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US CA: Medical-Marijuana Advocate Peter McWilliams Dies At 50
ccguide Saturday 17 Jun 2000 Pubdate: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) Copyright: 2000 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Contact: Address: P.O. Box 3080, Honolulu, Hawaii 96802 Fax: (808) 523-8509 Feedback: http://starbulletin.com/forms/letterform.html Website: http://www.starbulletin.com/ Author: Dan Whitcomb Related: Peter's websites: http://www.petertrial.com http://www.mcwilliams.com http://www.marijuanamagazine.com http://www.growmedicine.com Also: 20/20 has taken down it's page on John Stossel's Give Me a Break on Peter, but the video is now online at: http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/news_mcwilliams.html MEDICAL-MARIJUANA ADVOCATE PETER MCWILLIAMS DIES AT 50 A Best-Selling Author, He Championed The Right To Heal Yourself Without Government Intervention LOS ANGELES - Bestselling self-help book author and medical marijuana advocate Peter McWilliams has died at his Los Angeles home as he was awaiting sentencing on federal charges of growing the drug for sale, friends said today. He was 50. McWilliams, author of ``How to Survive the Loss of Love'' and the ``Life 101'' series of self-help books, was found dead in his bathroom on Wednesday, the friends said. No cause of death was listed but he suffered from AIDS and Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 15 and faced five years in federal prison. The wheelchair-bound McWilliams, who admitted cultivating marijuana for sale in a 1999 plea agreement with federal prosecutors, gave a nationally televised speech at the 1998 Libertarian National Convention. ``Peter McWilliams was a true hero who fought and ultimately gave his life for what he believed in: The right to heal oneself without government interference,'' said California Libertarian party chairman Mark Hinkle said. McWilliams and his co-defendant, 29-year-old Todd McCormick, pleaded guilty after a judge ruled that they could not use medical necessity as a defense. Prosecutors said that the two men were growing the drug for profit and said McWilliams once said he hoped to become the Bill Gates of marijuana growing. McCormick, who was arrested in 1997 after drug agents found more than 4,000 marijuana plants growing at his rented home in the exclusive Los Angeles enclave of Bel-Air, was sentenced in March to five years in federal prison. He published the best-selling ``Surviving the Loss of Love'' in 1971, followed by ``The Personal Computer Book'' and a series of self-help books titled ``Life 101.'' - --- MAP posted-by: Derek
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