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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Drug czar's office says MPP "conning" sick people "Tom Riley, a spokesman for the [drug czar's] office, said advocacy groups such as the Marijuana Policy Project are actually pushing drug legalization and 'cynically' exploiting sick people who use pot. 'There is a con going on here, and I am surprised that smart people continue to fall for it,' he told us." - Washington Post, May 4, 2005, http://www.mpp.org/USA/news_2276.html The people whom the drug czar's office says MPP is "conning" are TV host Montel Williams and U.S. Representatives Sam Farr (D-CA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Ron Paul (R-TX), and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who participated last Wednesday in MPP's most successful news conference ever. Reporters and TV cameras mobbed MPP's Capitol Hill event as Congressmen Farr, Frank, Hinchey, Paul, and Rohrabacher announced their introduction of a bipartisan bill to protect patients from arrest in states with medical marijuana laws. The news conference was covered by dozens of newspapers and more than 130 TV stations nationwide, including CNN, Fox News Channel, CBS News, and the Associated Press. MPP also was featured in articles by the Washington Post, Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, Roll Call, and more. Visit http://www.mpp.org/USA/news_2277.html to see some of the coverage and to watch a video clip of Montel's emotional plea. Would you please support MPP's hard-hitting, aggressive work by making a donation at http://www.mpp.org/donate2093 today? Also last week, MPP led Montel and dozens of activists from around the country in lobbying members of Congress to protect medical marijuana patients -- and we're already seeing results. For instance, after MPP member Sylvia Etie met with freshman Representative Charlie Melancon (D-LA), she walked out with a pledge from the congressman to vote for legislation that is coming up for a vote on the House floor this summer. MPP's work is funded entirely by private donations from people like you. If you support MPP's campaigns to end the government's war on marijuana users, would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate2093 to make a donation of $10 or more today? Sincerely, Rob Kampia P.S. Please also visit http://www.mpp.org/frankbill to ask your U.S. representative to support the bipartisan States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act. The Marijuana Policy Project hopes that each of the 121,000 subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in 2005. Please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate2093 to donate now. MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2005 strategic plan -- http://www.mpp.org/2005plan -- if you and other allies are generous enough to fund our work. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Neil McIver, Dakmar (#0)
And I was so sure he was talking about Big Pharma.
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