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Drug Defendant Says He Has Prescriptions
Posted by FoM on October 10, 1999 at 07:01:42 PT
By Rod Thompson, Big Island correspondent
Source: Star Bulletin
HILOMarijuana legalization advocate Jonathan Adler says he has two doctors' prescriptions to smoke marijuana to treat his asthma and insomnia.
Adler, 47, a nonpartisan County Council candidate last year and previously a mayoral candidate, was indicted recently for commercial promotion of marijuana and possession of marijuana paraphernalia for events in 1998.The indictment lists a single instance when police found more than 50 marijuana plants at his rural home, but Adler says police raided his house four times. He admitted to police after the first raid that the plants were his.But he quoted a section of state law that says it is a defense from prosecution if the person possessing marijuana does so "as an ultimate user of the drug pursuant to a lawful prescription."Adler says he has prescriptions from Dr. Daniel Susott in Honolulu and Dr. Todd Mikuriya in Berkeley, Calif.Their written statements are displayed on Adler's Internet site: http://www.medijuana.comThe Star-Bulletin attempted to contact both doctors, but reached only answering machines.Adler is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment Nov. 9.Saturday, October 9, 1999 © 1999 Honolulu Star-BulletinTod H. Mikuriya, M.D. http://www.mikuriya.com/althealth/index.html
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