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Medical Pot Growers Seek Joint Resolution
Posted by CN Staff on September 17, 2004 at 19:25:13 PT
By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News
Source: Rocky Mountain News 
Three people who grow marijuana for medical use asked federal authorities Wednesday to return their growing equipment as part of a widening conflict between Colorado and federal laws.Colorado allows the growing and use of small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes. With extremely rare exceptions, federal law does not.
Thomas and Larisa Lawrence and Andrew Fry asked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to return their growing equipment, seized in June, in a nine-page letter from their lawyer, Robert Corry Jr."Mr. Lawrence, his wife Larisa, and friend Andrew Fry are caregivers to dozens of medical marijuana patients in Colorado," Corry wrote."They are truly compassionate individuals, providing care and medicine to dozens of patients for no financial rewards," he said. "Through sheer generosity and selfless sacrifice, they spend painstaking hours in the cultivation and harvesting of medical marijuana to provide life-giving medicine to people who need it."Federal authorities don't see it that way.Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office, said the Lawrences and Fry won't get their equipment back anytime soon, if ever."At this time, it cannot be returned because it is evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation," Dorschner said.Federal authorities contend that although the Lawrences and Fry are authorized by the state to grow marijuana for others, they had many more plants or quantities of pot on hand than the state permits.The DEA has, however, returned marijuana growing equipment to two other Coloradans.One was Dana May, of Aurora, who earlier this month got back equipment he used to grow marijuana.May has suffered from chronic pain since a 1995 accident. His physician authorized his medical use of marijuana under Colorado's law, which was enacted by the state's voters in 2000 as an amendment to the state constitution.Nevertheless, DEA agents and Aurora police officers seized the equipment from May's home in late May, along with 109 grams of marijuana - much more than Colorado law lets medical users keep on hand.May sued Aurora police, demanding the return of his equipment. He dropped his lawsuit when the DEA agreed to give it back.State and federal authorities did not prosecute May for illegal possession of marijuana. But the DEA kept his stash.Colorado has licensed about 375 people to use marijuana for medical reasons. Allowed reasons include cancer, HIV/AIDS, muscle spasms, seizures, chronic pain, chronic nausea and the inability to eat.Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News (CO)Author: Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain NewsPublished: September 16, 2004Copyright: 2004 Denver Publishing Co.Contact: letters denver-rmn.com Website: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmKeystone Kops Nail 'Pothead' in Great Painhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19449.shtmlFeds Back Down in Medical Pot Casehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19401.shtmlAiling Auroran Sues for Seized Pot's Returnhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19396.shtml
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Comment #3 posted by breeze on September 18, 2004 at 10:10:12 PT
I just hve to say it-
I can't hold it back- I read the title and I had to stop in."Medical Pot Growers Seek Joint Resolution"- Okay-Here is a joint for you and a joint for you. Now, we are resoluted.It is like yesterday, I saw a headline on a local newspaper that read- "Local gas prices getting BIGGER because of Ivan"- I was like "WHAT TH'...?... Gettin' BIGGER?" BLINK BLINK.Should it not have said, Local gas prices going HIGHER because of Irvan, not "getting bigger"? Seems like even the news authorities are afraid to use the word high when its appropiate.Stupid media, go back to school.
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Comment #2 posted by mayan on September 18, 2004 at 05:39:03 PT
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Comment #1 posted by ALM on September 18, 2004 at 05:07:09 PT
Prohibition is a tool of capitalist greed
The war on marijuana is more about protecting pharmaceutical industry profits than protecting society from an evil weed.The real reason the federal government doesn't want us to have marijuana is because a safe, effective medicine people can grow in their backyards for free doesn't enrich greedy corporations.We need to connect the dots between the war on marijuana and outrageous prices for prescription drugs and realize that it is all part of the same greedy plan to gouge sick people.We let them get away with selling dangerous "anti-depressants" to children that increase the risk of suicide, while jack-booted thugs from the government kick down the doors of sick people who use a medicine that nature provides for free.
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