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Judge OKs Order
Posted by CN Staff on December 21, 2002 at 10:45:30 PT
By David Schwartz, Staff Writer
Source: Daily Press 
Victorville — A judge ordered Friday that the Sheriff’s Department not destroy marijuana that was seized during a raid on the home of two medical marijuana users.Gary Barrett, 34, and Anna Barrett, 31, had their garden of 47 large plants and dozens of smaller plants seized during an October raid. Superior Court Judge Stephen Ashworth quickly agreed to order the Sheriff’s Department to not destroy the seized marijuana plants.
The Barretts’ attorney, Daniel B. Halpern, argued that the Barretts’ marijuana growing equipment has been destroyed in the past, before the prior cases went to trial.“What kind of evidence are we talking about?” Ashworth asked. “Grow lamps?”“Marijuana,” Halpern answered.“Marijuana itself,” Ashworth responded.Eventually the judge allowed Halpern to serve San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department with orders not to destroy the plants.This isn’t the first conflict the Barretts have had over growing marijuana for what they say are medical conditions. Gary Barrett said he uses marijuana to treat his Crohn’s disease, a digestive tract disorder, and also said marijuana helped him kick a heroin habit. Anna Barrett said she uses pot to treat chronic pain she has suffered since a five-story fall in 1995.Both have doctor’s recommendations to use marijuana for medical purposes.They were allowed to grow 34 adult flowering plants not to exceed 7.1 pounds, the Barretts said.The plants that were seized, they said, were within the court-ordered limits. Some of the plants were dead; some were saplings; and some were not yet ready to be harvested.The couple faces trial for cultivation of marijuana, said Deputy District Attorney James Hosking, who is with the marijuana suppression unit.Hosking said he didn’t oppose the marijuana being preserved. “I oppose it being returned,” Hosking said.San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Det. Robbie Ciolli said part of the evidence is sent to the crime lab for analysis. Usually the rest of the evidence is destroyed. He said the Barretts’ marijuana has not been destroyed.Note: Judge allows attorney to serve Sheriff’s Department with orders to not destroy seized marijuana plants.Source: Daily Press (CA)Author: David Schwartz, Staff WriterPublished: Saturday, December 21, 2002Copyright: 2002 Daily PressContact: smw link.freedom.comWebsite: http://www.vvdailypress.com/Related Articles & Web Sites: Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmPatients, Deputies Left Guessing http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14997.shtmlMedical Marijuana Trial Moves Forward http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14349.shtml
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Comment #14 posted by charmed quark on December 22, 2002 at 18:28:17 PT:
migraine treatment
I have now been using cannabis as my primary migraine treatment for about 2 and a half years. Before that, I used all of the standard preventatives and abortants and still had devastating migraine attacks. Plus, some of the treatments had severe side effects alsmost as bad as the migraines.Cannabis has been wonderful. I now live a near normal life. However, the headaches you refer to are probably intrinsic to cannabis and not the mode of administration. Cannabis has vasodilation effects, which can cause headaches. For this reason, I quit using cannabis to treat acute migraine attacks. It relieved the symptoms most of the time, but paradoxically left me with "cannabis headaches". Instead, I find small amounts of cannabis on a regular basis as a preventative is a superior approach. The small amounts mean I don't have to get "high" (not that there is anything wrong with that, but it gets old when you have to dose yourself frequently) and I don't get the cannabis headaches. It's been a fantastic preventative for me. Two doses a week are enough. Much, much better than any prescribed medication I've ever tried.I'd like to try Marinol to see if this also works.Anyway, I look forward to the day I can live both a medically normal life and one where I don't have to be a criminal.-Pete
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on December 22, 2002 at 11:36:52 PT
Small Article from NYT: Going to Pot
By William SafirePublished: December 22, 2002Is America Going to Pot?'' asked Time magazine on its cover recently. The article was about the battle over legalizing marijuana, and the headline was wordplay on the familiar expression going to pot (synonymous with ''going to hell in a handbasket''), which the headline writer tied into the slang term for the hemp plant. Scholarly potheads know the derivation of pot, the controlled psychoactive substance: the word is rooted in the Mexican Spanish potiguaya, which are marijuana leaves after their pods have been removed. The word may be derived from potacion de guaya, a potation (from the Latin potere, ''to drink'') that causes guaya, ''lamentation'' in Latin American Spanish. Apparently, this was ''the wine of grief'' in which marijuana buds were steeped. (The word marijuana could come from Mariguana, one of the Bahamian islands, or from a seductive Maria Juana -- Mary Jane. It's a mystery.) The earliest citation for pot in its drug sense can be found in Chester Himes's ''Black on Black,'' a collection of stories and essays published in 1973, in a story written in 1938: ''She made him smoke pot, and when he got jagged, she put him out on the street.'' (Jagged is an 18th-century term for ''drunk,'' or -- you guessed it -- potted. For nonalcoholic intoxication, we now say stoned or zoinked or wrecked.) But the slang term pot may have been influenced by the aforementioned pod: in his 1959 novel, ''Naked Lunch,'' William Burroughs derided ''a square wants to come on hip. . . . Talks about 'pod' and smokes it now and then.'' All clear? (Actually, in reading this, you should be getting a little woozy.) Now to the part stimulated by Time's headline: the origin of the much earlier going to pot, which is by no means the road to marijuana. ''The riche & welthie of his subjectes,'' went the 1542 translation of Erasmus's Apophthegmes, ''went dayly to the potte, & wer chopped up.'' (I report the archaic spelling, which triggers the question: Why did we change the spelling of welthie to wealthy and dayly to daily? And doesn't the ampersand -- ''&'' -- take less space than and? The old guys had it right.) The phrase collector John Ray in 1670 defined to go to pot as ''to perish; to be done for; as by death, bad seasons, pecuniary difficulties and so forth.'' A decade later, the poet John Dryden wrote, ''Then all you heathen wits shall go to pot/For disbelieving of a Popish plot.'' The cannibalistic origin of the metaphor -- to chop people up into edible portions and stew them in a pot until tender -- disappeared over the centuries. The meaning is now ''to deteriorate; to fall apart; to go to seed.'' Colleen Barrett, president of the profitable, no-frills Southwest Airlines (bring your own lunch), told reporters recently, ''A nongrowing company is the quickest way to have morale go to pot.'' What do you take at executives of nongrowing companies? Our final entry in the ubiquitous pot derby: a potshot. The Associated Press reporter covering the good-humored Al Smith dinner in New York two months ago reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell, before turning serious, ''took several more potshots at Saddam and even poked fun at American politicians.'' Across the country at the same time, The Los Angeles Times, reporting on the trend toward more ''scantily clad women of impossible proportions'' in video games, quoted a responsible industry executive as complaining, ''With the strip-bar stuff, it's just too easy to open up the industry to potshots.'' This comes from taking a shot only for the purpose of filling the pot for a meal, usually at an easy target and with no heed to the rules of sport hunting or the preservation of the head for mounting. It was an elitist derogation of hungry hunters who killed game to put food on the family table. ''Most people took potshots,'' sneered an arbiter of social life in the reign of Queen Anne, ''and would not risk shooting at a bird on the wing.'' So, too, in politics today. 
New York Times
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Comment #12 posted by veggiegardener on December 22, 2002 at 10:17:33 PT:
Dr. Russo
My wife suffered from migraines monthly, or more frequently, before she started using Cannabis for other problems. Frequency of Migraines has dropped to about once a year, now.It works.
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on December 22, 2002 at 08:37:34 PT
Dr. Russo
We are going to tape a special on Ecstasy this afternoon on Discovery Health Channel and send the tape to you. I watched it last night and the part about therapeutic use was very good. I know you can't get the channel and I believe you will want to see it. 
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Comment #10 posted by Patrick on December 22, 2002 at 07:50:36 PT
Dr. Russo
I am about halfway through your writings on Cannabis in the treatment of migraine headaches. Very interesting stuff and thanks for the link!. When you add this to the other overwhelming evidence of the past and current medical use of this plant it seems blatantly obvious that a Schedule 1 classification is such a complete and utter LIE. In fact, reflecting on our bullheaded justices and drug czar's blindness I get a headache from knowing they can't see the benefits that cannabis offers. What is amazing to me is that this beneficial plant was ever exiled in the first place. Outside of the obvious racial motivations for it expulsion I am kinda surprised it was not exploited for profit in 1937 along with cotton and fossil fuels or at the least regulated?
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Comment #9 posted by Ethan Russo MD on December 22, 2002 at 06:37:09 PT:
Cannabis and Migraine
See:http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/hh.pdfandhttp://www.druglibrary.org/crl/pain/Russo%2098%20Migraine_%20Pain.pdf
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Comment #8 posted by greek_philosophizer on December 22, 2002 at 05:02:14 PT:
Hi Dr. Russo - Whats up with migrane research?
Hello Dr. Russo,  I saw on the cannabisMD web site that you were trying
to do a study on the effect of cannabis on Migranes.  On the Usenet newgroup alt.drugs.pot there was someone
who said that because of his migranes that his doctors 
addicted him to some really bad pharmaceutical that really
messed him up.  I suggested cannabis in an eaten form to avoid the 
carbon monoxide - which causes headaches I think.  Can you elaborate on any further research on cannabis
and headaches?            Kindest Regards              ( Call Me )              Poisoned_for_2190_days_(about)
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Comment #7 posted by Ethan Russo MD on December 22, 2002 at 03:32:23 PT:
More Info on Salvia divinorum
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/pdf/salvia_dea.pdf
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on December 21, 2002 at 20:03:34 PT
Off Topic
Hi Everyone, Here's an article on Salvia divinorum. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Merry Christmas!Plant from Mexico has U.S. drug officials on alert:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/dec02/105242.asp
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Comment #5 posted by The GCW on December 21, 2002 at 17:08:10 PT
It can be expensive to keep the cannabis.
That will require professional type care. It becomes a liability, of sorts... to keep good pot is the same condition as when it was stolen.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on December 21, 2002 at 12:44:53 PT
Supreme Court Strikes Workers' Comp. Drug-Testing 
Hi Everyone, My sister sent me this ruling concerning workmen's comp and drug testing in Ohio.Communications Office - Opinions and Case SummariesOpinion: http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/documents/0/2002/2002-Ohio-6717.doc Complete Article: http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Communications_Office/summaries/2002/1218/010642.asp
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Comment #3 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on December 21, 2002 at 11:58:29 PT
Couple clippings
MAPINC: UK Drinkers Face Drug Test as They Enter The Pub:http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n2304/a09.html?999And I really really like this one:
Warnings of 'Super Weed' Just Blowing Smoke
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on December 21, 2002 at 11:32:33 PT
Ad on Internet Leads to Drug Bust
Hi Everyone,I found this article to read but because the name of the person is mentioned I didn't feel I should post it since he doesn't seem to be an activist and probably wouldn't want his name published. http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86%257E10669%257E1066226,00.html
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Comment #1 posted by knox42897 on December 21, 2002 at 11:04:39 PT:
Pot bust, LV Defenders of Medical Marijuana Laws
Hello Friends, I am conducting a quick poll to see how many of my fellow coleges want protest a recent pot bust, please refer to this link http://www.ktnv.com/news/dec02/104878.asp I as a Medical Marijuana Patient in Nevada feel that it is time to be Defenders of Medical Marijuana Laws by order of the People of the United States of America. Specifically, I am prepared to Defend Nevada Revised Statue 453A.310 which states the FACT that a person who is legitimately engaged in or assisting in the medical use of marijuana may, REGARDLESS of whether he holds a registry identification card, raise an affirmative defense to certain criminal charges (such as charges of possession, delivery or production of marijuana.) Please refer to this link http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-453A.htmlbr /> I am recruiting fellow members to become the Defenders of Medical Marijuana Laws. The Defenders of Medical Marijuana Laws should protest this illegal pot seizure. The Defenders of Medical Marijuana also will encourage the city of Las Vegas to yank their officers off the Drug Enforcement Administration task force refer to this link http://cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14408.shtml Further, The Defenders of Medical Marijuana also demand all of the marijuana be given back to qualified medical marijuana patients, all 948 pounds of it. The Defenders of Medical Marijuana insist that police have 30 days to lawfully return all of this marijuana, please refer to this link http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14887.shtml. Until these demands are meet, the Defenders of Medical Marijuana should use all nonviolent civil disobedience necessary to accomplish this goal, please refer to this link http://www.safeaccessnow.org/ Please email me ASAP, if you wish to join, subject title Defenders of Medical Marijuana Laws. 
Pierre
The President Primary Caregivers & Consultants 
Defender of Medical Marijuana by Order of the People of the United States of America 
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