Peter McWilliams, you will not be forgotten.

Some of us knew your personal warmth and love. Many of us knew you through your best-selling books, or your work for personal freedom. Millions more will feel your impact.

You died a casualty in the war on drugs. The battle was over medical marijuana. Voters in your own home state of California agreed with you that marijuana should be legal for medical purposes. Proposition 215 passed overwhelmingly in 1996, but the federal drug warriors ignored the voters, and your activism made you a target. For helping a friend produce medical marijuana, you were charged as a drug kingpin in federal court.

In the end, you were facing five years in prison, you were bankrupt from legal battles, unable to work, and forbidden to use the medical marijuana you yourself needed to keep down the medication for your AIDS and AIDS-related cancer.

You were awaiting the final sentence from the judge. But you could not wait very long. You could not keep down your medication.

• Fred Foldvary -- I have written a memorial to Peter McWilliams in http://www.progress.org archives.
• Walter Block -- Your life has been inspirational.
• Ron Bailey -- With Peter as one of our heros, Liberty will triumph again as it did in 1776
• Michael B. Everling, Los Angeles -- Thank you, Peter
• W. John Haywood --OP, FL-- -- AIDS, cancer, & tyranny--each disease is terrifying, but you had the strength to fight all 3 at once
• Joe Peden -- Our everlasting thanks for visiting.
• William H. Russell -- Peter was a great advocate for individual Liberty, and he will be greatly missed by all. Norwich,CT
• Michael Hall -- Decatur, GA. You will always be a light of liberty for this world.
• Michael E. Berube -- How many more casualties will we allow in the War on Some Drugs? You lived with honour Sir.
• beth krug (georgia) -- thank you for the books.. they made a difference in my life.
• Troy Zinderman, MD -- May you rest in peace, and know we will keep up the fight til we overcome...
• Sheldon Aubut -- Peter's works are what first turned me onto Libertarian Ideals. He will be greatly missed.
• Jaani Lantela -- Finland
• Robert E. Creager -- Burtonsville, MD Rarely do we see and individual of the caliber of our founding fathers
• Curt Frederick -- We'll miss you and your fight for the rights we have under the Constitution
• Peter McLaughlin -- The name of Peter McWilliams is known to lovers of freedom everywhere (Brisbane, Australia)
• John Page -- I am humbled by the strength you had - You were a true freedom fighter I shall not forget. Bless you
• Patrick El-Azem -- Chelmsford, MA - Remember Peter as we strive for Liberty.
• Clarence Van Abbema -- Finally free - rest in peace dear man.
• Rob Robertson -- Silenced in a court of law, his message sings loud and clear upon his death. Rest in peace, Peter.
• John Peterson -- Sorry to hear about the great loss Chapel Hill, NC
• Budd & Catt Moss -- Billions to stop coca farmers (or a war) in Colombia, but no medical marijuana here?
• Shawn .Mackey -- A loss of one who was not afraid to use the Freedom of Speech. E.St.Louis,IL
• Erik T. Lundberg --
• Troy Osborn -- PA - Valiant one, your spirit lives, leading us to victory against those who would oppress us all!
• Apple of AA Deprogramming -- Thank you for your work on mind control. May your soul find peace.
• jim thompson -- edinburgh scotland Peter I recntly heard about your oppression. thanks for fighting for us
• Robert A. Steinegger, Portland, OR -- I am renewing my memberships in the MPP and the DPF in your honor. God bless you, sir.
• mark lambert -- It takes a lot of courage to stand out from the crowd - but Peter had it. From RIP.
• John David Galt -- Thank you for having the courage to write a great work of common sense.
• Michael Drum -- You helped open my eyes Thank you
• Ville Hakulinen -- Rest in peace, good man
• John I of Freedonia -- His death was a grave injustice. On my life, there will be a new nation to end this insanity.
• Victor Welch -- Charleston, SC Liberty, truth and I have lost a best friend.
• Frank Ragoczy -- Peter, deep thanks for your kind help and encouragement; I will carry the torch you gave me
• Rocky Frisco -- Peter, your wisdom and courage will live on long after they and their folly are faded and forgotten.
• Anonymous -- A great warrior lost in the battle for freedom.
• Nancy Millionie, chair, Baltimore LP -- Thank you Peter... we love you, and will continue the battle with you in mind.
• David J. Linden -- Conroe, TX
• Karen Helen Szatkowski -- How sad that he really is "forgotten" except by we few! Ventura, CA
• Lorena Dinger -- Seattle, WA -- From the time I was first exposed to his writing, Peter has always been an influence and inspiration
• Nick Ru -- The War on Drugs is the war of the government against the people.
• Tom Verkuilen, Los Angeles CA -- Requiescat in pace.
• NoLTiC -- New York, NY
• Clarence Gardner -- You leave a wonderful legacy in "Ain't Nobody's Business". Thank you.
• Jay Young -- Your courage, dignity, and humanity will never be forgotten.
• Niki Raapana -- Seattle. My daughter and I mourn your passing as if you were a brother. Live eternally in peace.
• Max Marshall -- Tucson, Here's to ya man
• Michael Zuvanich -- El Paso, Texas - Read William F. Buckley's memorial column
• Maurice E. and Gail E. Hebert -- Well done, soldier. Now sleep in peace.
• Kerry Gill Daniel -- Wilder, KY Who and whatever caused your death deserve capital punishment.
• anton sherwood -- california
• Will Murphy -- Saddened and outraged by your death
• Craig Hunt -- Your book has helped me in my own struggle for freedom, and I've passed it on to others.
• Jeff Stewart, Seattle WA -- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." -Emerson
• Brandon Wolf -- This is so incredibly sad and tragic, and something that didn't need to happen!
• RR McGregor -- He was wounded and left on the southwestern plains
• Garland Clark -- Florida
• brad brakey -- Such a simple message and yet so incredibly difficult to understand by those who would benefit most
• Bill Long -- "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." It wasm
• Ronald Gladstone, DVM -- Atlanta, GA
• Paul Blumstein -- I'll miss you & never forget you. Your death will not be in vain!
• Scott Baron -- A martyr among us in an age of ever eroding freedom and liberty...rest in peace.
• Joe --
• David Barco -- He will be remembered for the hero that he was
• Jim Billingsley -- You fought to the end, defending one of God's greatest gifts - liberty! We must now carry the torch
• Larry Schwab -- Chicago, IL
• Dallas C. Kennedy -- Gainesville, Florida
• Bill St. Clair -- New Lebanon, NY - May we all learn your peaceful strength.
• Jeff Christen-Mitchell -- Cannabem Liberemus - May the goddess bless you, Peter
• Geoffrey Allen -- Plymouth, MI
• Wright H. Huntley -- Condolences from Fremont CA. He was a true hero.
• John Riggs -- Virginia
• Mike Davidson -- (Ottawa): God speed
• Bob Lidral -- Marlborough, MA
• Joshua Katz -- Long Beach, NY
• August Akron -- another death by government
• Shimone Samuel -- San Francisco California - You fought the good fight. You will not be forgotten.
• Robert Severn -- Freedom isn't free - Thank you
• Carolyn Dane -- White Salmon, WA
• Mike Livshutz - IL -- Sorry to see you go.
• Robert A. Moore -- I didn't know Peter, but he fills the bill when it comes to true heroes.
• Don Wood (CA) -- No more needless suffering!!
• Douglas R. Mailly, M.D. -- Nutley, N.J.
• Ryan Arts -- Ayn Rand would be proud of you Peter. May you rest in peace.
• Carol Arendt-St. Louis -- You died in your fight for our freedom. I hope we're all as strong as you.
• Dennis Foley -- Thank you, Peter -- for your books and for your life.
• Mike DiBaggio -- Mahanoy City, PA
• Crystal L. Lallier -- Peter's work was one of the first that enlightened me to what Freedom genuinely means. Thank you.
• Greg Sloan St louis Mo -- Your ideas changed my life. You will be missed
• Terry Johnson -- Freedom for all forever!!!!!
• Allen A. Bauer from Ypsilanti, Michigan -- I never met Peter, but he will always be one of my hero's, a true freedom fighter.
• Somerled Sinclair -- The ideas and principles by which you lived, and ultimately died,-life, liberty and property-
• Dennis-Michigan -- You shall not have died in vain!
• Robert T McQuaid -- Let every man be the master of his own body.
• Joelle Burdette, Mass. -- More than just a martyr. More than just a spokesperson for freedom. Missed,but not forgotten.
• Carlo Lottieri -- the insane drug war is a war against us: you has been a victim
• bill rogers -- central NY state; I became aware of Peter McWilliams because of a small town justice, in town court
• Wilfred Tinney -- Let us inherit from this nobel patriot the courage to slay the tyranny that felled him.
• Sophie (G.R. Michigan) -- A man with the intellectual integrity to try and change society, not just live in it, is rare.
• Michael Kerner -- Lenexa, KS
• Jens Eriksson -- Sweden
• Matt Hays -- Give me Liberty, or give me Death! There are no other options.
• Richard D. Fuerle -- The heros are the few who have the courage to stand and fight, as Peter McWilliams did.
• Robert A. Pearson -- He fought the good fight.
• Lee Murach; LP Ventura County, CA -- Tell Tom Jefferson we said "Hey!"
• J.H., Finland -- Your book makes sense. Now it's you're time to rest, we'll continue your work. Peace.
• Darrin Bragg, FL -- Too bad we don't have more people like you - the long road to freedom would be made much shorter.
• Miguel Becher -- Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Keith Quarles -- New Jersey -- He paid the price for Liberty denied. Let us not rest until Liberty is restored.
• Chris Davis -- Grand Rapids, Michigan--Now it's our business to stop this insanity, Thanks, Peter
• Ronald N. Roy -- Berlin NH
• Helen Hubbard -- It is time for Auld Laud songs on Auld Laud pipes
• FreeAmerica, E.A.Anderson -- Your spirit lives on and your words fill our hearts!
• Bridget -- (Jonesboro, Ark). Thanks for doing what we all should spend more time doing!
• Daniel Tang (California, USA) -- Your gentle prescence will be missed, but your efforts shall not be in vain. Rest ye kind soul.
• Dorothy M., Central NY -- I met you through reading your books and through them you will live as long as people can read.
• Fred Aydelote -- Pennsylvania Too much government was hazardous to your health. We'll miss you Peter
• Norman R. Coon -- Peter stood up for what he believed. It cost him his life. we all need his strength and courage.
• Robert Carreira -- Seoul, Korea
• David Dylan -- Amsterdam, .nl
• jim thompson -- edinburgh, scotland
• Richard Blauvelt -- All libertarians grieve your death, yet we are strengthened by your courage.
• Mikko Grönroos -- Helsinki, Finland - Sometimes I love when others follow no matter what.
• Dan Hester -- CA- Your influence on me has been huge. A hero to freedom, and to me, personally. RIP.
• David Morgan -- It's everybody's business if your GOVERNMENT kills you. --Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Jen Andrade -- Los Angeles
• Ronald Orville Holmstrom -- Deeply saddened in Alaska.
• D.Pateras -- Rest in peace. You've earned that by the couargeosu & loving example you gave.
• Victor Welch --
• Jon Riegel -- 1 more than has been killed by pot
• James M. Ray -- We've shown great restraint up to now, in the government's willful ignorance of the Ninth Amendment.
• Wendy -- South Africa - I am impressed by his approach to life and the stand he took on medical marijuana
• Jim Long -- Goodbye warrior. You are missed.
• Nancy Millionie -- I met him 2 yrs ago as a staff member at Nat. Con. in D.C. Even then he was soooo ill.
• Robert C. Kiser, DO -- "Was nobody's business if you did." May you haunt your persecutors with the memory of their actions.
• Patt O'Neill, Palm Springs CA -- This brings it home -- the war on drugs is really a war on people
• Patricia Michaud -- He died a sacrificial lamb to the tyranny of an oppressive government, but, I hope, not in vain.
• Thomas Boehm -- Peter was an inspiration to all of us in the fight against state tyranny
• jerry -- ACCEPT AND CHERISH ALL WHO LIVE ON THIS PLANET
• Allan Lasley - San Antonio, Tx - -- A good man gone to soon.
• Richard Allen Vinson -- Peter's inspirational spirit will always be among us.
• Thomas Dunbar -- Remember the Alamo, remember the Maine, remember Mc Williams
• Jeffrey K. Geiger -- Newport, OR - Peter McWilliams, you were a warrior 4 freedom, a booster 4 the human spirit. Thanks!
• phdnthc --
• Neal Weidenhofer -- Very apt name for the site.
• Louis Jones -- San Diego CA
• M. Scratch -- May you find the peace that moral busibodies would not permit you in life.
• brian j. haag -- chicago
• Jared Hansen, Eureka, IL -- Though we never met, I thought of Peter as a friend... I won't forget. He will be missed.
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• RR McGregor -- He went to his God like a soldier.
• William Carr -- The Human Race needs its heroes. Know that one day averyone will know that your fight was right.
• Matt McCally/Seattle, WA -- You were that rarest of things - a Libertarian with a sense of humor.
• William J. Clinton -- You inhaled for me -- way to go, man!
• Stacy Tessier -- You opened my eyes to many things out there... Thanks... and yes, you are a casualty
• Fred Freshwater -- You've earned your eternal rest (Pittsburgh, Pa)
• Tom Glass -- He died of an overdose of government.
• Charles A. Burris (anarchteacher@yahoo.com) -- Tulsa, OK : Thank you Peter for your valiant courage, gentle humor, and adherence to principle.
• Lisa --
• William Cole -- Chattanooga, TN -- You were a patriot and a man of honor. You will not be forgotten
• Frances Zepeda -- A good person indeed he was, and i deffinately won't forget what he tried to do for everyone.
• Tom Snipes -- Peter, I want to apologize for us "libertarians" who stood by and let them do to you what they did.
• Mike Lee -- Talking tolerance and peace is one thing;living it another.You forgave them;to honor you,I must too
• Heather Chapman -- I didn't know you, but I admire you. Thank you for standing up for our freedoms. Rest in peace.
• Monart Pon -- He was an uncommon common man
• buddy -- Gen Jitsu wa Kibishii.
• Kane MacAniff -- Doylestown,PA Through his writing/activism, he inspired me to take stands and make my opinion known.
• Diane Fallon -- Peter was a class act and his absence will be sorely missed in the publishing world.
• Dick Shaw -- Memphis, TN - Murdered by Government
• G.N.Unger -- Another cool Irish guy bites it. Bring on the neo-Nuremberg trials.
• David Carlton Heiret -- Olympia, Washington -- You had it right, Peter.
• George Colombo -- Winter Springs, FL
• Tim Castleman -- Mesa, Arizona - We must stop this madness!
• Jeff G -- NC Another example of the catastrophe the war on drugs has brought to our society.
• James Fulford, Toronto -- Peter must have been more prepared for death , and less deserving of it than anyone I know.
• watching eye -- Why?
• Brian Connally -- I only wish others could see the wisdom and have his courage to stand against the opposing forces.
• A.R.Turner -- Thank you for your words.
• Mary -- You did not go gentle into that good night and for that I am grateful. I'll never forget you.
• Mary Buck -- San Diego, CA
• George Berger -- Peter was a terrific writer and speaker. May his senseless death help end this senseless war.
• kenan g white -- amarillo tx
• Fred Johnson -- What a waste. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force
• Adrian Suarez -- peace
• anonymous -- Buy guns NOW. Stockpile ammo NOW.
• Bruce Sommer -- San Jose, CA, USA -- The books he wrote contributed greatly to what I am today.
• Stewart Ogilby -- AVE ATQUE VALE PETER! from bigeye.com
• David Green -- Will the War on Drugs eventually disembowel the Bill of Rights?
• Mary Ellen Sullivan -- NewCastle, Utah
• Matt Luckett -- St. Louis
• Steve Pilchman -- You shouldn't have to be sick to enjoy marijuana. End prosecution of victimless crimes now!
• Michael R. Allen -- St. Louis, Missouri: We shall no go gently into the good night, and your example emboldens us all.
• Laura W. Haywood -- I wish I'd known him.
• Louis H. Elwell, III -- Peter's seminal book had a tremendous influence on my thinking; his death on my actions.
• Bob 'rab' Bickford -- Thank you for your great gifts; I hope those responsible for your death get the justice they deserve
• Joe Zychik -- Thank you for being one of the few who stood up for freedom.
• John A. Pugsley -- Magnificent man. I wish I could be as courageous. I wish I could have been such a hero.

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