Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: [Floyd Landrath] at [f69.n105.z1.fidonet.org] (Floyd Landrath)
Subject: Med MJ, PDX Pumping It Up!
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 00:17:05 GMT


                     AMERICAN ANTI-PROHIBITION LEAGUE
                       4017 SE BELMONT ST., BOX 103
                       PORTLAND OREGON U.S.A. 97214
                             (503) 235-4524

                     Floyd Ferris Landrath -- Director

                     MEDICAL CANNABIS, BACK IN THE NEWS

   Portland, Ore, 1/7/93 --  As news broke Wednesday that the Clinton
administration will soon conduct a "review" of policies which
prohibit the medicinal use of cannabis, Portland activists are setting
up a Cannabis Buyers Club to provide the drug to people with a medical
need.
   The first edition of Thursday's Oregonian, carried the headline:
"Marijuana ban under review".  The story was written by Lauran Neergaard
for the Associated Press.  Later that day, the sunrise edition carried 
a front page story by Michelle Trappen, of the Oregonian staff, which
outlined the various uses of medical cannabis, quoted groups who were
both pro and con, and profiled a local man, John Pointer, who uses
cannabis for chronic back pain and muscle spasms.
   Today's editions of the Oregonian, in the Metro/Northwest section,
by the same writer, covers our efforts to establish a CBC here in
Portland.  Mr. Chris Iverson, head of the Northwest Hemp Foundation,
is pictured holding up cupped hands full of bud.  Mr. Iverson is
quoted as saying, "These people need to get this medication. ... 
Sure, working withing the system is the best way.  But we've been
robbed of this resource for too many years".
   That same story goes on to cover recent events in Seattle.  
"Organizers of a recently started Seattle club said they called
the DEA - twice - and told them they were growing MJ in a
local apartment. ... 'We asked them to come arrest us, and put
this issue in front of a court', said club orgainzer Marty Tildon,
29, a hempophiliac who is HIV-positive and smokes MJ six times
daily to ease pain. ... 'They hung up on us.', Tildon said."
   Organizers of the Portland club have gone on local cable access
calling for patients and doctors to step forward.  "Calls to the league
by those interested in joining the club are flooding in.", said an
anonymous spokeswoman for the league.