Pubdate: Thu, 11 Jan 2001
Source: News Journal (DE)
Copyright: 2001 The News Journal
Contact:  Letters to Editor, Box 15505, Wilmington, DE 19850
Fax: (302) 324-2595
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Author: Mark Pokoiski

COURT AND CONGRESS TRAMPLE ON OUR RIGHTS

Dear Editors,

I am happy to see the many letters from outraged citizens concerning the 
political manuevering of the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court 
recently trumped the will of the voters of California too.

Proposition 215 was passed by 63 percent of California voters in 1996, 
allowing medical use of marijuana. It is known as the Compassionate Use Act.

The law was rendered irrelevant until the court decides whether it is truly 
in favor of states' rights or maintaining the federal government's death 
grip on our civil rights.

The people of California will know whether they were right or wrong to vote 
yes on Proposition 215 when the Supreme Court tells them in June.

Congress also has little regard for the will of the people. Washington D.C. 
residents passed a similar referendum concerning medical marijuana in 1998, 
but Congress preformed backflips to prevent Initiative 59 from taking effect.

These outrageous acts have as much to do with marijuana as tea did at the 
Boston Tea Party. It's about control.
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