Pubdate: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Source: Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, CA) Copyright: 2009 Hi Desert Star Contact: http://www.hidesertstar.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3921 Author: Terry Millen COUNCIL WILL PAY FOR MARIJUANA STANCE The people before the Yucca Valley Town Council are the lame, the hopeless, the sick and the injured. Some are in the last stages of their lives, some just beginning into that journey of hopelessness and pain. All of them have absolutely genuine medical reasons for choosing, by their constitutional right, a homeopathic herbal remedy which we call cannabis or marijuana. * We, these people who go before the council meetings and those unable to be there, chose the council members to represent us and to protect us. And now they blatantly betray our trust, incite us in a time we do not need additional anger and hatred in our lives and community, and openly guarantee to violate our civil rights by depriving us of our chosen and legal method of medication. The council members think they know everything on the issue, yet they know nothing on the issue. They seek no outside citizen participation in the process, creating unparalleled bias. They openly disseminate misinformation. They have labeled us who voted for them as social miscreants and outcasts. They have openly demonstrated the very worst in conservative government, and, I must speak quite frankly, are the local type and root of the cause of our current economic and social woes. They demonstrate open and ignorant prejudice that quite simply can no longer be tolerated in public officials. I speak to each of these council members and as a group. The beginning is over. Let the lawsuits begin against the town. Let the lawsuits begin against the individuals. Let the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice enforce an indictment against them. It is time for a recall. Terry Millen Morongo Valley EDITOR'S NOTE -- This letter was edited to fall within the 300-word limit - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom