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**Fruriourl** · 09-23-2006, 07:00 AM

It seems that the laws against use of marijuana for medicinal purposes will not be lifted anytime soon based on the June 2005 Supreme Court decision wherein the Court ruled (as reported by CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/sc...cal.marijuana/):

"doctors can be blocked from prescribing marijuana for patients suffering from pain caused by cancer or other serious illnesses."

Read on to inform yourself of the lengths to which our public "servants" (i.e.: judges) will go to punish those who make the personal choice to use marijuana to alleviate pain:

She's Not the Only One Who's Retchin

September 23, 2005
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/09/shes_not_the_on_1.shtml#011093

This week the family of Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic who died of acute respiratory failure a year ago while serving time in the D.C. jail on a marijuana charge, sued the city and Greater Southeast Community Hospital for inadequately treating the breathing problems he experienced while in custody. Magbie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident at age 4, smoked marijuana to relieve the pain associated with his condition. Although he was convicted of possessing just one joint and was eligible for probation, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith E. Retchin sentenced him to 10 days, partly because he said he planned to continue smoking marijuana. Retchin, who was not named in the suit, said she tried to ensure that the jail was equipped to care for Magbie, who used a ventilator, which the jail did not have, to assist his breathing at night. An official investigation found that, due to "failures of communication," the assurances Retchin received concerned the ability of a federal prison to care for a paraplegic, rather than the ability of the local jail to care for a quadriplegic. The Marijuana Policy Project says Congress shares the blame for Magbie's death, since it overrode a D.C. ballot initiative that would have protected patients like him from prosecution for marijuana possession.

Posted by Jacob Sullum at September 23, 2005 03:22 PM

09-23-2006, 07:00 AM	#1
Fruriourl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 452 Senior Member	Medicinal Marijuana It seems that the laws against use of marijuana for medicinal purposes will not be lifted anytime soon based on the June 2005 Supreme Court decision wherein the Court ruled (as reported by CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/sc...cal.marijuana/): *"doctors can be blocked from prescribing marijuana for patients suffering from pain caused by cancer or other serious illnesses."* Read on to inform yourself of the lengths to which our public "servants" (i.e.: judges) will go to punish those who make the personal choice to use marijuana to alleviate pain: She's Not the Only One Who's Retchin September 23, 2005 http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/09/shes_not_the_on_1.shtml#011093 This week the family of Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic who died of acute respiratory failure a year ago while serving time in the D.C. jail on a marijuana charge, sued the city and Greater Southeast Community Hospital for inadequately treating the breathing problems he experienced while in custody. Magbie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident at age 4, smoked marijuana to relieve the pain associated with his condition. Although he was convicted of possessing just one joint and was eligible for probation, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith E. Retchin sentenced him to 10 days, partly because he said he planned to continue smoking marijuana. Retchin, who was not named in the suit, said she tried to ensure that the jail was equipped to care for Magbie, who used a ventilator, which the jail did not have, to assist his breathing at night. An official investigation found that, due to "failures of communication," the assurances Retchin received concerned the ability of a federal prison to care for a paraplegic, rather than the ability of the local jail to care for a quadriplegic. The Marijuana Policy Project says Congress shares the blame for Magbie's death, since it overrode a D.C. ballot initiative that would have protected patients like him from prosecution for marijuana possession. Posted by Jacob Sullum at September 23, 2005 03:22 PM
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