Pubdate: Thu, 01 July 1999 Source: Our Times Santa Monica (CA) Copyright: 1999 Times Community Newspapers Contact: http://www.ourtimes.com/home/ourtimes/santamonica/ Author: MARCY STEPHANS Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n653.a08.html MUZZLED MARIJUANA ACTIVIST A CASUALITY OF UNREALISTIC DRUG WAR The recent court order by Judge Albert Matthews to bar Joe "Hemp" Kidwell his First Amendment rights is typical of the totalitarian and illegal nature of marijuana prohibition. Those like Matthews show the inhumanity of our current legal imbroglio with regard to drugs, legal and illicit. How can a judge ban someone from talking about medicine? Who puts people like Matthews in charge? MARCY STEPHANS Santa Monica - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck