I just got this from Charles C Lynch

Check out this political cartoon in the local Free News Paper…

http://www.friendsofccl.com/cartoon.htm

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I'm really surprised at the lack of responses I'm getting. I would've thought people on this site would be interested in this sort of thing.I will dance like thiswhen more people show more interest in important things like the situation that Charles C. Lynch is in

Come on people! If you live nearby and can help please do! Rememeber the Young shall inherit the earth! When we are gone it's up to you! If you like the ease of getting your MMJ Help!!!

I would but I live in SD and I can not sit or stand very long!

of also come up with a list of ways you can help and you can do most of these from any location anything even do them with limitations. Pick one or more to do and you will make a difference in your own way:

I've come up with a list of how You can help Charles Lynch:


~ I am planning a protest for 10/6 which is the next day Charlie will be in the Federal Courthouse in Downtown LA. Court support will start at 8am and rally will begin at 11am. The courthouse is located at 312 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles. Protesters are encouraged to bring acoustic instruments to the rally. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), Marijuana project policy (MPP), and National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml) will be helping plan and organize this event. WE NEED AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO ATTEND.



~ Email Charles




~ Donations. Charles Lynch has been unable to find work since the DEA and Local Sheriffs department violently raided his home and business. If everyone donated a $1 that would be helpful. If people can afford more that's great. I know one senior-citizen medical-cannabis patient who donated $50 because she knew she wasn't going to be able to physical support as much as she wants to.



~ Offer Charles a job. He's a software engineer by trade and lives in San Luis Obispo county.



~ Write Judge Wu and plead for Charlie's freedom. Supporters who wish to write a letter of support regarding sentencing should use the Letter salutation "Dear Judge Wu" and then send the letter to: Reuven Cohen Federal Public Defender at 321 East 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012-4702. A sample outline can be found on Charlie's website. I've written 3 letters myself (I had 2 other patients sign one of those letters each). And I'm continuing to write letters.





~contact the media to tell them about this story and let them know how you feel.




~contact your congress people. E-mail, phone, write, and visit your Senators and your House of Representatives. If you don't know who your House of Representatives Congress member is go to www.house.gov and put your zip code +4 in the upper left-hand corner. if you don't know who your Senators are go to www.senate.gov. You can even visit your congress member's offices fairly close to your own home because they have satellite offices throughout their districts. Contacting Congress is vital because laws change in Congress and the only reason why the DEA and federal prosecutors are allowed to do what they're doing is because of a federal law; that law needs to be changed.




~ Pray for Charlie's freedom and for Judge Wu to use divine justice.




~ Spread the word about Charles Lynch and the protest. Talk to family, friends, associates, co-workers, classmates, schoolmates, roommates, lovers, anyone who will listen. Ask them what they think about the situation. If they don't know that much, inform them. Forward this email to everyone on your email list. Repost this on facebook, myspace, craigslist, live journal, blogspot, and any other website or forum you frequent.




~ Thank those that have been fighting for justice in this situation.




~ Join organizations like Americans for Safe Access, Marijuana Policy Project, NORML, etc. These organizations are making changes in legislation so people like Charles Lynch do not have to suffer at the hands of the Federal government.

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To be honest I don't really like that cartoon. Even if it is meant to ridicule Sheriff Hedges, it still feeds the negative stoner stereotypes too.
It's my medicine, and I wish it were treated as such.

Labeling cannabis with negative terms like "pot" or "evidence", showing someone with spacey eyes having a not-too-profound "mind-expanding" experience, and having him stealing meds from a drawer labeled C.Lynch no less... it's all the same type of deliberate misinformation and criminalization that keeps the public ignorant, that allows for persecution of men like Charles Lynch, and that makes the legalization of cannabis even more difficult.

good point. He still think the sheriff should smoke some medicine. It would do him some good.I like to see a cartoon where the Department of Justice, the DEA, and the sheriff or smoke in joints of taxpayers' money