Dear President Obama, A Travesty of Justice Occurs:
I am a retired cardiovascular surgeon, who has been targeted and victimized. I have lost my freedom and Constitutional right to bail, which limits my ability to defend myself. I have lost my family, my career, my property, my family photos and heirlooms and everything I worked for my entire life. Police have made public statements, indicating I am guilty, prior to court; and place false photos in local media, showing marijuana plants, when none were found. This and the profit motive, will prevent me from receiving a fair trial. I have been subjected to cruel treatment, which amounts to physical and mental torture. If I could give my life so this would not happen to others, I would. Jimmy Carter stated, “The punishment should not do more the harm to society than the drug” (medicine). If no laws are broken by the personal use of marijuana, the property seizure and taking freedom from citizens, is itself a crime. I am a P.O.W. in the war on drugs; the war against our own citizen. So I say this to you, President Obama, “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death… Stop the War!... Reschedule Cannabis as a medicine!” ~ David B. Allen, M.D. Spring 2011 Originally published in the Prison Outreach Press, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2011). Cite this article: Allen, David. "An Open Letter to President Obama." Prison Outreach Press 2.2 (2011): 6. Print. |