To the Editor:

I am tired of the negativity in current headlines concerning marijuana. I advocate organizing the McHenry County Cannabis Co-operative.

Hypocritical marijuana-prohibition laws discourage networking and prevent establishment of legal businesses. Cannabis proponents are therefore isolated and oppressed Americans. But our interests could bring us together: helping individuals and the community to thrive.

My First US Federal Prison Visit With my Heroic Political Prisoner Husband, Marc Emery

by Jodie Emery - Friday, June 18 2010

There was a table with the paperwork to fill out for visiting, but no pen. Thankfully there were some visitors there who had been through it all before and helped me figure out the process (and loaned me a pen), because you don't get any answers from the staff. Visiting officially begins at 2pm on Fridays, but by 2:15 they just started processing, which took a very long time itself.

Ed, is a friend of mine, he has been to my house, and we have partied together, Ed also headed up the New Jersey state chapter of the U.S. Marijuana Party.

By Sam Wood
Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Wed, Apr. 7, 2010

A Little Piece of Me

Every since I was old enough to remember, everyone always needed a little piece of me.

Sometimes not so little. From Husband, and Children to Grandchildren, and all of my other family members, my Mother, and Father, true friends, and people who just ended up here because they had no where else to go. As a child I always had to "go help someone in the neighborhood"...and I was off and gone to the next adventure of someone who needed something.

When my Father became terminally ill, about three months prior to his passing he called me and asked me if "I could get him some of that pot". He thought it might make him feel better.

At the time I was not aware of Marijuana as medicine, only something we did on occassion to lighten our moods. As a result my Father never received the medication he wanted/needed to ease his end of life pain and depression.

Immediately after my Father died, my Mother had to have continuous care as she had Alzheimer's.

Day in and day out I watched her slowly just slip away. When the news was on September 11th, 2001, she thought she was watching a movie. I cared for her for six years before I could no longer physically do it at which time I had to place her in LT care. I still feel guilty about it. Maybe she could have been helped with Hemp Oil?

I've seen just about everything from "huffer's" laying on the street corner's, alcoholics, all types of drug addictions, RX drug addicts (which is predominant in Ky), family violence, families loosing their kids because they can't support them, because of a multitude of reasons including lack of mental health care, slave labor jobs, inadequate child care, and just giving up.

In 2002-2003 I searched the internet for information on medical marijuana and when I found all this information out there it was like I had an "awakening". For some unknown reason, the letters MMJ came to my mind on one of those first mornings and I found Tonya Davis of MMJ Action Network.

She is the first person I reached out to in the movement and I still believe my Father led me to her.

Tonya encouraged me to write an article for Treating Yourself Magazine, which I did.

From then on it has been like a roller coaster through all the different avenues of repealing the prohibition of a God given plant, "Calamus", for our use as a medication, self indulgence, religion, and/or incense for that matter. I don't care what you use it for, it should have never been made illegal to begin with. No Government should ever have the control over any plant(s) that you want to grow for your personal use, whether it be valuable or invaluable, whether it be for food, medicine, decoration, self indulgence or to build with. (Yes, HEMP is used to build homes! Check out http://oldbuilders.com) Or for any other reason!

By the time 2005 came along I had to decide where I was going to concentrate my efforts. The Medical Marijuana movement would have been good for me since I, too was a patient. But after much thought I decided why not beat them at their own game?.

I had found the U.S. Marijuana Party.

Now it is 2010 and the timing is right for a bold political move on the part of all of us. We must defeat the Industrialist nightmare that has plagued our Country since the British arrived.

The Civil War never ended. We are still fighting for our "rights" as Americans, and fighting it with our very lives with our own Government.

The Patriot Act has effectively eliminated all of our Constitutional Rights.

We are being sold security at the cost of our own personal rights.

Right now, THEY surround US. WE need to SURROUND THEM.

For these reasons, I am a member of the U.S. Marijuana Party.

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA WILL HELP SAVE THE PLANET!

ShereeKrider