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	Peter McWilliams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The same year, Peter McWilliams was diagnosed with both cancer and AIDS and was among the roughly forty percent of terminally ill patients that experience extreme nausea as a side effect of medications used to treat such diseases.
		McWilliams spoke before the Libertarian Party National Convention in 1998 where he came out as a gay man that was diganosed with both cancer and AIDS and thus had a personal stake in the California law legalizing marijuana for medical reaons.
		McWilliams asked supporters to send e-mails and letters to the presiding judge in an effort to allow Mcwilliams to serve his sentence under house arrest, where he could continue writing and have access to medical care.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_McWilliams (1218 words)

	Libertarian Party of California - Release - 20000615 - Peter McWilliams
		"Peter McWilliams was a true hero who fought and ultimately gave his life for what he believed in: the right to heal oneself without government interference," declared Libertarian state chair Mark Hinkle.
		McWilliams was arrested in 1998 and charged with conspiracy to sell marijuana plants that he had been growing to supply cooperatives that serve other medical marijuana patients in California.
		McWilliams was forced to plead guilty after the federal judge presiding over the case refused to allow any mention of Proposition 215, the landmark 1996 California ballot initiative that legalized medical marijuana.
	www.ca.lp.org /rel/2000/20000615-McWilliams.html (428 words)

	LP News October 1998 - Peter McWilliams released from jail
		McWilliams was arrested on July 23, and charged with a conspiracy to grow marijuana plants, which McWilliams said he planned to distribute to sick people under that state's medical marijuana law.
		McWilliams, 48, is the owner of Prelude Press and a multi-million-copy-selling author who has written on subjects as wide-ranging as curing depression, emotional loss, victimless crimes, meditation, and computers.
		McWilliams is probably best known to Libertarians for Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (1993), a scathing attack on the foolishness of arresting people for "consensual crimes." First published in 1993, it was called "highly readable and entertaining" by Hugh Downs.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9810-McWilliams.html (604 words)

	Peter McWilliams - LPedia
		Peter McWilliams (August 5, 1949 - June 14, 2000), was a world renown author of many books, a libertarian activist, and an advocate of full legalization of marijuana.
		Once Peter discovered that marijuana was the most "benign medical substance known to human beings," he decided to dedicate his life in the struggle to legalize medicinal marijuana throughout the country.
		In 1998, McWilliams was arrested for violating the Federal marijuana law.
	www.lpedia.org /index.php/Peter_McWilliams (443 words)

	Peter McWilliams Martyred
		McWilliams is a martyr to the war on drugs and to the tyranny of prohibition.
		McWilliams was forced to plead guilty after the federal judge presiding over the case refused to allow any mention of Proposition 215, the 1996 California ballot initiative that supposedly legalized medical marijuana in that State.
		The death of McWilliams demonstrates that the excuse given by government for drug prohibition, the health and welfare of the people, is a lie.
	www.progress.org /archive/fold147.htm (898 words)

	An American Hero, Peter McWilliams, Is Dead,, by Paul Zimmerman
		Peter's death was not unexpected, but his manner of death is unexcusable.
		Peter lived in California and the people of that state passed Proposition 215 which made it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana and on his doctor's recommendation Peter started using medical marijuana to ease his pain.
		Peter complied with the judge's order because he did not want to risk having his mother and brother lose their homes.
	centre.telemanage.ca /links.nsf/207535c54192dbd585256ab2007cf08f/6789235193fa2d8685256901006c8b8f!OpenDocument (917 words)

	Peter McWilliam's Memorial Page
		McWilliams was killed by the federal government on June 14, 2000.
		No federal agent put a gun to McWilliams' head or beat him up or threw him into the line of fire, but he died at the government's hands, nonetheless, as sure as if he had been locked in a cell and denied food and water.
		Peter was one of the roughly 40% of those patients for whom the anti-viral drugs being used to treat AIDS can cause violent nausea.
	www.freedomtoexhale.com /Peterm.htm (1469 words)

	ASA : Peter McWilliams
		Peter became an outspoken advocate, and he commissioned Todd McCormick, an activist and patient, to write a book on cultivating different strains of medical marijuana for different illnesses.
		Since Peter’s mother's and brother's houses had been put up to secure his bond, a positive drug test would mean that they would lose their homes if cannabis was detected in his urine, thus assuring Peter's compliance with these terms.
		Peter McWilliams died in his home on June 14, 2000 at the age of 50, asphyxiating on his own vomit.
	safeaccessnow.org /article.php?id=1788 (480 words)

	US CA: Analysis: The Murder of Peter McWilliams
		Peter is where they can't hurt him anymore, but his murderers are still at large, and if there is anything that Peter would want, it would be for us to continue to speak the truth to power, to tyranny.
		Peter was a part of the roughly 40% of those patients for whom the anti-viral drugs being used to treat AIDS can cause violent nausea.
		If we are silent on the murder of Peter McWilliams, and all of the others whose suffering and death pass without notice, then we are as guilty as the judge, prosecutors, and politicians, and police who signed the papers that ultimately became a warrant for judicial murder.
	www.petermcwilliams.org /articles/an_indictment_not_an_obituary.html (2243 words)

	Why Was Peter McWIlliams Murdered?
		McWilliams devised a plan to supply marijuana to these buyers' cooperatives that were providing a legal service for their sick and dying customers, at reasonable prices in a pleasant setting.
		In 1998, Peter McWilliams was arrested as the kingpin of this conspiracy to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana.
		McWilliams' death, at the age of 50, occurred on the same day that the governor of Hawaii signed into law a medical-marijuana bill passed by the state legislature, making Hawaii the first state in the United States to authorize the medicinal use of marijuana through the legislature rather than by a vote of the people.
	www.loompanics.com /Articles/WhyWasPeter.html (1972 words)

	The Life and Death of Peter McWilliams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As regular readers of Liberty know, Peter, a world famous author* and a regular contributor to these pages, was diagnosed with AIDS and non-Hodgkins lymphoma in early 1996.
		Peter was an enthusiastic supporter of the new law, both because he believed in maximizing human liberty and because marijuana had saved his life and was, indeed, keeping him alive.
		He relished the chance to defend himself in court: medical marijuana was legal under state law and he believed a spirited defense could both exonerate him and help establish a legal fight to grow marijuana for medical purposes.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v00/n948/a03.html (1272 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McWilliams was a national leader in the battle to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
		Peter McWilliams has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Larry King" (both radio and television), "Donahue," "Sally Jessy Raphael," and, a long time ago, the "Regis Philbin Show" (before Regis met Kathie Lee — probably before Kathie Lee was born).
		Peter has been outspoken about this, writing to protest current drug policy, editing an Internet magazine on the subject, and preparing a book on the medical benefits of marijuana.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/peter-mcwilliams.html (1130 words)

	Freedom Network - williambova.net
		Peter McWilliams is dead, murdered by the feds.
		Peter was a best selling author and his 1996 book Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country (Available thru Amazon) became an instant libertarian classic.
		Unfortunately, soon after Peter's book became a success he was hit with a fatal one-two punch; he was diagnosed with AIDS and cancer.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~wbova/fn/earth/2000_6_04.htm (919 words)

	pot smoker of the month - Peter McWilliams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter had suffered from AIDS and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since 1996, and had used medical marijuana to suppress the nausea that was a common side-effect to the potent medications needed to keep him alive.
		McWilliams, 50, had suffered from AIDS and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since 1996, and had used medical marijuana to suppress the nausea that was a common side-effect to the potent medications needed to keep him alive.
		"Peter McWilliams was a true hero who fought and ultimately gave his life for what he believed in: The right to heal oneself without government interference," said Mark Hinkle, state chair of the California Libertarian Party.
	www.cleartest.com /testinfo/peter_mcwilliams.html (6077 words)

	Other Tributes to Peter McWilliams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter choked to death due to the lack of a proper anti-emetic.
		McWilliams, who was an out-spoken advocate for the medical use of marijuana, was arrested along with Todd McCormick in 1998 in a high-profile case for cultivating marijuana in a Bel Air, CA, mansion.
		That meant that neither McWilliams nor his lawyer could so much as mention his disease, marijuana's usefulness as a medicine, the program under which eight patients were receiving marijuana from the federal government, or Proposition 215, the 1996 California ballot initiative that sanctioned the medical use of marijuana.
	www.lplac.org /other.htm (5585 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Peter McWilliams Passes Away
		Peter was just weeks away from finishing his book on the ordeal he has gone through.
		Peter's death is a terrible tragedy, but we cannot allow it to be in vain.
		Peter is a martyr, and we need to make sure that his name is forever engraved on the public's mind whenever the issue of medical marijuana comes up.Start writing those letters, folks!
	cannabisnews.com /news/thread6069.shtml (4127 words)

	Liberty Round Table: Essays: Peter McWilliams - How Low Can They Go?
		At a time when Peter McWilliams should be celebrating his life with family and friends - his birthday was either yesterday or today - he remains in jail, without a clear idea of what it will take to get him out.
		We mourn the untimely death of Peter McWilliams, 6/17/00.
		Sunni has shared some of her thoughts on Peter's death, and DLT offers an idea for sharing your disgust with the situation with those most directly responsible for his death.
	www.libertyroundtable.org /library/essay.howlow.html (2344 words)

	Peter McWilliams Indicted
		McWilliams allegedly financed the growing operation, which was located at his Laurel Canyon home and at other residential properties that had been leased, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Aenlle-Rocha.
		McWilliams' Century City-based attorney, Harland Braun, said his client is one of the most prominent advocates for the medicinal use of marijuana in the country and is not a criminal.
		McWilliams, a self-publisher whose books include "How to Survive the Loss of a Love" and "How to Heal Depression," describes himself as an AIDS and cancer patient and "outspoken advocate" of medical marijuana use and Proposition 215.
	www.levellers.org /pw_72498.htm (789 words)

	Peter McWilliams, prisoner of the drug war
		"McWilliams is out of prison on the condition that he not smoke marijuana, but it was the marijuana that kept him from vomiting up his medication.
		Reflecting on the judge's refusal to let the jury know that there was understandable reason for McWilliams to believe he was acting legally, I ended a column in this space in November by writing, "So, the fate of Peter McWilliams is in the hands of Judge King.
		Peter was a wry, mythogenic guy, humorous, affectionate, articulate, shrewd, sassy.
	www.november.org /thewall/cases/mcwilliams-p/mcwilliams-p.html (2892 words)

	Peter McWilliams
		And it came to pass that in the early morning of December 17, 1997, federal agents invaded his home and business, and confiscated a wide array of his property (including his computers, one of whose hard disks contained the book he was writing) and arrested him on charges of conspiring to grow marijuana.
		He relished the chance to defend himself in court: medical marijuana was legal under state law and he believed a spirited defense could both exonerate him and help establish a legal right to grow marijuana for medical purposes.
		He agreed to plead guilty, in hopes that any incarceration could be served under house arrest, since sending him to prison, where he would not be able to follow his life-saving regimen, would be tantamount to sentencing him to death.
	www.harrysnews.com /tgPeterMcWilliams.htm (4555 words)

	Peter McWilliams dead [Free Republic]
		Peter McWilliams: I assume that they were looking for [a] drug king pin something or another.
		Peter McWilliams: I was going to be put in jail for ten years, period.
		Peter McWilliams has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King (both radio and television), Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael, and, a long time ago, the Regis Philbin Show (before Regis met Kathie Lee—probably before Kathie Lee was born).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a394a55d33977.htm (10104 words)

	Peter McWilliams' Account
		Peter McWilliams, a patient with AIDS and cancer who shares his story on this website, died on June 18, 2000.
		McWilliams was a best-selling author, noted libertarian, and eloquent advocate for medical marijuana.
		He was arrested on a marijuana charge and denied any use of his medicine as a condition of bail while he awaited trial.
	www.rxmarihuana.com /McWilliams.htm (1686 words)

	Nobody's Business: Supreme Court Defiles Peter McWilliams' Corpse
		The indictment against Peter made much of the fact that as the publisher of Prelude Press, his own publishing company where he employed eighteen people, Peter had given an advance to an author for a book on medical marijuana.
		So what Peter did was perfectly legal in his own state; it just didn’t sit well with some drugfighting hard-liners three thousand miles away in Washington D.C., who decided to dispatch an assault team to an increasingly frail AIDS and cancer patient.
		So Peter was forced to be sick as a dog on most days — much sicker than he would have been if he'd been allowed to smoke marijuana, a plant whose medical benefits are well-documented.
	www.bakelblog.com /nobodys_business/2005/06/supreme_court_d.html (1816 words)

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		Peter was able to live at home for most of past two years as his=20 trial, and the trial of his compatriot, Todd McCormick, slowly=20 progress through the court.
		McWilliams, suffering AIDS and Hodgkins Lymphoma, was facing 5 years in federal prison for helping fund a medical cannabis research garden after the passage of Proposition 215, California's groundbreaking medical marijuana law.
		McWilliams and fellow cancer sufferer Todd McCormick, tested the waters of their newfound medical freedom, and were mercilessly beaten down with the full wrath of the federal government.
	www.crrh.org /hempnews/restore/528.txt (16117 words)

	Archive Of Peter McWilliams' Websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter McWiliams, 50, best selling author, poet, photographer, publisher, libertarian crusader, medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and cancer survivor, was found dead on the floor of his bathroom, apparently having choked to death after vomiting, for want of medical marijuana.
		There will be an autopsy, but whatever the immediate cause of death may have been, he was murdered by the United States Government as surely as if they shot him.
		Over time external links may not work, but anything that was stored on Peter's site should be available.
	www.drugsense.org /mcwilliams (140 words)

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