cannabisnews.com: Ventura Swat Team Terrorize MMJ Patient





Ventura Swat Team Terrorize MMJ Patient
Posted by FoM on July 15, 1999 at 12:48:01 PT
Paul Stanford
Source: CRRH
CAMARILLO, CA: A Ventura County narcotics SWAT team invaded the house of medical marijuana patient Lisa Cordova Schwarz and her caregiver husband last Thursday, July 8, 1999.
The couple were arrested and held in custody for 31 hours along with their 23-year old son Jason, who had come home to visit.    "During that time I was in severe pain with a full blown headache, vomiting in a trash can," recounts Ms. Schwarz, "They shackled me at the ankle and laughed at me, calling me a flight risk. They transported me to an 'honor farm' where I was harassed, and refused treatment for my condition."    Ms. Schwarz, who is disabled by a serious back injury, says she had a physician's recommendation to use marijuana and had previously informed the Ventura district attorney of her intent to avail herself of Prop. 215.     The Schwarzes were released on $20,000 bond each. Their son was released on his own recognizance because he had not been named in the warrant.    Some 60 marijuana plants were discovered in the Schwarz's home.     "This is one more outrageous example of drug enforcement abuse," commented California NORML coordinator Dale Gieringer. "It is a bad enough misuse of law enforcement resources to waste so much firepower on home marijuana growers. To do so against legal medical marijuana patients is inexcusable." Dale Gieringer(415) 563-5858canorml igc.apc.org2215-R Market St. #278,San Francisco CA 94114We are working to regulate and tax adult marijuana sales, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and allow the unregulated production of industrial hemp! *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 Phone:(503) 235-4606 Fax:(503) 235-0120Web: http://www.crrh.org/ To subscribe, unsubscribe or switch to immediate or digest mode, please send your instructions to restore-owner crrh.org*Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp*CRRH ;P.O. Box 86741;Portland, OR 97286Phone:(503) 235-4606Fax:(503) 235-0120Web: http://www.crrh.org/
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