MrFixit
June 18th, 2007, 11:16 AM
Government Shows No Compassion for Medical Pot Consumption
By Patrick McCartney (http://www.alternet.org/authors/8422/) and Martin A. Lee (http://www.alternet.org/authors/1711/), AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/). Posted June 16, 2007 (http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date%5BF%5D=06&date%5BY%5D=2007&date%5Bd%5D=16&act=Go/).
More than ten years after California's Compassionate Use Act was passed by voters, state and local officials are still collaborating with federal law enforcement to undermine it.
On the morning of January 13, 2004, Tehama County prosecutor Lynn Strom unexpectedly announced that the state of California was dropping charges against Cynthia Blake and David Davidson for possessing and growing cannabis with the intent to distribute. While the two medical marijuana patients waited in the courtroom, Strom and the defense attorneys disappeared inside the judge's chambers to discuss the motion to dismiss. Moments later, more than a dozen sheriff's deputies pounced on the hapless couple, handcuffed them, and shoved them into an unmarked police car waiting outside the courthouse in the Sacramento Valley town of Corning. They were already en route to jail in Sacramento when Strom informed their lawyers that the state was bowing out because the Feds were taking over the case.
http://www.alternet.org/story/54183/
By Patrick McCartney (http://www.alternet.org/authors/8422/) and Martin A. Lee (http://www.alternet.org/authors/1711/), AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/). Posted June 16, 2007 (http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date%5BF%5D=06&date%5BY%5D=2007&date%5Bd%5D=16&act=Go/).
More than ten years after California's Compassionate Use Act was passed by voters, state and local officials are still collaborating with federal law enforcement to undermine it.
On the morning of January 13, 2004, Tehama County prosecutor Lynn Strom unexpectedly announced that the state of California was dropping charges against Cynthia Blake and David Davidson for possessing and growing cannabis with the intent to distribute. While the two medical marijuana patients waited in the courtroom, Strom and the defense attorneys disappeared inside the judge's chambers to discuss the motion to dismiss. Moments later, more than a dozen sheriff's deputies pounced on the hapless couple, handcuffed them, and shoved them into an unmarked police car waiting outside the courthouse in the Sacramento Valley town of Corning. They were already en route to jail in Sacramento when Strom informed their lawyers that the state was bowing out because the Feds were taking over the case.
http://www.alternet.org/story/54183/