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Dear HempWorld

We in the United States see opportunities for you in your courts that are not nearly as easy here.  A victory in a state court may change state law, but leave the federal law standing.  Of course, the same is true if the situation is reversed.  This is also true for changes thru the political process.  Already in California we have a medical marijuana user who may be prosecuted under federal law because the local cops think they could not win under the state law passed by the initiative of the people. 

Thus we see our system as more entrenched, much harder to change, and envy you. 

Of course, you may well choose to honor those treaties we roped you into signing that were designed to insure you march in goose step with us in this War on ( Some ) Drugs. 

We know, from experience and history, that the only way the Prohibitionists can win their War on ( Some ) Drugs is to suspend all our constitutional freedoms and impose a dictatorship.  We fear the road the United States is on and pray other countries do not follow us into the same trap. 

Without even considering any possible successes in the courts, Chris Clay's trial has so far resulted in a mostly favorable press ( including radio and TV coverage ) and hundreds of published letters to the editor which alone make the costs an unbelievable value.  It would cost many times the price so far to have the same favorable impact thru advertising. 

As for the results of the trial, I consider them better than I would have hoped for a local court.  I always assumed that any real change would be the result of the appeal process. 

Richard Lake Sylvania, Ohio, USA email:rlake@mapinc.org Retired US Army Officer, educator on the staff of the University of Toledo.  Member of DrugSense ( http://www.drugsense.org/ ), an international organization moving the discourse on drugs from hysteria to sanity and humanity.  Activist on this issue since 1968.