I think "Whatever" has raised the right issue. It's not about our right to use legal marijuana as medicine, it's the right of people to not to have our PG&E records subpoened, our phones tapped, our e-mails spyed on, be detained, searched, id'd, ticketed, arrested, have our property seized, imprisoned, loss of business & drivers licenses, loss of our reputations, and suffering community censure for using any substance whatsoever in our bodies---whether heroin or pot, cigarettes or beer.

It really is no one's business but our own what we drink, whiff, snort, smoke, eat, inhale, or stick up our butts. Certainly NOT the governmen'ts.

I'm glad for Valerie and Mike, for the WAMM plaintives, the medical marijuana patients in Santa Cruz County, and even the Board of Supervisors and the City Council who put their name on the line (Not their money, mind you) and supported this suit against the DEA.

But mostly I want to thank Judge Fogel who, despite enormous political pressure by Ashcroft and the DEA, didn't cave and gave what would be the right decision in this situation. It's rare to see such individual courage in a person already high up in the infrastructure. He is a model to others.

Get on every jury!!!

And a message for DA Bob Lee: You now have the green light to press charges against DEA agents who trespassed, brandished weapons, vandalized and property, feloniously burglarized, and kidnapped Valerie and Mike Corrall in their pajamas, but failed to even press charges.