I am writing to you from the "underground", as one of millions who are disenfranchised by the current sociopolitical climate in the United States. Although I am not behind bars, I am a political prisoner in my own country, as my private behavior is dictated by laws which I did not participate in creating, and I am governed by officials who were elected in a political process fueled by money and handshakes. My direct democracy is limited to voting on irrelevant local ordinance propositions, and my ideas are not reflected in most corporate-owned media sources.

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I am grateful for the First Amendment rights I have, and I am morally compelled to exercise them, struggling against apathy, cynicism, and nihillism.

Federal legislators recently decided to subvert democracy by refusing to tally the election results on Initiative 59, after nearly 70% of Washington D.C. voters decided to allow medical marijuana in their district.

By appealing to an constitutionally specious law which forbids them to spend any money on relaxing marijuana policy, our legislators are playing politics while cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, and spinal cord injury patients are suffering.

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