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Vietnam Veteran Goes On Trial In First MM Case!
Posted by FoM on May 18, 1999 at 06:51:07 PT
Source: Marijuana News
Jury selection begins today in a case so contentious that defense attorneys have twice asked for U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell to recuse himself. 
[Burrell gained notoriety as the judge who presided over the prosecution of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.] During the last pretrial hearing, Burrell ordered U.S. Marshall’s to forcibly remove defense counsel from the podium. Defendant B.E. Smith is charged with cultivation of marijuana in violation of federal law. Smith, a Vietnam veteran who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, treats his anxiety with medical marijuana under his doctor’s orders. In June 1997, he planted a small medical marijuana garden on land he leased in the backwoods of Trinity County California. Smith, an outspoken advocate of medical marijuana notified state and local authorities and appeared on national television before planting his garden. Click the above link to read the whole article!
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