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HELP FIX FLAWS IN THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW

Maui resident Brian Murphy is a disabled veteran who has long been an
advocate for patient's rights regarding the use of medical marijuana
for pain control. In an effort to help legitimate patients acquire
their medicine, Murphy began a not-for-profit cooperative organization
called Patients Without Time (PWT). PWT operated successfully for
several years with the knowledge of Maui County law enforcement before
recently closing its doors.

While PWT was in operation, many patients were able to reduce or
eliminate their dependence upon dangerous prescription pharmaceutical
drugs. Some of these drugs, such as OxyContin, have multiple negative
side effects, among them the potential to become highly addictive. PWT
was able to reduce patient's usage of OxyContin alone on Maui by over
10,000 doses simply by making medical marijuana available to eligible
patients for pain relief.

Unfortunately, many medical marijuana patients who previously received
their medication free of charge from PWT are now without a safe,
reliable source. Without access to PWT, many former members have been
forced to again resort to dangerous prescription drugs for pain
management. Maui has seen at least one patient end up in the hospital
for accidental overdose of prescription pharmaceutical pain medication
since PWT closed its doors.

Murphy shut down PWT after two occurrences. The appearance of a
profit-based, California-style dispensary in Kihei, which sold
marijuana and operated under very different guidelines than PWT was
the first one, and it eliminated some of the urgent necessity with
which PWT had operated. It's unclear, however, whether this
organization is currently operating.

The second incident was Brian's home being broken into. He was at home
at the time, and was physically assaulted; he bears scars on his
forehead today from the attack by perpetrators who were clearly
interested in his medical marijuana.

As a result, Murphy closed down PWT and has shifted his focus to the
electoral process in an effort to help keep medical marijuana patients
out of harm's way, working on both the state and county levels to make
medical marijuana safely available to legitimate patients again.

Brian Murphy is now Director of Maui County Citizens For Democracy In
Action (MCCFDIA), which intends to correct oversights in our current
medical marijuana law. To achieve this goal, MCCFDIA embraces one of
our most basic rights, the right to petition the government.

Murphy understands Willie Nelson's "A Peaceful Solution" project as a
question. He proposes that the answer is to take back America by
voting back America.

Voting on local issues can be remarkably effective on here on Maui;
residents often see national elections decided before the state gets a
chance to count their votes, and too often Hawaiian voters have become
discouraged by this. Voter turn out in Hawaii has become the lowest in
the United States.

Those who do vote locally often have a disproportionate voice in
determining local election outcomes. MCCFDIA wishes to help more Maui
citizens influence the laws they live under, and so voter registration
has evolved as the number one goal of MCCFDIA.

To meet their goal of recording 12,000 voter signatures, MCCFDIA will
hire people and pay them for every signature they obtain; call the
MCCFDIA office at 579-8320 to learn more. Classes are available so
anyone can become a Deputy Voter Registrar.

Before the last election, MCCFDIA worked within severely restrictive
incorrect county guidelines and still registered over 4,000 new Maui
voters while gathering over 6,000 signatures for their initiative.
Now, the county's error in interpretation of the initiative process
has been corrected, and expectations are high that MCCFDIA will meet
its goals. MCCFDIA would like to demonstrate how we could achieve a
peaceful solution through the electoral process by voting back America.

Part of this peaceful solution would be to insure that Maui's medical
marijuana patients have safe and secure access to their medicine. The
current medical marijuana law thrusts many needy patients into the
marijuana black market; patients with a legal license to use marijuana
have been victimized by both criminal elements and Maui law
enforcement officers deputized as Federal agents. This Catch-22 now in
place would be resolved by the MCCFDIA initiatives.

MCCFDIA has produced videos that have been shown on Akaku community
access television and are available online. These videos explain the
initiative process and provide guidance to medical marijuana patients
regarding their medicine.

The MCCFDIA video explaining the initiative process was produced in
cooperation with Maui County government. Now we can be assured that
everyone will be playing by the same correct set of rules. Other
MCCFDIA videos detail the cultivation and preparation of medical grade
marijuana. These videos have become quite popular on the Internet
video-sharing site YouTube, and bring visitors to the MCCFDIA website.

One of the videos was edited to the song "A Peaceful Solution" by
Willie Nelson, and has been featured on the Willie Nelson Peace
Research Institute website. In this video MCCFDIA makes it very clear
that their peaceful solution is to vote back America.

The horrible tragedy of accidental overdose of prescription
pharmaceutical pain medication can be prevented with the safer and in
some cases more effective medical marijuana. The way the law now
stands, medical marijuana patients not only face uncertain supply and
quality by dealing with the black market but also open themselves up
as targets to criminals.

You can help prevent criminal interference with medical marijuana as
well as earn some money. Get involved with MCCFDIA to register voters
and gain signatures on their initiatives. Not only do you win, but
also many needy patients win and so does your community, as criminal
incentives are reduced.

Brian Murphy and his small staff at MCCFDIA are now gearing up for
their second voter registration drive and signature gathering action.
With the questionable legal issues out of the way, MCCFDIA now has an
open field to pursue their goals. Murphy and his staff put themselves
at risk for medical marijuana patients. Medical marijuana patient
advocacy exposes them to both criminal elements and ill-conceived
police activity. You do not have to take these risks. You can help
eliminate these risks for all medical marijuana patients. You can help
medical marijuana patients by signing MCCFDIA initiatives and asking
others to sign them. You can participate in the electoral process by
becoming a registered voter and registering others to vote.

"There was a peace resolution and a peaceful revolution and the
peaceful solution saved America." - Willie Nelson, from his song "A
Peaceful Solution"

Visit http://willienelsonpri.com/, http://www.patientswithouttime.com,
or http://www.mccfdia.com/