PROTESTERS DOUG MCVAY AND CHARLES THOMAS ARE ARRESTED FOR HANDCUFFING THEMSELVES TO WHITE HOUSE FENCE, 2002-09-23...

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 HK/GN