                         SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT
 
          I have heard many people argue that "drugs" are a Constitutional
Right under the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 14th Amendments.  I have been mildly 
surprised that no one has considered the implications inherent in the 
Second Amendment.  Under even the loosest interpretation of the Second
Amendment, it still has been viewed as the inalienable right to protect
oneself from harm and invasion.  For example, 50% of all the people that
have died on this planet died from malaria.  Another 10% died from intestinal
infestations of worms like nematodes, ascarids, and tapeworms.  Until this
century, the only "cure" for intestinal worms was chewing tobacco and the 
only defense from the Anopheles mosquito was a good Havana cigar.  In other
words, tobacco was a life-extending plant because it protected against insect
invasion and insect-borne diseases, clearly a Second Amendment right of 
self-defense.  In this light, the "protection against stress" provided by 
using Cannabis on a recreational basis should also be a Second Amendment right.
Stress is one of the major killers in this country as evidenced by the billions
of dollars made by the "drug companies" manufacturing "anti-stress" medications
like Prozac and Valium.
          If all the other arguments like First Amendment rights of religious
sacrament, Fourth Amendment rights on seizure and 9th Amendment and 14th
Amendment rights are dismissed as "invalid and frivolous", the other 
medical properties for cancer, glaucoma and the 195 other medicinal uses 
dismissed as unnecessary, the non-toxic aspects of the drug dismissed 
because of "abuse potential" (if it doesn't kill ya, it's abuseable), and 
the industrial potential to replace wood pulp, dioxin-laced, sulfuric acid
paper and petroleum oil are dismissed because of the bribes (campaign 
contributions) to our legislators, then use and cultivation of the Cannabis
plant should still be a "right of the people" under the Second Amendment
right of self-protection.  To deny this is to destroy the tattered remnants of
the Constitution and Bill of Rights, an erosion process that began in 1801
when the Supreme Court was allowed to "interpret" the Constitution and Bill of
Rights instead of strictly enforcing them as was the original intent of the
Court.
 
Larry Monaghan
Human Environmental Mandate Proponents
1004 E. Preston St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
BBS: (301) 685-2894
Voice: (301) 5f47-6706
