Ain't Nobody's Business

[Ganjarden]

Downsize DC has a added a new campaign for writing Congress. Its goal is to Help End the Mexican Civil War, and its message is simple: "Please bring peace to both Mexico and the United States by ending the War on Drugs." (You can add your own additions to it, of course.)

They're also remembering a very special person, who died 10 years ago yesterday – Peter McWilliams.

Peter is one of the Drug War Victims listed on my page, and is particularly significant:

Peter was a world-famous author and an advocate of medical marijuana, not only because he believed in it in principle, but because it was keeping him alive (he had AIDS and non-Hodgkins lymphoma). After California passed a law legalizing medical marijuana, Peter helped finance the efforts of Todd McCormick to cultivate marijuana for distribution to those who needed it for medical reasons. Federal agents got wind of his involvement, and Peter was a target for his advocacy. He was arrested, and in federal court was prevented from mentioning his medical condition or California's law. While he was on bail awaiting sentencing, the prosecutors threatened to take away his mother's house (used for bail) if he failed a drug test, so he stopped using the marijuana which controlled his nausea from the medications and allowed him to keep them down. He was found dead on the bathroom floor, choked to death on his own vomit.

I first got to know Peter McWilliams through his extraordinary book: Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society. It's a great book to own. You'll find inspiration all through it.

Thanks, Peter.


NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Drug WarRant
Author: Pete Guither
Contact: Drug WarRant
Copyright: 2010 Drug WarRant
Website: Ain't Nobody's Business

* Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article

 

[Oddnonsmoker]

He was arrested, and in federal court was prevented from mentioning his medical condition or California’s law. While he was on bail awaiting sentencing, the prosecutors threatened to take away his mother’s house (used for bail) if he failed a drug test, so he stopped using the marijuana which controlled his nausea from the medications and allowed him to keep them down. He was found dead on the bathroom floor, choked to death on his own vomit.

Can this count as negligent homicide? Denying someone a life-sustaining medication through penalty of law must count as some form of homicide, if not murder.

 

[MedicalNeed]

I do believe it is against the law to deny one medicine, so yes this should be followed up on and pushed to it's limit.

 

[bigjake]

Wow they showed him how evil mj is .

I wonder how that motherfucker feels now that he caused his death.
Sad.

 

[Purple Goose]

I do believe it is against the law to deny one medicine, so yes this should be followed up on and pushed to it's limit.

At the very least that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.