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1997--YEAR IN REVIEW: MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROVISION GOES UP IN SMOKE
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REEFER MADNESS--John Precup, who is confined to a wheelchair with multiple sclerosis, holds the hand of his friend Jean Taddie as he prepares to testify before an Ohio Senate Committee, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1997. Precup is in opposition to Senate Bill 2. which would repeal a provision of Ohio Law which permits the medical use of marijuana.


PRO POT--Dr. Lester Grinspoon, psychiatry professor from the Harvard Medical School, views a slide as he prepares to testify in opposition to Senate Bill 2, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997. Senate Bill 2 would eliminate a provision of Ohio Law permitting the medical use of marijuana.


GOOD LOCATION--John Hartman, president of the Northcoast Chapter of NORML, hands out fliers, in front of a bus stop on High St., in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 11, 1997. The fliers urge voters to fight against Ohio Sentate Bill 2, which would strike the medical use of marijuana from Ohio Law.


JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE--Daniel Asbury rests in his wheelchair after traveling from Oregon, Ohio to the Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, May 30, 1997. Asbury and others in wheelchairs started their journey on Memorial Day to protest the signing of SB 2, which struck the medical marijuana provision from Ohio Law.


SHE'S LEGAL--Elvy Musikka, who suffers from glaucoma and is one of eight people nationally that receives medical marijuana from the U.S. Government, takes her medicine in front of the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, May 30, 1997. Musikka was part of a group that traveled from Oregon, Ohio on Memorial Day to the Statehouse to protest the signing of SB 2, which struck the medical marijuana provision from Ohio Law.

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