cannabisnews.com: Police Retreat from Cannabis Case Police Retreat from Cannabis Case Posted by CN Staff on May 26, 2004 at 15:36:24 PT By Heidi Rowley, Staff Writer Source: Tulare Advance-Register Jeff Nunes, 26, loves his plants. He fingers the green, glossy leaves and looks lovingly at the 2-foot-tall plant as if it were his life's salvation. Nunes believes it is. He says the 11 marijuana plants provide the cannabis that relieves him of extreme back pain. "They said I was going to be in chronic pain all my life," he said. A fall in 2001 left him bedridden for two years. "As soon as I started using cannabis, I gave them back all the pills," Nunes said. "I started seeing how much more effective this is than other drugs." Nunes and his marijuana plants are at the center of what appears to be a change in attitude among Tulare County law enforcement agencies -- the result of a ruling by a federal appeals court in December. Visalia police raided Nunes' house in September and, Nunes says, removed 18 marijuana plants and tools he used to process them. Nunes said he showed officers his two recommendation cards that identify him as a legitimate user of medical marijuana. "When they realized I wasn't a drug dealer but a patient, their attitude changed," he said. "I tried to help them understand what was going on here and it was a legit operation." Even then, he said, "They uprooted all my plants. They destroyed all of it. They took all my medicinal tools. I had enough medicine that would have lasted me until the next season." Three months later, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said people who use marijuana on the advice of a doctor are exempt from federal laws that ban the substance if they grow their own or get it free. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/caseretreat.htmSource: Tulare Advance-Register (CA)Author: Heidi Rowley, Staff WriterPublished: Wednesday, May 26, 2004Copyright: 2004, Tulare Advance-RegisterContact: editorial visaliatimesdelta.comWebsite: http://www.tulareadvanceregister.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmStage Set for Legal Showdown Over Pot http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18876.shtmlJudge Protects 2 Medical Pot Usershttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18875.shtmlCourt Allows Medicinal Use of Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18406.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by FoM on May 27, 2004 at 17:53:03 PT Gone To Pot - Rodney Dangerfield Excerpt from article: Back at the table, Rodney lifts his big head and says, "You want to smoke a little shit? I don't know how good this is. I just got it. Decent shit costs you a minimum of $500 an ounce. As a kid I bought pot for $25 an ounce. An ounce! Oh, everything's insane. Oh, everything's wild!''He hands me a joint, fires it up, then fires one up for himself. He says he's been getting high since he was twenty-one. He says he once got stoned at the White House, during the Reagan years. He says that about two years ago, during a heart-attack scare, after being wheeled into the intensive-care unit at an L.A. hospital, he lit up a joint in the bathroom and caught holy hell for it. He says that the only days he isn't smoking pot are the days when he's in surgery or similarly indisposed; most recently, he went under the knife to have the superficial temporal artery near his left ear inserted into the middle cerebral artery of his Rodney brain, in a high-risk, high-cost, no-laughs procedure known as an extracranial-intracranial brain bypass. "The surgeon who did that one calls Rodney his Picasso,'' says Joan. Joan also says that she's a good Mormon and never gets high with her pothead husband. Rodney says that he's a legal pothead these days, having received doctor's orders to smoke the stuff, mostly to control his high blood pressure.http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6054693 [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on May 27, 2004 at 07:59:00 PT Be careful with that whole generation of drugs That Lariam is chemcially from the same family as Cipro and Levaquin, two popular antibiotics that also cause extreme psychiatric symptoms. I have never been told about permanent brain damage from either of them however. Perhaps that should be looked into.What also should be looked into is whether cannabis can prevent yet another terrible side effect of a legal drug. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by JustGetnBy on May 27, 2004 at 07:20:19 PT I'm guilty, Take Away my heart medication!! from snipped portion of article"Recommendations become invalid one year after the date they're issued or if the card-holder is arrested for a non-cannabis related crime"I've never heard of having your recomendation cancled or invalidated because of an arrest. I wonder if this reporter is stretching his stupidity boundries or if the bast #^DS slid this provision into law through some side window. I wonder if they will take away my other prescribed meds as well. It sure makes sense to me that I should have to die of diabetic consequences because I somehow manage to get caught up on the wrong side of the Police State Boogie. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on May 27, 2004 at 02:32:04 PT Legal drug causing GI brain damage http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040526-105156-8460r [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by mayan on May 26, 2004 at 16:52:37 PT Sue Em'!!! From the snipped portion of the article..."Earlier this month, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office decided not to file charges against Nunes, and last week the police department returned his tools, but not his marijuana plants, which it said were destroyed." How nice of the cops that they won't file charges! Never mind that they destroyed this man's medicine! Aren't these law enforcement officials sworn to uphold California State law? 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