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...instead they fight federal policy with initiative after initiative, while also defending local pro-pot laws. Their side got a major media boost in California in September, when federal agents busted Santa Cruz's Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in an early-morning raid. The feds dragged the farm's owners, who were legally growing pot under California law, to a federal building in San Jose for breaking federal law and held a paraplegic resident at the farm for hours. "I opened my eyes to see five federal agents pointing assault rifles at my head. 'Get your hands over...
...William Lansdowne was so annoyed by the raid that he withdrew his officers from the local DEA task force, ending 15 years of close work. Even Governor Gray Davis, who has been quiet on the marijuana issue, expressed concern over the feds' bust. A week after the raid, Santa Cruz officials gathered at city hall to supervise public distribution of marijuana to members of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in front of TV crews, a way of giving Washington the finger...
DIED. NORMAN O. BROWN, 89, critic-philosopher beloved of the counterculture; in Santa Cruz, Calif. In such books as Closing Time, a unique look at James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Life Against Death, which analyzed history from a psychoanalytic perspective, Brown drew on Marx and Freud to produce original, erudite, occasionally baffling insights. "Reading Brown was a little like taking drugs," said a critic, "only it was more likely to lead to tenure...
...DIED. NAYA, 25, tree-sitter for Earth First!, an environmental group; after falling 30 meters from a redwood tree the organization was trying to protect from loggers; near Santa Cruz, California. Naya?known to fellow activists only by his "tree name"?was a homeless man who joined the group recently. He spent 12 hours on a platform in the redwood canopy before falling...
...Ernesto Cruz ’05 does not play a sport here at Harvard, but he was an athlete in high school, playing both varsity basketball and lacrosse. Ernesto’s DHAs were a gift from his uncle, who graduated in 2000, who got them from his roommate who was a rower. “They just have sentimental value since they were a gift,” Ernesto says, and that is why he made sure he got them back from his girlfriend after they broke up. “I bit the bullet and made her send...