US Government Murders Innocent Quadraplegic

Excerpted from an email from mpp.org.

On September 27, Jonathan Magbie died while serving a 10-day sentence for marijuana possession in a jail in Washington, D.C.

Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic who used marijuana to treat his chronic pain, was unable to breathe on his own. The jail, unable to meet his medical needs, allowed him to die while in custody. Visit http://www.mpp.org/states/site/quicknews.cgi?key=8319 for the article.

After he was arrested, Magbie was unable to present his medical use of marijuana as a defense in court, despite the fact that 69% of D.C. voters passed a local medical marijuana initiative in November 1998. Why? Because -- every year during its annual budgeting process -- Congress votes to reestablish the federal law that prevents
the local initiative from taking effect.

Every week, we at the Marijuana Policy Project are bruised and shocked by numerous instances of the government arresting, threatening to shoot, seizing the property of, and now killing medical marijuana patients. Our government is out of control, and it is our duty -- it's your duty -- to rein in the government ... our
government.

We absolutely must change more and more state laws until Congress is forced to change federal law to allow the states to determine their own marijuana policies without federal interference.

We can change three state laws simultaneously on November 2 if you would be so kind as to visit http://www.mpp.org/donate1065 to donate $10 or more today.

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