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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Illinois Senate wants to limit pot talk online
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- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:25:26 +0100
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:14:08 -0700
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Illinois Senate wants to limit pot talk online
Reply-to: declan@well.com
A related article I wrote a year ago:
Senator Feinstein Wants to Ban the Bong
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,14079,00.html
http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1999/4/14pot.asp
Illinois Senate panel considers limiting
online communications about pot
By David Hudson
First Amendment Center
4.14.99
The Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee is
scheduled to hold a hearing this afternoon
on a bill that would criminalize online
communications about marijuana when the
person sending the information knows it will
be used to further illegal activity.
However, some believe the measure, which
unanimously passed the House last month,
will blur the lines between free speech and
illegal activity.
Introduced Feb. 2 by state Rep. Bill
Mitchell, R-Forsyth, the bill provides: "A person
commits
the offense of illegal
transmission of cannabis information by the Internet
when
he or she transmits
information about cannabis by the Internet knowing
that
the information will be
used in furtherance of illegal activity."
[...]
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