1 posted on
01/31/2003 3:28:07 PM PST by
MikalM
To: *Wod_list; *libertarians
Life in prison for someone with a green thumb, prevented by federal law from citing a state law that authorized his activities.
2 posted on
01/31/2003 3:30:00 PM PST by
coloradan
To: MikalM
The "Guru of Ganja" sign out front was probably a bad idea then. Or maybe the business cards tripped him up.
To: MikalM
Under strict orders from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, Rosenthal was never able to tell the jury that he was growing marijuana as "an officer" for the city of Oakland's medical marijuana program.
Huh? That makes no sense to me. "Hey, You're not aloud to use your best defense because I say so" Wouldn't that just have been a fact in the case?
4 posted on
01/31/2003 3:35:40 PM PST by
Nouge
To: MikalM; Wolfie
Oh sheesh, here come the kangaroo pictures from the Libertarians calling the court and jury "statists" all for following the law.
5 posted on
01/31/2003 3:37:35 PM PST by
Dane
To: MikalM
Under strict orders from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, Rosenthal was never able to tell the jury that he was growing marijuana as "an officer" for the city of Oakland's medical marijuana program. Sickening.
To: MikalM
Oh, well. One less libertine on the streets is not really a bad thing.
7 posted on
01/31/2003 3:39:06 PM PST by
exnavy
To: MikalM
Oakland's program and others throughout California were authorized under Proposition 215. Eight other states also allow the sick and dying to smoke or grow marijuana with a doctor's recommendation. But federal authorities do not recognize those laws.
Best words I have ever seen of describing the marriage between the Greens and Libertarians.
9 posted on
01/31/2003 3:40:03 PM PST by
Dane
To: MikalM
Hopefully this will haunt the jurors for ten-to-life when they find out what they were used for. There must be one or two decent people on the jury.
To: MikalM
12 people in San Francisco think druggies belong in jail. How did they find 'em?;)))
To: MikalM
'He faces a maximum life term'
Cruel, most cruel, but not unusual, punishment. This is war, America declared it on its own people. The man is a political prisoner at this point, as well as a war criminal I believe. Guess we better all toe the gov'mint line 'ere we rot.
63 posted on
01/31/2003 7:27:26 PM PST by
Darheel
(I'll be waiting at the gates of hell for some payback. See ya.)
To: MikalM
Too bad for him he's not a crack head like Noelle Bush who commited FELONY FRAUD. Then he'd get rehab instead of life in prison.
The verdicts were a victory in the federal government's battle against California's 1996 voter-approved medical marijuana law. Rosenthal's arrest last year was among a string of Drug Enforcement Administration raids on medical marijuana suppliers in California.
TENTH AMENDMENT anyone?
79 posted on
01/31/2003 8:17:46 PM PST by
GirlShortstop
(*swish*... right down the toilet.)
To: MikalM
"...the author of how-to-grow books on marijuana and how to avoid the law..."
Oops, time to rewrite that second part. He should have a little spare time.
To: MikalM
A couple excerpts from an
interview with the "kind" and "honest" ganja guru --
I'm for total legalization, but it won't happen until 2005, after the Bush presidency.(Ya think he's a Republican?)
Every marijuana user is persecuted, in every country in the world.
(You hear that, Amsterdam? Note: In the same interview linked above, it is pointed out that Belgium and Portugal have decriminalized use and possession, and that other countries like the UK have become lax on enforcement -- but the interviewer was apparently too stoned to note the contradiction between these facts and Rosenthal's sweeping claim of persecution.)
What a phony this guy is. All through the trial, he and his supporters have represented him as an angel of mercy, trying only to help the sick and dying, to ease their agony. But the truth is that he also profits by instructing others on how to grow more potent drug and larger yield crop. He also markets related products such as special soils that he claims will accomplish all this. The "medical" angle is just a trendy cover for his drug dealing operation.
To: MikalM
Build more prisons so we can jail ALL the druggies!
To: MikalM
He faces a maximum life term when sentenced June 4.WHY does it take six months from conviction to sentence? A week or two to review the proceedings for errors then passing sentence seems right.
139 posted on
02/01/2003 9:22:40 AM PST by
JimRed
To: MikalM
Under strict orders from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, Rosenthal was never able to tell the jury that he was growing marijuana as "an officer" for the city of Oakland's medical marijuana program. That sounds a bit unfair. One should be allowed to proffer any defense one wants to, and let the jury decide if it is exculpatory.
To: MikalM
From a constitutional law perspective, it would be interesting to see this develop in appeals. It would be so 'nice' to see America getting in touch with its Constitution (and vice versa).
As for the how-to marijuana man, let's see, did I have a tear in my eye today? Oh yes, about the shuttle accident.
173 posted on
02/01/2003 2:36:08 PM PST by
unspun
("What is man that You are mindful of him?" - Psalm 8)
To: Wolfie; vin-one; WindMinstrel; headsonpikes; philman_36; Beach_Babe; jenny65; AUgrad; Xenalyte; ...
WOD Ping
380 posted on
02/02/2003 8:47:42 AM PST by
jmc813
(Do tigers sleep in lily patches? Do rhinos run from thunder?)
To: MikalM
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/01/MN108651.DTL
In a final twist to the trial, the jury foreman said he hoped Rosenthal would win his appeal.
"I am for the use of medical marijuana, as a number of jurors were," Charles Sackett, 51, a construction contractor from Sebastopol, told reporters.
"We just couldn't base our decision on that. . . . We followed the letter of the law."
Later, another juror called the verdict an injustice.
"We were made to feel like we had no choice, even though we were residents of a state that has legalized medical marijuana," said Marney Craig, 58, a property manager from Novato. "It seems like we made a horrible mistake. I should have stood up and said, 'I'm not convicting.' "
Craig said she realized how much information had been kept from the jury when she drove home after the verdict and read newspaper accounts that jurors had been told to avoid during the trial.
411 posted on
02/03/2003 6:50:23 AM PST by
MrLeRoy
("That government is best which governs least.")
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