cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Advocate Totes Drug to Jail Marijuana Advocate Totes Drug to Jail Posted by FoM on October 13, 2001 at 20:04:19 PT By Rod Thompson Source: Star-Bulletin Big Island medical marijuana advocate and non-partisan gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Adler said he took his marijuana to jail with him last weekend.Adler was arrested Oct. 5 after he failed to appear at a court conference to prepare for his scheduled Dec. 3 trial on charges he possessed 55 marijuana plants in 1999. Adler said he didn't have a lawyer, so he didn't know about the conference. The advocate said that when police arrived at his home to arrest him, he asked his wife, Nuan, to bring him his pipe, lighter, marijuana, and state medical marijuana registry card. Police waited until he had those items, then took him to jail, he said.At the jail, police took the items away, leaving him with no medical marijuana, he said, adding that the marijuana was noted among his possessions and returned to him when he left jail Monday.Police declined to comment to the Star-Bulletin on what possessions Adler had.In jail, Adler said he asked police to call his wife to bring him legal Marinol pills, containing synthetic THC, the active substance in marijuana. Adler said he has a prescription for the pills to treat his asthma.Police improperly relayed the message, so his wife brought real marijuana instead, he said. When she showed up with it, police arrested and charged her for possession, then released her.On Monday, Judge Greg Nakamura accepted Adler's explanation that he didn't know about the pretrial conference and released him. Adler said he kept his Prisoner Personal Property Receipt filled out by police which includes the notation, "Film canister containing marijuana." After getting out of jail, he had the document laminated, he said.Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI)Author: Rod ThompsonPublished: Saturday, October 13, 2001 Copyright: 2001 Honolulu Star-BulletinContact: letters starbulletin.comWebsite: http://www.starbulletin.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Hawaii Medical Marijuana Institutehttp://www.medijuana.com/Adler Faces New Marijuana Charges http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10289.shtmlAdler Indicted on Eight Drug Charges http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10283.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #4 posted by FoM on October 14, 2001 at 09:21:00 PT Dan I heard him say that and it made me very angry too. Why did he dump on the drug war like it isn't important? [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by lookinside on October 14, 2001 at 08:19:19 PT: frustrating... i agree...all of them have the corporate money ax to grind...honesty in journalism is gone...i wrote a letter to the sacramento bee when i dropped it, accusing it of bias and blacking out the news...apparently i was correct...at least they made no effort to deny it... [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Silent_Observer on October 14, 2001 at 06:38:28 PT Dan.. There are no independent thinkers/speakers on TV any more...period. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Dan B on October 14, 2001 at 01:55:18 PT: Off Topic: Bill Maher I have posted below a comment Bill Maher made last Thursday about 2/3 of the way into his show (this is word for word from the transcript):Bill: Let me quickly follow up on something you said about our intelligence agencies. I think everyone is pointing the finger at them, and of course, they deserve some of the blame. But you know what, I think America has not dealt with our collective guilt about this. We all knew it was coming, the brake light went on in the car, we just kept driving. The media should have made this something that interested people. Congress should've listened. Warren -- begged them, begged them to pay attention. The presidents, from the first Bush on, should've used the bully pulpit. And people should've done something. But we didn't want to stop picking Internet stocks. So it's not just -- and I'll say mea culpa. I was screaming about the drug war for years, and I should've been more on this. So we're all guilty. And I feel it, too. (emphasis mine)Hold the presses! It appears that Bill has outright betrayed the drug policy reform movement by saying that all of the time he spent talking about the injustices of the drug war was ill-spent--that he should have focused all of his energies on terrorists outside the country rather than focusing on the terrorism that occurs daily in this country in the name of fighting a "war on drugs." Bill Maher must not have a clue about his audience base. Is he unaware that a huge part of his audience consists of those who want to see a change in drug policy? Doesn't he get it that the people who hollered and screamed about his remarks on September 17th are not typical members of his viewing audience, and that people who want to change drug policies are? Has he become such a corporate a$$kisser that he feels it is necessary to alienate his actual audience in order to placate the censorship brigade?I, for one, am fed up with Bill Maher's cowering to his oppressive handlers at ABC. On September 17th, opponents to free speech, in effect, shot off his balls. Now more than ever, he needs to re-grow a pair.Dan B [ Post Comment ] Post Comment