy.cfm?ID=10988&c=76


http://www.aclu-wa.org

Nazism or the Ganjawar?

SCAPEGOATING - Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE - LIES - NO PUBLIC DEBATE - DEHUMANIZATION - PROTECT OUR CHILDREN - CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED - LEGAL DESCRIMINATION - INFORMERS - CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY - REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY - ("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")



"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy

Marijuana Revolution by John Sinclair
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4819.shtml

John Sinclair
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4978.shtml

10-4-2 John Lennon - John Sinclair
http://tinyurl.com/582jo

How FIJA Saved My Life!
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/jsmill/fija1293.htm



Cannabis Club Raided
By Rosanna Mah March 23, 2005
The United Medical Caregivers Clinic was raided by the LAPD on Tuesday, March 15, at around 3 p.m. after receiving a resident’s complaint about people smoking marijuana joints along Wilshire Boulevard and Muirfield Avenue, not far from the location of the clinic.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20396.shtml

Ripping medicine out of the hands of the terminally ill
Strike another blow for inhumanity. The DEA apparently has no time to wait for the Supreme Court decision on the question of whether California Prop 215 trumps federal interstate commerce law and is very busy out there in California raiding another one of those "dangerous" compassionate care organizations growing medical marijuana to provide to chronically ill patients.
http://tinyurl.com/4uqxr

Cannabis Club Raided by DEA November 03, 2001
"They were as gracious as they can be when they are raping you,"
Imler says of the DEA agents.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11253.shtml

Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
http://freedomtoexhale.com/trialpics.htm
Green-Aid.com http://www.green-aid.com
Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org
Americans For Safe Access http://www.safeaccessnow.org



"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

For Ashcroft, Ideology Overrides Suffering
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11368.shtml

John Ashcroft Declares War On Non-Terrorists
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11361.shtml

To Fight Terrorism, First Scuttle the Drug War
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11249.shtml

Priorities, Priorities, Terrorism, Not Pot
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11245.shtml

America's Other War
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11240.shtml

How Terrorists Profit from Drugs
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12379.shtml

Silencing Political Dissent
http://tinyurl.com/5zogo

Terrorism and the Constitution
http://tinyurl.com/54527

The Law of Posse Comitatus
http://tinyurl.com/4oxmq

The Drug War Is The Inquisition by Dan Russell
http://www.drugwar.com/dwi.shtm

The War on Drugs is Necessitating War on Terrorism
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11104.shtml

Supporting the Drug War Supports Terrorism By Andrew Looney
http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Politics/WODvsWOT.html
Who Are The Real Bad Guys?
http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Politics/TheRealBadGuys.html

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
National Column Robert Scheer.com
Published May 22,2001 in the Los Angeles Times
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today.
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01...umns/052201.htm


http://www.lp.org/drugwar