Mara Marcus and others legal stuff

Herb Folks:

If you have any motions, discoveries, court hearing transcripts etc, in pdf format or responses forward them to
"Mara Felsen" <mara.law@gmail.com>. There is a letter from her with a little more background on this page (scroll down).

Please mention if you want them kept private so only a person with a direct need can access or available to anybody.
She will start a motion bank for San Diego so that we can address the particular issues in our community.

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Pot providers are considering suing Bonnie Dumanis and others over 9 9 2009 gov't robberies raids answered...

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High Time For Change? - Produced by Christal Smith - You might think a conservative judge from a conservative county would advocate for the prohibition of marijuana, but - based on his experiences - he is adamantly pro legalization. VIDEO

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2009-11-24 Medical Marijuana Goes Retail: You Can Tax It
Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jacob Goldstein - ‎
California first approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, but it wasn't until 2004 that the state approved the creation of ...

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Privacy at issue in marijuana regulation
by Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer
September 27th, 2009
A controversial item that critics have said would violate medical marijuana patients' privacy rights is part of a proposal under review by the City Council, which would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries.
Long Beach Press-Telegram

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Ed Rosenthal's opinions: The Age of Unreason

DRUG WAR CRIMINALS
Send your Drug War Criminals to asked420@gmail.com (with a cc to Herbfolks.info@gmail.com please) with a description of why they are a Drug War Criminal
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1. Alameda County Assistant D.A. Norbert Chu

2. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman

3. Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force Commander Bob Nishiyama

4. John P. Walters and his daddy too!

5. Federal Prosecutor David Kowal (Charlie Lynch's prosecutor)

6. San Luis Obispo County (CA) Sheriff Pat Hedges (Charles Lynch)

7. DEA Special Agent Rachel Burkdohl (Agent in charge of Lynch case)

8. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County, Arizona (Volunteer chain gangs, Tent City, Pink underwear, Underwear march)

9. Rush Limbaugh “Too many white get away with drug use. The answer is to… find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river!”

10. Richard M. Nixon, for burdening posterity with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and the 'war on drugs' concept.

11. CA Attorney General Jerry Brown

12. Drug Czar Kerlikowske- “Marijuana Has No Medical Uses”

13. Ron Brooks NARC Spokesman

14. Judge Antollini (From the Will Foster Trial)

15. Judge Marilyn Patel (Sentenced Eddy Lepp)

16. Antonin Scalia
"Scalia was the swing vote to uphold the Federal Governments prerogative to go after medical consumers of homegrown pot, on the grounds that this activity supposedly affects interstate commerce."
-from the article "Antonin Scalia, judicial activist: how the conservative justice legislates from the bench" by Cathy Young

Scalia ruled that the state of Oregon could deny unemployment benefits to two members of the Native American Church that were fired for using peyote in their religious ceremonies
(Oregon vs. Smith 1990)

17. DEA Agent Karen Tandy

9/29/09- "Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement.... Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."

18. San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis- Operation Green Rx

19. Anslinger

20. Rockefeller

21. William Randolph Hearst

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select Bonnie Dumanis Answers to Who for the dialogs preceeding this set....

Mara checks in and recaps where we are today, 10/1/2009

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Good morning everyone,

I have a few thoughts I'd like to share on the e-mails that have been
flying around.

Coordination of efforts; national vs. local

These seem to be the biggest issues we have to deal with. As we know,
there are many organizations now getting involved. People have raised
issues re: national organizations vs. local efforts. I don't think we
can look at this as an either or thing. This is an issue that
critically effects San Diego but as we have seen, this community is
either uninformed, apathetic or both.

I STRONGLY believe that the way to get movement on this issue is to
broadcast UNTIL WE ARE BLUE IN THE FACE that the issues raised here
critically concern ALL citizens because it is an example of local
police and prosecutors committing wholesale violations of civil and
constitutional rights in direct defiance of the will of the people of
California. Their actions are going unchecked because those objecting
most to what is going on have either been arrested, jailed without
bail and/or are too sick to protest.

I know I am preaching to the converted here but my point is this - we
MUST broaden our scope beyond San Diego -- if for no other reason than
to show that this is a concerted effort by California DAs, police, and
narcotics officers to upend the law and that this is a STATEWIDE issue
that is NOT confined to SD. and, it is not confined to CA because it
is a question of federalism and state's rights to establish medical
practices within the state (an issue that has been settled in the
courts, but not if you ask one of the county board of supervisors).

Back to coordination -- our problem is that we are so incredibly
fragmented. There is ASA, Norml and others. I think we can gain from
our association with them but I think that most peoples' concern is
that these organizations are being hijacked by some people with the
loudest voices who make more of a case for themselves than the people
who are similarly situated to them. The more any one person tries to
make this about THEIR OWN CASE, the more everyone has to lose. That is
my personal opinion and I will leave it there.

I am 100% behind the idea of a web database of documents. these should
include: documents related to criminal proceedings - summonses,
warrants, transcripts, etc for op green rx/endless summer defendants;
newspaper articles on the issue, public statements from our beloved
government officials, etc. The google document application is great -
we will just have to decide how we want to allow access to it.

I think one of the primary things that needs to happen, at the very
least, is to have minutes (notes from the meeting) circulated after
these meetings occur so at least people know what is going on.
(hopefully that will reduce some duplication.)

Lastly, regarding updates for court hearings and other public events
-- there doesn't seem to be a clear place to go to get this
information easily and quickly. The Herbfolks website and
sandiegomarijuana.com are both great starts but I find it quite
difficult to sift through all the other information to get to the
court, legal and newspaper updates. If we actually want people to
show up and be informed, we need to make it much easier than that and
frankly, we need to have a website that has this information without
other commercial information (like where to buy weed currently.)

we have so much great energy - like everyone else, I just want to
focus it so we can accomplish our mutual goals.

much love,
Mara

I am very happy to let Marcus run with coordination if he wants that
job -- its a huge one! Be prepared!

we are moving to a more comfortable home, excuse the mess, we will finish soon. For now, see theHolyHerb.com for a preview.

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