Subject: MJ Fed 1st amendment suit Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:57:59 -0500 To: lpny_discussion From: Bob Armstrong >From : Ethan Nadelmann : The Alliance and Drug Policy Groups Sue Government Over= Censorship http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/02_18_04istook.cfm ( The banned ad := http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/transit_ad_04.pdf ) >=A0Congress recently passed a law muzzling our right to speak out= for drug policy >=A0reform. Now, with your help, we are fighting to win back that= right. > >=A0A full house of local and national media turned out at the= National Press Club today >=A0to hear that the Drug Policy Alliance, ACLU, Change the= Climate, and Marijuana >=A0Policy Project are filing a lawsuit against the federal= government and the >=A0Washington, D.C. transit system.. Our lawsuit charges that the= D.C. transit system >=A0rejected an ad by our coalition because of a new federal law,= promoted by >=A0Representative Ernest Istook (R-OK), that suppresses free= speech. The law >=A0prohibits federal funding to any local transit authority that= accepts and displays an >=A0ad criticizing the government's drug policy. --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/02/18 2:50:38 PM