Posted on 08/30/2005 5:17:02 AM PDT by Wolfie
Police Return Medical Marijuana
Along with feeling redemption, Timothy Haas was also feeling queasy today as he picked up a plastic bag containing half an ounce of marijuana at the Denver Police Department.
"I just want to go home and lie down," Haas said. "The marijuana will calm me down."
Denver police returned the marijuana to Haas after authorities confiscated the drugs a month ago. Haas is prescribed to use medical marijuana for post traumatic syndrome and post concussion syndrome.
He suffered the ailments when he was attacked with a bat and stabbed three times in an attempted robbery at his wine business in 2001. Haas started using medical marijuana to deal with the pain three years ago.
In late July, Haas said he was stopped for a security check at Denver Health Medical Center when he visited his brother who was in an automobile accident. Haas showed his medical papers to police when they found marijuana in his backpack.
The drugs were taken away and Haas was never charged.
Robert Corry Jr., Haas' attorney, said he had threatened to file a lawsuit if the marijuana was not returned to his client. The two were happy after leaving the police department.
"This shows Colorado's medical marijuana program is alive and well," said Robert Corry Jr., Haas' attorney. "He wishes he didn't have to go through a lawyer to get it back."
Colorado is one of 10 states to allow people with certain medical conditions to use and grow marijuana with a doctor's approval.
Haas said the marijuana helps him deal with his muscle spasms and the constant vibrations he feels in his spine from his injury.
"I'm the voice for all the terminally ill and legitimate marijuana users who can't get out of bed," Haas said. "It's the last thing a terminal man wants to go through."
A great deal of the data has been derived from small studies, some of which have contained inherent flaws and
The findings of some of the larger studies conducted over the last 20 years have varied considerably
this is the link your using to support your argument that smoking weed causes phychosis?A website that admits at the outset that they are wrong and make stuff up?Thats not the best argument you can make against smoking weed.Heres a link for you to check out if you want to know the mindset of the people that first had cannabis outlawed.See if you see any similarities in what the proponents of outlawing marijuna said back then and these flawed studys that were in your link today please take special note of wehy they stopped spelling marihuana whith and h and started spelling it with a j before they had it outlawed The History of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
To how great an extent the federal government has deceived them about marijuana.
The extent of damage that the government is doing to our population by dividing our population against itself by pitting people who do not use marijuana against those of us who prefer to consume marijuana.
It's not a matter of making enough laws against marijuana to prevent it's use. People who choose to use marijuana are going to do so. It's a matter of how society is going to respond to those of us who enjoy using marijuana. We would all be much better off without the witch hunt.
Exactly, how many enabled Rush Limbaugh's drug abuse?
A majority of voters in Colorado have spoken. They support Medical Marijuana, and to think that you have to stop them because it violates your unique morals is the height of arrogance.
yeah me and the feds.....
Maybe the next generation of morons has noticed how badly the previous generations have been thrashed on this topic.
No real, libertarians are against those things.....Conservatism tends to agree with my stand....
Conservatives want to flush the Constitution?!
I have seen so many wasted human beings who have had so much potential.
Ever seen alcohol waste human potential? I have. Should it be banned?
I guess being brain dead and happy is an individuals perogative...
Criminalization has had no demonstrable deterrent effect, but has created its own problems.
I love the way you edited out my caveats.....
you could write for the MSM.
*yawn* So you like to think of yourself as near-libertarian. So what? Have any responses to my points, or just more whining?
Psychotic Cannabis Haze would be a great name for a rock group.
OK Robert. Yes, psychotic... it almost sounds medical so it must be. Canibis Haze Syndrome is pretty good too but I really like Psychotic Pharmecutical Haze or PPH better. When I go to their concerts not only does my health insurance pay for everything but they also pay for drug companies and physicians to rock on that old cash cow too. PPH is so much more leeegal and it makes me feeeel so right about myself. I really hate those PCH followers, too. They should all be in prison. Imagine the nerve, taking money away from the pharmecutical industrial complex - bastards. They've got to be crazy.... no psychotic. Yeah, that's it. Isn't it time for my next pill? It's medicine you know!
Somehow Robert, I don't see you lining up to buy the anthology from either band.
Not a big fan of Dave Barry, I guess.
It still has to carry a tax stamp on it like cigarettes and whiskey do. No kidding. They passed that law in the 1930s. The catch-22 was that you had to purchase the tax stamp but you couldn't purchase the tax stamp unless you were in possession of actual marijuana which was illegal at the time. Well, if it's no longer illegal to possess -- time to purchase the tax stamps!
Yeah, i've read him but not regularly. Not my kind of reading.
Yep. Modeled after the method they used to make machine guns illegal.
Your [sic] pointless.
No, but you're semiliterate.
must be a cannabis sativa sense of false importance on your part...
Ah, here come the unfounded personal attacks ... stock in trade for drug war fanatics.
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