Illinois Marijuana Party Press Release

CONTACT INFO:
Illinois Marijuana Party
Richard Rawlings
1022 Collins Ct.
Bartonville, IL 61607-1714
USA
Phone: 309-633-1023
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ilmjp.com
 
Two Candidates currently slated to run in 2004
 
The Illinois Marijuana Party is publicly announcing that two
Candidates are seeking office in the 2004 election.
 
The Illinois Marijuana Party, a branch of the US Marijuana Party
(www.usmjparty.com) is announcing publicly today that we have two
Candidates that you will be hearing a great deal about in the near
future.
 
Richard Rawlings of Bartonville Illinois, 18th District has decided to
run for US Congress. Mr. Rawlings is an experienced activist and
seeker of reform and abolishment of laws pertaining to marijuana.
 
Brian K. Meyer of Belleville Illinois, 12th District announced that he
is running for US Congress. Mr. Meyer has an lengthy background on
marijuana laws, lobbying, writing, legal research and treatment
issues. He is also versed in financial and insurance issues. His
positions are clear and direct:
 
"Abolish the prohibition of marijuana as a drug, industrial, and
agricultural plant as it was for thousands of years and offer
treatment for the drug aspect instead of incarceration. The aspects of
spending billions of dollars on prisons and probation that only deepen
despair of a drug addict, and alienate them from society with a drug
conviction is ludicrous."
 
"It seems that the US government got into the act of personal control
over each individual and that is the duty of the local governments,
not the US Federal Government. Addressing a social problem with
Draconian incarcerations and stripping away of what freedoms are left
is unconscionable"  "If an individual of mature age decides to smoke
marijuana for medical reasons he/she should not be threatened with
federal prosecution."
 
Mr. Meyer is a former Director of MicroSense of St. Louis LLC which
during his year there had difficulties in obtaining FDA approval for a
medical device, and he knows the paperwork involved in bringing a
product to market. "The amount of scrutiny on a new product is
outrageous for many drugs that occur naturally.  I believe that the
evidence of thousands of years of marijuana use, along with the hidden
studies from private drug companies trying to contain the active
ingredient(s) is a farce.  The composition of marijuana is one of
natural balance, not individual accomplishments."
 
Mr. Meyer believes that the federal government has overstepped its
powers in the arena of private citizens and should be made to back
down and stop asserting powers over the states and its citizens in
personal attacks against its citizens.
 
"The war on drugs was just a fill in since there were no wars to fight
during the past era. We now have real problems and the folly of
putting people away for long periods of time for smoking pot are
expensive, irresponsible, and in the long run are causing many more
social issues, such as fatherless homes. Now there will be more
dependence on the US Government for that aid. Ultimately more chemical
dependency problems from the children who believe have been abandoned
or that the government had their parents taken away from them for a
crime that is a social problem."
 
"In the attempts of winning the hearts and minds of the world, the US
government have crushed the hearts and minds of thousands upon
thousands of individuals, with collateral damage in the millions. Our
tax dollars working hard for you!"
 
Mr. Meyer is in favor of abolishing many of the gun control laws as
they are only enforced against certain persons. For stronger privacy
bills through revision of current laws regarding spam, telephone
solicitors. Enacting truth in trial laws. For laws allowing the
purchase of prescription drugs abroad for price reduction, Medicare
reform, social security reform, For open disclosure of criminal
actions that have occurred against citizens of the US along with
trials if need be of government officials who are guilty of treasonous
acts against the people of the United States. In favor with abolishing
minimum mandatory sentences, or the one crime fits one sentence
thinking. In favor of campaign finance reform. In favor of open
government and public access. In favor of rooting out public
corruption, at all levels. In favor of cleaning up Capitol Hill as
"the stone is turning grey from the suet of the burning anger and
flesh of our countries citizens."
 
For more information on the US Marijuana Party or any of its
affiliates go to http://www.usmjparty.com. For more information on the
candidates for Illinois log onto http://www.ilmjp.com