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Pot Bust Lights A Fire Under State Candidate
Marijuana Party founder running for governor
Patricia C. McCarter | Huyntsville Times | 02/23/2006

Loretta Nall smokes pot, and she wants to be your governor.

While speaking to 14 people at Wednesday night's Huntsville Area Libertarian Supper Club, the 31-year-old Alexander City mother of two said smoking marijuana could be considered a sin but not a crime, "and punishing sin should not be the role of the state."

Nall, who is vying for the Libertarian Party's nomination, was arrested for pot possession in 2002, not long after she wrote The Birmingham News a letter to the editor. In it, she encouraged citizens who don't support Alabama's tough marijuana laws to get involved in changing them.

She said police soon got a warrant and raided her home. They said they were tipped by an anonymous phone call and an alleged statement made by her 5-year-old to a DARE officer at school.

"They claim to have found 0.87 of a gram of pot in an envelope, addressed to me, lying on top of my printer," she told the gathering at Shoney's at University Drive and Memorial Parkway.

She was convicted of the misdemeanor charge but won on appeal and is awaiting another trial.

"Thus began my counterattack and what has become a life-consuming, all-out frontal assault on the U.S. drug policy," she said.

Nall is a housewife who has also been a burger flipper, an office manager, an apartment manager, a car salesman and a writer for Cannabis Culture magazine. Those aren't the professions of mainstream gubernatorial candidates - which she thinks makes her perfect for the job.

Even though she is the founder of the U.S. Marijuana Party, she said she doesn't advocate marijuana use.

"I'm pro-sanity," she said. "I advocate an adult's choice to select marijuana or alcohol. Look, the government already takes 48 percent of our paychecks. Is it too much to ask to let us relax the way that we want?

"If I don't care if my neighbor smokes a joint - and I find that most people don't care - why should I pay $12,000 a year to keep someone in prison for doing that?"

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dedbr

is alway's short and to the point. I don't mind my neighbor's if they don't mind me.... Ded

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Pskitzo

I live in Alabama, and though I would definetaly love to see her become out governor, I just don't see it happening. The only thing redder than the state of Alabama are the necks of the majority who live here. With so many conservative republicans around, the chances of Nall getting elected are slim. Damn...I'm moving to Canada...

Tokamak

The only thing redder than the state of Alabama are the necks of the majority who live here.

Hah! Well said! Unfortunately, the red rash of ignorace has spread far beyond the bounds of Alabama. Symptoms include rage, stupidity, zealosy, proselytizing, unwillingness to question authority, propensity to incarcerate, and oily discharge. If you or someone you know is showing signs of redness, seek herbal help immediatly.

Peace.

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Pskitzo

Haha, that was funny as hell man. You nailed it.

 

Mamabudz

Pskitzo and Tokamak --

Are you registered voters?

Who did you vote for in the last election?

Larz

Sounds like signs of pot psychosis to me.

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Tokamak

Mamabudz: Pskitzo and Tokamak --

Are you registered voters?

Who did you vote for in the last election?

If you're talking about the last presidential election, I think I voted for Cobb, or maybe Kucinich. Not that it really mattered all that much, because I live in California, which always goes to the leading democrat. But I voted none the less, casting my vote as a symbolic act of defiance against our two-party system. For the 2003 Recall election, I voted for Camejo. I'm pretty sure that I'm registered Green, and I usually vote that way.

Peace.

THC Fiend

I smoke pot and I want to be your governee!

I'm sure she touched the heart of those people too. Yea man, we can LEGALIZE, all we need is 14 more votes!

I LOVE this word. Ironic how is sounds like Arnold saying it eh?

You could get that published.

Wow, this post is useless...

Then again, this article is leaning toward uselessness also, so I forgive myself.

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