Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'medicinalmarijuana'
August 8, 2008
Or at least, let's write it down guys. Just recently launched the "Washington State Potline" is a toll-free call center where people can get information on medical marijuana laws, attorney referrals, and report medical marijuana arrests or prosecution. The "Potline" was started by the Cannabis Defense Coalition to help hold state agencies and law enforcement accountable that "that violate the spirit of the state's medical use of marijuana act." Of course, in our opinion,......
Continue Reading "A Number Stoners Actually Need to Remember"July 31, 2008
Despite the fact that medical marijuana is legal in the State of Washington and the Seattle Police Department are paid to uphold said laws, the SPD handed over 12 ounces of illegally seized medicinal marijuana to the DEA. The SPD turned the medical marijuana to the DEA at the request of U.S. Attorney Jeff Sullivan, who asked for it to be destroyed. Strangely, this same attorney's office is not pursuing criminal charges or any......
Continue Reading "DEA Takes Medicinal Marijuana Seized by SPD "July 18, 2008
After a possibly illegal Tuesday raid on an office providing care, resources, and referrals to medicinal marijuana patients, Seattle Police have agreed to return patient files and a computer hard drive that were taken during the incident. The SPD does, however, refuse to return 12 ounces of dried marijuana and two bongs they seized Tuesday. Police have told Martin Martinez, owner of the office that was raided, that he will not be facing criminal......
Continue Reading "Police Return Records to Medical Marijuana Office "May 2, 2008
Timothy Garon, the local man who was denied a life-saving liver transplant because he used doctor-prescribed medicinal marijuana, died late Thursday.Garon was recieving hospice care at the Bailey-Boushay House where he died, according to a press statement by his lawyer. Few stories we've written or read lately seem as tragic or senseless as Garon's. We doubt, if Garon had been able to medicate his pain with morphine or pills, that we would be writing......
Continue Reading "Medical Marijuana Patient Who Was Denied Liver Dies "April 28, 2008
Timothy Garon in Hospice Care with his girlfriend, Leisa Bueno - AP Photo/ElaineThompson Timothy Garon is 56 years old and dying of liver failure. Without a liver transplant, he will die in a matter of days, but the University of Washington Medical Center has decided he is not a fit candidate for a possibly life-saving transplant. The reason? Garon used physician-prescribed medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of hepatitis C, the disease that is killing......
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