cannabisnews.com: Attorney Asks To Dismiss Citations in Med Pot Case Attorney Asks To Dismiss Citations in Med Pot Case Posted by CN Staff on January 23, 2004 at 17:56:51 PT By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Denver -- U.S. Attorney John Suthers asked a federal court Friday to dismiss contempt citations for six officers involved in a clash of state and federal laws regarding the use of marijuana by the sick.The drug task force officers seized a few ounces of marijuana from Don Nord, 57, last October, but Routt County Judge James Garrecht dropped charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia against Nord, who said he suffers from cancer, diabetes and other ailments. Nord has a certificate from the state allowing him to use marijuana under a voter-approved 2000 constitutional amendment that allows the infirm to grow or smoke marijuana with a doctor's recommendation. Garrecht ordered that the marijuana be returned to Nord. However officials with the Drug Enforcement Agency said they had no intention of returning the drug, which is illegal under federal law. Garrecht issued the contempt citations Jan. 7. In arguing to dismiss the citations, Suthers' office wrote that the officers were part of a DEA-sponsored task force and were acting under federal law, under which illegal contraband is never returned to the owner. Three Hayden police officers also received contempt citations, but they were not covered in the motion Friday. Nord's attorney, Kristopher Hammond, said he expected to file an objection to the motion. Hammond said his client is too afraid to resume growing marijuana, even though he has the state certificate. "He would like nothing more than to have his medicine returned," Hammond said. "He's looking out of the next sick poor person who has their medicine stolen and gets confronted with another shell game like we have going on here." Source: Associated Press Published: January 23, 2004 Copyright: 2004 The Associated Press Related Articles:US Attorney To Represent Cop in Pot Case http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18167.shtmlMedical Pot Case Tests Federal Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18127.shtml9 Officers Cited for Contempt in Pot Case http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18109.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #21 posted by FoM on January 24, 2004 at 12:31:33 PT yippierevolutionary Thanks! If that's the trailer I'm not missing anything I want to see. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 24, 2004 at 10:24:00 PT that is interesting EJ I would like to see the original. Pakistan seems very exotic to me. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by E_Johnson on January 24, 2004 at 10:03:10 PT The original Traffik had the foreign portion set in Pakistan, did it not?The American short version used Mexico, which is more familiar to Americans as a foreign locale of drug intrigue. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 24, 2004 at 09:53:56 PT Your not missing much FoM Just images of kids freebasing coke, Afghans being bombed, someone chained up being thrown off a boat, and container ships with a voice over saying "what are you shipping? Drugs are just the begining" [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on January 24, 2004 at 09:04:43 PT Thank yippierevolutionary I guess I'll pass on the download. I don't watch many videos to warrant problems with my computer. I need my computer to work for CNews and that's the most important thing to me. I'm a Microsoft person since that is what I've always used and I understand it. I understand it doesn't work all the time! LOL! [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 24, 2004 at 08:59:44 PT I do not know about Windows RP I only use the linux version which runs fine for me. Usually the upgrade has less bugs, thats the way its supposed to work at least lol. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by FoM on January 24, 2004 at 08:55:02 PT yippierevolutionary Thanks for telling us. I tried to watch the trailers but it prompted me to download an upgrade of real player and I was afraid to do it for fear of more bugs. Is it buggy the Real Player 10? [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 24, 2004 at 08:43:25 PT The Traffic Mini-series From the teasers I have seen on this on USA I have a feeling that the creator of the Traffic Movie would not approve. It looks like they are going to make strong ties between drugs and terrorism. It is funny that they are using the Bush Admin's line when Traffic the movie was so clearly anti-prohibition. I have a feeling that this mini-series will suck. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by FoM on January 24, 2004 at 08:31:40 PT Jose Stop posting links. I would appreciate it. This isn't a shock type web site. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by The GCW on January 24, 2004 at 06:53:48 PT 2 update stories for 1:24:4, coming to MAP. US CO: U.S. court snags pot fight Viewed at: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2601539,00.html&US CO: Feds try to stop state charge in medical pot case Viewed at: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1911397,00.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Sam Adams on January 24, 2004 at 06:19:24 PT Holster than weapon mister! And to think: the media says these are the people whom we should ask if marijuana has any medical value!Cop charged with lewdness By Kevin Rothstein Boston HeraldSaturday, January 24, 2004 A Scituate police officer is facing charges for lewd behavior after a woman complained he was masturbating behind the dispatcher's desk when she walked into the seaside town's police station, officials said yesterday. Officer Richard M. Johnson, 35, will likely remain on paid leave at least until his Feb. 8 arraignment, said selectman James Pollard. ``The alleged action by one officer of the department is clearly not representative of a very professional police department,'' he said. Authorities began investigating the Dec. 26 auto-erotic show and soon learned that a Scituate police officer was aware of a similar incident from 2001. Johnson is now facing charges for both, Pollard said. Police are using crime scene technicians from the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office to process evidence from the case. No one answered the phone at Johnson's Scituate home last night. Scituate police are urging anyone else who has had a similar encouter with Johnson to come forward. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by Virgil on January 24, 2004 at 01:24:57 PT GCW, we are at the tipping point By the time the election comes, it will be the minority view that cannabis prohibition should continue. The candidates cannot speak for prohibition knowing that there goofy words in defense of the indefensible will be recorded and distributed for world-wide as a display of foolery.We have seen what our country has become under prohibition. We have between now and the election to implant our vision of what life would be like with Free Cannabis.Not only do I think that Miracle Plant should be legal on the grounds of freedom, I think it would make for a better country and a better world. People do not have to consume cannabis, but under prohibition we all suffer the from black market of the most popular illicit "narcotic" on earth. Under the umbrella of substance abuse, you can work your way down from refined sugar and carbohydrate addiction and the transfat problems and come to the killers of alcohol and tobacco.You would have thought the country would have learned a lesson on alcohol prohibition when it found out this great menace was not as bad as its prohibition. Cannabis should be legal if only to reduce the harm of alcohol. It is alcohol that has destroyed the people I know. If I had a wish, after I wished for a hundred wishes, I would wish that cannabis had been legal in my lifetime so that even I would not have had to deal with it, much less the alcoholics in my immediate family including my father.Then there is tobacco. Free Cannabis will bring a great gift to those that use tobacco. It will bring them vaporizers. It could be that some people would go on to quit once the habit of cigarettes is transformed. It could be that they at least reduce the harms of the smoke and maybe even the cost. As the standard of living falls or people retire to a fixed income, it could be they grow their own plant, as the future holds a bright future for people that tend plants they consume.I may not have heard it all, but a lot of it I have heard a thousand times. It is time to say that the world would be a better place with Free Cannabis and learn the talk and talk it. It is an election year and the candidates running for Congress need to be pinned for an answer. Say something goofy or call for the Logical Conclusion, but silence is not acceptable. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by The GCW on January 24, 2004 at 00:07:50 PT Virgil, The media is starting to step it up. US CO: Editorial: Freedom under attack Viewed at: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E73%257E1906165,00.html?search=filter Article Published: Thursday, January 22, 2004 Editorial Freedom under attack There's no question that terrorism still poses a danger to our way of life. And drug abuse is another deadly threat. Yet increasingly intrusive policies aimed at these problems whittle away the precious freedoms bequeathed by our Founding Fathers. It troubles us that the government seems to have embarked on a headlong rush toward Big Brotherism in the name of national security and/or winning the war on drugs.In recent days, the federal government said it plans to overhaul its employee drug-screening program by switching to tests that analyze workers' hair, sweat and saliva. snipped...http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E73%257E1906165,00.html?search=filterComing to MAP... THE DENVER POST HAS SPOKEN. Let Us continue this speech. Contact: openforum denverpost.comopenforum denverpost.com [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by Virgil on January 23, 2004 at 22:02:03 PT Virgil 4 , All others 3 I take the lead with comments in this thread. There was another "should marijuana be legal" thread at DU- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1050544#1050691I mention it mainly because it shows that no one has even tried to defend CP and that there are resources to expand on the positions taken for people that want to learn. It is in messageboards across the world that the real feelings and facts of CP are dripping truth. We are running the media blockade and we are winning. We are exposing the media and the silence of the politicians that do not take up the cross of prohibition with their words because they know the would be stoned with their own stupid utterances.From http://www.onlinepot.org/ - The Drug Warrior's Pledge:"I Pledge Allegiance to the Drug War of the United States of America, And to the Hypocrisy for Which It Stands, One Notion, Under Czar, Indefensible, With Incarceration and Injustice for All." - Thomas Paine [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by Virgil on January 23, 2004 at 20:29:22 PT Three-part mini series based on Traffic on Monday There will be a three-part mini series based on the movie Traffic starting Monday on the USA network- http://www.usanetwork.com/series/traffic/index.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Virgil on January 23, 2004 at 20:24:04 PT Kap, do CIA agents in police force apply? There is new legislation proposed that would change the nature of the CIA and assign them to local police forces. For some reason some people seem upset.Chanting, placard-carrying demonstrators picketed the Manhattan office of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria) Tuesday to protest legislation to permit the assigning of CIA agents to local police. - http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10850384&BRD=1079&PAG=461&dept_id=170338&rfi=6 [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on January 23, 2004 at 20:03:02 PT Stand For those who were conscious during the seventies, anyone remember Sly and the Family Stone? For everyone else -- look this song up, it's a great anthem for activists.StandIn the end you'll still be youOne that's done all the things you set out to doStandThere's a cross for you to bearThings to go through if you're going anywhereStandFor the things you know are rightIt's the truth that the truth makes them so uptightStandAll the things you want are realYou have you to complete and there is no dealStand. stand, standStand. stand, standStandYou've been sitting much too longThere's a permanent crease in your right and wrongStandThere's a midget standing tallAnd the giant beside him about to fallStand. stand, standStand. stand, standStandThey will try to make you crawlAnd they know what you're saying makes sense and allStandDon't you know that you are freeWell at least in your mind if you want to beEverybodyStand, stand, stand [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by JustGetnBy on January 23, 2004 at 19:58:27 PT AMEN!!!! Much More at Stake Kaptinemo The simple truth, plainly stated,rings like the Liberty Bell. Oh! That more thought like thee and me. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on January 23, 2004 at 18:39:55 PT: Push is coming to shove, finally Local LEO's have for the longest time enjoyed a double standard; pretending to be Feds so long as a Fed was present in their raids. Just one problem; the 10th Amendment clearly spells out that anything not enumerated in the Constitution as being solely Federal in nature automatically devolves to the sovereign States and the People.Local LEOs cannot by Constitutional mandate serve two masters. They are either locals or Feds, not some Frankensteinian hybrid. Either local LEO's are controlled locally...or they are all US Federal officers at all times. Nothing less than the balance of power between the States and the Federal government is at stake. What happens in that courtroom will in large part decide the fate of much, MUCH more than two ounces of weed. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Virgil on January 23, 2004 at 18:27:11 PT Getting drunk and killing someone is only 100 days Former US Representative Janklow gets only 100 days for drunk driving and speeding through a stop sign only to kill someone. He gets 100 days in jail and will not get felony that would take his law license- http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0123-06.htmWith CP we have truth inversion, moral inversion, and there is clearly a sentencing inversion where cannabis use and cultivation should set the baseline for 0. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment