Sad Federalny USA orzekl, ze uzytkownicy marihuany do celow leczniczych sa przestepcami i beda bezwzglednie scigani przez amerykanski wymiar sprawiedliwosci. Nic dziwnego. Oprocz policji (latwiej, bezpieczniej i przyjemniej polowac na roslinki niz na prawdziwych przestepcow) najwiekszymi przeciwnikami legalizacji ziolka, czy to do celow terapeutycznych czy do celow rekraacyjnych, sa firmy farmaceutyczne. Przeciez ktos musi bronic ich miliardowych dochodow. Co by bylo jakby wolni obywatele hodowali sobie lekarstwo za darmo w domowych ogrodkach? Na taka wolnosc w amerykanskim raju wolnosci prawo nie moze pozwolic. No bo w amerykanskim raju nic nie ma za darmo.
Dying woman loses court appeal in marijuana case
U.S. federal court rules she could face prosecution
appeal lost
* Raich, 41, began sobbing when she was told of the decision and said she would continue using the drug. "I'm sure not going to let them kill me," she said. "Oh my God."
A California woman whose doctor says maijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive is not immune from federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The case was brought by Angel Raich, an Oakland mother of two who suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumour, chronic nausea and other ailments. On her doctor's advice, she eats or smokes marijuana every couple of hours to ease her pain and bolster a non-existent appetite, as conventional drugs did not work.
The Supreme Court ruled against Raich two years ago, saying medical marijuana users and their suppliers could be prosecuted for breaching federal drug laws even if they lived in a state such as California where medical pot is legal.
Because of that ruling, the issue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was narrowed to the so-called right to life theory: that marijuana should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive.
ASSOCIATED PRESS (METRO, Thursday, March 15, 2007).
06:30 Hrs. "Chcemy aby kazdy osobiscie zdeklarowal sie w tej sprawie" - Roman Giertych na temat zmiany konstytucji w sprawie ustawodastwa antyaborcyjnego w dzienniku w Polskim Radiu Toronto na fali 1320 AM. W Niemczech zagrozenie terrorystyczne. Na Wegrzech niepokoje spoleczne.
06:43 Hrs. Nawet jesli pada deszcz, ja mysle o grzechu - unosi sie w PRT 1320 AM. ESSO, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $1.03.7. Beaver $1.03.5. Na dworzu jeszcze wiosennie i 3-stopniowo.
15:28 Hrs. Zimno. Minus 3-stopniowo + wiatr z polnocy. Naprzeciw wejscia do High Parku mloda para sie sciska i obmacuje. Znak, ze wiosna jednak w drodze.
Poland honours woman who saved Jewish children
DECLARED NATIONAL HEROINE
BY HARRY DE QUETTEVILLE
POZNAN, POLAND * For most Jewish children imprisoned behind the walls of the Warsaw ghetto, the only exit led to concentration camps and the gas chambers.
However, thousands did find salvation in the form of Irena Sendler, who smuggled them out in workmen's bags or through the sewers, before taking them to safety and hiding them with friendly families around the city.
Yesterday Ms. Sendler, now 97, was honoured as a national heroine by the Polish parliament for saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Second World War.
The ceremony, which Ms. Sendler was too frail to attend, marked another step in Poland's recent attempts to efface a long-standing reputation for anti-Semitism largely fostered by the post-war communist regime.
In the Polish senate, politicians gathered to hear one woman who was saved by Ms. Sendler read out a letter on her behalf. "Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory," Ms. Sendler said in the letter, read out by Elzbieta Ficowska, who was just six months old when she was saved from the ghetto by Ms. Sendler's resistance group.
"Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget." Poland's President Lech Kaczynski described Ms. Sendler, who has been nominated for this year's Noble Peace Prize, as a "great hero who deserves respect from our entire nation."
But it was in the years after the Nazi occupation of Poland that Ms. Sendler began the dangerous work for which she was finally honoured yesterday - establishing a network of friends and acquaintances to help some of the half million Jews forced into the ghetto.
Some 400,000 of those died, either through disease in the ghetto or at the death camps where a total of three million Polish Jews perished. Until 1943, Ms. Sendler used her status as a Warsaw municipal welfare officer to roam the ghetto, ostensibly to combat contagious diseases.
But according to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial centre which has already honoured Ms. Sendler as a "righteous gentile" for her actions, she used her visits to hand out money, clothes and medicines. She disguised herself by donning a Star of David armband used by the Nazis to mark out Jews, and organized escape plans for thousands of children.
Some were carried out in bags, while others were saved by crawling through the network of sewers common to the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. Once free, the children were sent by Ms. Sendler to Warsaw families, orphanages or convents where they were hidden. For each success, Ms. Sendler buried a jar containing the child's name, to help families reunite after the war.
Sadly, for most Jewish families that was not to be after SS chief Heinrich Himmler visited the Polish town of Poznan in 1943, and told fellow SS officers they were to achieve "the extermination of the Jewish people."
The Warsaw ghetto originally contained more than 450,000 people, but by January, 1943, deportations to death camps, summary executions, starvation and disease had reduced it to just several tens of thousands.
On Oct. 20, 1943, six months after the failed Warsaw ghetto uprising, Ms. Sendler was arrested by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo. She was tortured, her arms and legs broken, but she refused to give up the names of those she had saved, and she was scheduled for execution.
However, members of the resistance managed to bribe a Gestapo officer and she escaped, officially listed as dead, and hid for the rest of the war. "She's a great lady, very courageous, and I think she's a model for the whole international community," Israel's ambassador to Poland, David Peleg, said at the ceremony.
"Her courage is a very special one," Mr. Peleg added. Ms. Sendler has said she does not consider herself a heroine. "I still have a bad conscience for having done so little," she has said.
The Daily Telegraph, with files from Agence France-Presse (NATIONAL POST, Thursday, March 15, 2007).
Wielgus chcial robic kariere i wyjechac na Zachod - tak tlumaczy "Rzeczpospolita" motywy, dla ktorych zgodzil sie na wspolprace z SB. Istotnie dla tego syna ubogiej chlopskiej rodziny w komunistycznej Polsce byly tylko dwie mozliwosci ucieczki przed bieda na wsi: partia albo seminarium duchowne (DIE TAGESZEITUNG: ALBO PARTIA, ALBO SEMINARIUM, FORUM 2 / 8.01.-14.01.2007).
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