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Don Fiedler departs the planet.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  In 1990, I took out a subscription to High Times  magazine in protest over a federal prosecutor's subpoenaing the magazine's advertiser records -- as reported by Index on Censorship -- in an apparent effort to clamp down on hydroponic sellers and customers, and various other suspected marijuana-related vendors.  I wrote to then-attorney general Dick Thornburgh about my protest, and cc'd it to High Times; I received a reply from neither.  Shortly thereafter, I saw an article about the National Organization for the Reform of marijuana laws, including a big picture of its then-Executive Director Donald Fiedler. I then met Don in the flesh at the April 1990 Earth Day in Washington, DC, where, among other things, he was showing people items made of hemp...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 01, 2008 (boomark / email).