David Borden is founder and executive director of StoptheDrugWar.org, the Drug Reform Coordination Network. He may be contacted at: borden@drcnet.org. Paul Armentano is the senior policy analyst of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He may be contacted at: paul@norml.org.

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Why Do People the Government Says Don't Exist Keep Writing Us?

Posted September 4, 2007 | 02:00 PM (EST)


According to the federal government, 53-year-old Deborah Palmer (not her real name) doesn't exist. A grandmother and former California corrections officer, Ms. Palmer suffers from chronic spinal pain (the result of a pair of botched back surgeries) and fibromyalgia. Because her body is allergic to opioid medications, she recently began...

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