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Day of Protest - Washington, D.C. | |
 | U.S. Park Police officers arrest Doug McVay with Common Sense for Drug Policy (C, partially obscured) and Charles Thomas (seated right), executive director of Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform, for handcuffing themselves to the White House fence, September 23, 2002. The pair were protesting against the U.S. government's arrest and prosecution of patients who use marijuana for medical reasons and their providers. McVay and Thomas are calling for U.S. President Bush to pardon Byron Epis who was convicted, and will soon be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of ten years in a federal prison, for growing marijuana to treat his back pain and for providing it to other seriously ill people. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang - Sep 23 2:04 PM ET |
 | U.S. Park Police officers arrest Charles Thomas, executive director of Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform, for handcuffing himself to the White House fence on September 23, 2002, in protest of the U.S. government's arrest and prosecution of medical marijuana patients and providers. Thomas and others were calling for U.S. President Bush to pardon Byron Epis who was convicted and will soon be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of ten years in federal prison for growing medical marijuana for his back pain and to providing it to other seriously ill people. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang - Sep 23 1:45 PM ET |
 | Doug McVay (R), with Common Sense for Drug Policy, and Charles Thomas, executive director of Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform, handcuff themselves to the White House fence September 23, 2002. The pair were protesting against the U.S. government's arrest and prosecution of patients who use marijuana for medical reasons and their providers. McVay and Thomas are calling for U.S. President Bush to pardon Byron Epis who was convicted and will soon be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of ten years in federal prison, for growing medical marijuana for his back pain, and to providing it to other seriously ill people. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang - Sep 23 1:41 PM ET |
More pictures of the protestLarge format picturePhotographer Jeremy Bigwood has a set of 122 photos from the White House medical marijuana demonstration on line. | |
