Posted on 11/26/2005 5:10:56 AM PST by JTN
The federal war on medi-pot patients hit a new low last month when Royal Canadian Mounted Police nabbed 38-year-old Steven W. Tuck from his Vancouver, B.C., hospital bed, whisked him to the border, and relinquished him to the custody of U.S. officials, who wanted him on charges related to a 2001 marijuana bust in California. Tuck, an Army vet, uses marijuana to help treat chronic pain associated with injuries he received in a parachuting accident back in the 1980s (reportedly his parachute failed to open during a jump). In 2001, after his marijuana-growing operation in California was busted, Tuck fled to Canada in an effort to avoid prosecution, reports The Washington Post. For four years, he had been navigating the Canadian system, seeking asylum, but was abruptly, and surprisingly, denied that safe harbor last month, says Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML.
Police arrested Tuck on Oct. 7 after he checked himself into a Vancouver hospital seeking treatment for prostate problems. According to friend Richard Cowan, Tuck was on a gurney, fitted with a catheter, when RCMP nabbed him, cuffed him, and put him in an SUV bound for the border. "I would not believe it unless I had seen it," Cowan told the Post.
Tuck was turned over to authorities and thrown in jail, where he remained for five days with the catheter in place and with only ibuprofen for his pain – pain for which he'd been prescribed morphine and Oxycontin, among other narcotic drugs, says St. Pierre. He was finally taken to court on Oct. 12. "This is totally inhumane," Tuck's lawyer Douglas Hiatt told the Post. "He's been tortured for days for no reason." U.S. Magistrate James P. Donohue re-leased Tuck, at least temporarily, so that he could be taken to a hospital. Tuck's trip to the hospital was waylaid, however, by law enforcement officials who immediately picked him up on a detainer issued by Humboldt Co., Calif., officials in connection with state drug charges related to his growing medi-pot for him-self and others. (Although Tuck is a California state-registered medi-pot patient – meaning he's authorized under state law to possess and grow marijuana for medical purposes – he was also growing for others. At the time, California law enforcers were working under a patchwork of local regulations that defined who could grow for dispensary purposes and exactly how much each person could grow. Tuck had been busted in two different California jurisdictions for growing more than the local law allowed.)
After a flurry of phone calls, Tuck was taken to the hospital, and since then his attorneys have negotiated his release from jail – with the promise that he'll make his various California state court appearances. Sources tell "Weed Watch" that given Tuck's medical condition and the current state of California's medi-pot laws, his supporters are cautiously optimistic that the state charges against him will be dropped. If that happens, whether Tuck will face any prosecution will be left solely up to the feds, who want him on one count of unlawful flight to Canada to avoid the California charges. Whether the federal narcos will exercise their right to bully the sick remains to be seen.
I understand your frustration: if I'd been caught red-handed passing off what someone else said as my own ("to coin a phrase"), I'd be angry at the person who pointed it out, too.
Research demonstrates the moderate efficacy of Cannabis as a repellent crop or botanical pesticide. We are faced, however, with a paradox: some of the pests controlled by Cannabis are also known to attack hemp and marijuana crops. If Cannabis serves as an effective pesticide, then how can the pests infesting Cannabis survive?>>>
The bugs in question are pests found in Europe and Asia, marijuana's native habitat. It was brought to America by Europeans IIRC.
And...One of the most destructive pests of hemp is the corn stem borer moth (Ostrinia nubilalis Hb.), known in North America as the European corn borer.
It sure isn't killing the borer moth.>>>
Give it a few million more years to evolve.
Oh yeah, I also smoke pot every day.
Now, Mr. Apalled ....what is it that you do that you feel morally superior enough to judge me. I laugh at your lack intellect and logic, I laugh at your puniness and your lack of achievement (and income - I make WELL over 6 figures). And, I am "Apalled but not suprised" by your ignorance and hypocrisy.
Even if it leads to their blindness?
A fascist in the sense of attributing powers to the Federal Government those that are given to the states. But statist is more accurate a description, IMO.
Do you know the difference between pot and opium or do you just lump everything together?
Demonization is a tool exclusively used by liberals, socialists, dictators etc. when the facts are all on the other side. Take off your ballet shoes and stop dancing your way through the subject.
As to your "readership", it looks like you are imagining yourself to be a part of the media. That speaks volumes about you.
People who livc in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses
"Because it doesn't make you nearly as stupid as pot does. "
Either , 1 - You are kidding
or, 2 - You don't have a clue about what you are talking about.
Why would the pot lead to their blindness?
I'll be waiting for the first opportunity to bring it up in conversation with friends.
I am a Christian evolutionist. Many Christians are evolutionists.
I'm married with 3 dogs and 2 cats and a wonderful wife. I work anywhere from 10-16 hours a day on my business - 6 days a week.
Oh yeah, I also smoke pot every day.
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That last line certainly explains your thinking. And it also probably explains why you don't have any children. (MJ kills sex drive too.) I gave up my six figure job to raise mine. Put not your treasure on earth, where thieves berak in to steal it and it rusts and grows moldy.
But hey, that's okay, your cats, dogs and grandcats and granddogs will no doubt mourn you when you leave this earth.
The term of art is "Roman Catholic."
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