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Message from the wife of former marijuana prisoner BE Smith:

The Bill & Peggy Survival Fund

Bill and Peggy Riddick who have been sentenced for growing medical marijuana for the San Francisco Cannabis Club in 1997.

Peggy will be 70 this year and on May 13, 2002, has to turn herself in to Dublin's Federal Prison Camp. Her Husband Bill at the same date, will have to turn himself into a Federal Prison Camp in Sheridan, Oregon. Their sentence is for 30 months. The Riddicks had their home confiscated for the medical plants in a shed on their property. They have gone through five long years with the Federal Court System. Now, at an even older age and with health problems, they are facing 2 1\2 years apart, without even being able to communicate with one another, and without a home to come home to. We would like to help them make it through this time, and try and give them some hope in coming home.

So we have established the Bill & Peggy Fund.
We are also going to be selling tickets for nice things, and trying to get information about Bill& Peggy out to the public. As soon as we have the address & prison number they will have we will send it out to everyone, so they can get letters of encouragement, love and hope. We are hoping fervently to be able to raise enough money to either re-buy their home, or provide them with something else. Also, they have been told their Social Security will stop when they go into prison and they will need money for personal items in prison.

Bill & Peggy are two of the most loving, giving, people I have ever met. They have graced our lives immensely. They have faithfully supported those who have been or are being prosecuted by the state and federal government for medical marijuana. It is people like Bill & Peggy who have and will help change the government's and the people's attitude about medical marijuana. They didn't intend to be martyrs for the "cause" when they did this. They just believed medical marijuana was something sick people should have the right to use, and decided to work with Dennis Peron on it.

It has taken a heavy toll on their lives. They both have serious health problems. Please help us by rallying behind these two people. The Bill & Peggy Fund has been set up so you can send a check or money order and make it out to: The Bill & Peggy Survival Fund. The Address would go like this:
The Bill & Peggy Survival Fund
PO Box 4012
Yankee Hill, California, 95965

You don't need to put more on the check than simply that The Bill & Peggy Survival Fund, and it will be deposited in a special account set up for them. Two people will be on the account, to send Bill & Peggy money, or what ever their special needs might be.There will be a check and balance on the money. And an open accounting kept with Bill & Peggy on the money that comes in.
If you have any questions please feel free to write or call me, Mary
Smith, at 530-629-4356.
My mailing address is: PO Box 132, Salyer, California, 95563
God Bless and Thanks