Congressional Candidate Premieres Drug War Documentary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Robert "Bob" Schubring of Troy, Michigan, who is campaigning to unseat Republican drug war promoter Joe Knollenberg from Michigan's 9th Congressional District, announced the premiere of his feature-length documentary on the Drug War, "HIGH", which will be hosted by the Ohio State University chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in Columbus on February 28th, 2006, at 7:30 PM in room 200 of Campbell Hall. Anyone donating at least $5 will be allowed to view the premiere. The proceeds will NOT be a campaign contribution, as they will benefit Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (www.ssdp.org) and a group of chronic pain patients and caregivers, the national Pain Relief Network (www.painreliefnetwork.org).

Bob produced the film at the suggestion of Canfield, Ohio filmmaker John Holowach, who began researching for the film while a high school student under the influence of D.A.R.E. "Few people realize that the first statute criminalizing marijuana was passed in Utah, after a difference of opinion arose in the Mormon Church as to whether this medicinal plant was godly or ungodly. Seeking to avoid a second nasty schism in their church, like the earlier dispute over polygamy, Mormon leaders turned again to the State and asked to have their theological disputes regulated out of existence. The State fulfilled and over-fulfilled, creating opportunities for dangerous new cults in the process," said Schubring.

Mr. Holowach, who wrote, directed, and edited the film, sought interviews from prominent Drug War supporters but was refused the opportunity. Among those who declined to be interviewed were Drug-Free America Foundation founder and Republican fundraiser Mel Sembler, DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, and White House drug czar John Walters. In fact, the closest the filmmakers got to Mr. Walters was Lafayette Park, where a schoolteacher leading a group of students on a tour of the nation's capital volunteered to argue in favor of the Drug War, but provided no authoritative information and merely regurgitated a number of the politically-correct beliefs as are fed to all Americans by the Drug War's leaders.

Mr. Schubring finds it highly disturbing that the entire leadership of the Drug War refuses an open debate of the issues. Last week, the US Supreme Court ruled, in Gonzalez v. Oregon, that the DEA and the Attorney General have no authority to rule into existence "generally-accepted standards of medical practice" and must defer to the Surgeon General. Mr. Schubring is preparing a lawsuit, under the Freedom of Information Act, to compel the DEA Administrator to explain the reasons why that agency investigated or sought to prosecute 17% of the nation's pain care specialists, while maintaining a public posture that pain patients and their caregivers had no reason to fear prosecution. "The DEA Administrator clearly did not seek out any medical expertise in deciding which pain doctors and pain patients to prosecute. If the Administrator is not asking medical experts what drugs pain patients need and why, then the American people deserve to learn just who is advising the DEA to endanger the lives of pain patients by denying them access to pain specialists. If the Administrator and the drug czar only give interviews to pro-Drug War media, that's their right. When they endanger people's lives by ruling who is allowed what kind of health care, they have to account for themselves, even under current law."

To learn more about the film, please visit www.truehigh.com today. For a press kit, please contact Bob Schubring at rschubring@nextel.blackberry.net or call (734)320-3435.