Disclaimer: this is a press release from an organization not affiliated with the LPCO, however I agree with the cause and I am sure others will as well.
For immediate release: April 13, 2009
*Free Medical Cannabis Patient Jason Lauve*
Contact: Timothy Tipton, Rocky Mountain Caregivers' Cooperative
(720) 329-5763
Rob Corry, Attorney for Jason Lauve
(303) 634-2244
[Boulder, CO] -- Rocky Mountain Caregivers Cooperative, one of the oldest cannabis therapeutic organizations in Colorado, is using the upcoming 4/20 International Cannabis Day to call attention to the prosecution of medical cannabis patient Jason Lauve (pronounced 'laav') and hundreds of patients like him in Colorado.
Watch the video here:
Despite the passage of Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law in 2000, Boulder County is still arresting and prosecuting patients who are supposed to be protected under the law. Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law (specifically, Article 18, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution) allows patients with debilitating medical conditions to use cannabis as medicine if their physician recommends it. If a patient has a valid Medical Marijuana Registry ID card from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, they are supposed to be exempt from the state's criminal laws regarding cannabis possession and cultivation.
Jason is a Boulder County resident who became a medicinal cannabis patient when he suffered serious back injuries in an accident at Eldora Ski Area in December 2004. Jason had been waiting in a lift line, when a snowboarderlost control and flew through the air, slamming directly into Jason's back from behind. Jason never saw it coming, and suffered severe injuries to his back. The accident left Jason permanently disabled with the promise of crippling pain for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, cannabis helped control his chronic pain. It was a medicine that he could produce himself inexpensively and use as an alternative to strong and addictive narcotics. Jason found cannabis was a safer and healthier medical choice to manage his pain. On his physician's advice, Jason obtained his Medical Marijuana Registry card in February 2005. He was in 100% compliance with all the laws and regulations required to use medicinal cannabis in Colorado. According to his physician's recommendation, he had only enough cannabis that was medically necessary to adequately treat his condition.
However, in June 2008, Jason was arrested and charged with felony possession of marijuana by the Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett. Jason's attorney, Rob Corry, has provided DA Garnett with Jason's medical records along with statements from Jason's physicians and therapeutic cannabis experts to prove that Jason is a legitimate patient. But DA Garnett refuses to drop the charges against Jason. Instead, Garnett has let the case drag on for almost a year. This has caused Jason immeasurable physical, emotional and financial harm. Jason must now take expensive and damaging narcotics and pain-blockers to manage his pain. His life has been in limbo since he was arrested, and he has had to attend numerous court appearances. Jason's trial has been set for August.
"Jason Lauve is a law-abiding, hard-working, taxpaying citizen who deals with his excruciating pain in the only way that works for him long-term and how the voters of Colorado intended," says Rob Corry, Jason's attorney, who will be participating in the National Marijuana Forum in Boulder next Sunday to discuss Jason's case.
Corry continues, "The Boulder DA made the wrong decision in failing to prosecute the reckless snowboarder who destroyed Jason's back, and now the Boulder DA is compounding its error by prosecuting Jason when he is only seeking the miracle relief that medical marijuana provides him." Why is DA Garnett so intent on pursuing felony charges against Jason, a legal patient with no previous criminal record? Jason did nothing wrong and has followed the letter of the law at every step.
Citizens should be extremely disturbed by this prosecution of medical patients. The Boulder District Attorney should be focusing on violent crimes and not persecuting patients with serious medical conditions based on their legal choice of medicine.
"What is happening to Jason is happening to patients all over the state," says Timothy Tipton, patient advocate with Rocky Mountain Caregiver Cooperative. "Public officials like the Boulder DA need to educate themselves on how Colorado's Medical Marijuana law is supposed to protect patients from prosecution. Until they do, it's up to concerned citizens to put pressure on their elected officials to uphold the Constitution and stop arresting sick people."
We are asking concerned citizens to call and email Boulder DA Stan Garret and ask him to drop all charges against Jason Lauve and stop prosecuting patients.
Boulder DA Stan Garnett
Phone: 303-441-3798
Email: sgarnett@bouldercounty.org
How the hell can the Boulder DA get away with this? This is a *state* law. It would be one thing if the US Attorney was going after him--still wrong, but "justifiable" under the Federal drug statutes. The Boulder DA is violating his oath of office by prosecuting this case.
Absolutely disgusting.
Posted by: Brian Martinez | April 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Just the facts
we will not be silenced
Fact: They control the crave; from their nicotine patch to their Parkinson drug
Fact: the burning of the natural plant is required in many religions.
Fact: they have used healthcare to eliminate or control a population.
Fact: in the 1970s only 2% of the population had anything to do with illegal drugs 2009 over 50% of the population admits to having something to do with drugs
i. e. weed
Fact: They make designer drugs for their athletics and breathalyzer pills for the Europeans.
Fact: America has the highest jail population in the world and yet 90% of the jail population is drug related
Fact: America has the highest addiction rate in the world
Fact: They openly admit that “these people is as good if not better than most corporate executives” PBS radio
Fact: T. Edison, T. Jefferson, Georg Washington and Henry Ford all had something to do with illegal drugs
Fact: They make excuses for attacking people with cancer and scoliosis as they ignore the will of the people in California.
Fact: America has less than 30 people legally allowed to smoke weed, while Canada has over 1200
Fact: They use lies and propaganda fear and intimidation to keep weed criminal
Fact: They can not keep heavy drugs crime violence and cell phones out of their prisons and yet we are expected to give up our freedom.
Fact: They claim to be exempt from the Ten Commandments lying, cheating and stealing because some pharmaceutical companies have paid for this war.
Fact: They will sabotage, drug, condition, and train people in their attempt to make a Delorian or Marian berry out of someone.
Fact: They sabotage the American free enterprise system and small business as they gut our cities with their crime and violence
Fact: Time magazine points out the true science of weed is being subverted.
Fact: They have a repeated pattern of lying in court subverting the constitution and the laws in order to eliminate these people.
Fact: they are allowed to disrupt the criminal element; with that the pot smoker is then forever a criminal and they will do what ever it takes to make him a criminal.
Fact: The only thing different from the right wing and the talibomb is one is a cult.
Fact: It was Dow chemical who took two kids in N.J. smoking a joint and turned it into a multi billion dollar war against our freedom.
Fact: It was a retired Dow scientist that made the meth recipe.
Fact: They deny a whole population the right of laws as they criminalize them for their genetic, neurological, hereditary, ancestral, natural and religious rights.
Fact: They always try to make an accusation, about something other than weed, unless they can get him to buy or sell large quantities.
Fact: they have high technology weapons that they can inject the people with the crave or their Aids virus.
Fact: more than one black preacher will tell you there are high officials behind their raciest war.
Fact: They take out 6 million dollars in the poor and black neighbors and can account for only 3 million dollars after spending $5000.00 on badges.
Fact: More people are on the streets pushing their heavy drugs while the honest pot dealer is beaten in the ally with their Billy clubs.
Fact: With a touch of a button they can add THC to weed or take it away, making it worthless.
Fact: The newspapers make you believe that the kid was just too lazy to grow his own plant so he had to start selling their drugs
Fact: They can’t even tell a geese’s brain, flying north and south, but we as free Americans are to give up our freedom so they monitor us.
Fact: They tortured, held until he pissed blood the governor of California libertarian candidate who worked to legalize weed, then gave him a chemical substitute for weed and claimed it had nothing to do with weed.
Fact: Their object is to run the people broke and call them crazy or have him rip off 18 quick shops in a three moth time period with the pretext of helping them out.
Fact: With a 90% return rate with their prisons most either forced into their gay agenda or convert to Muslim.
Fact: The people who are subjected to their war, or forced to work for them if they want a reduced sentence and are forced to destroy other decent people who are different.
Fact: They boast on their front page of the newspapers about their chemicals and garbage they produce in their labs to rip off the uneducated.
Fact: They put paraquat in weed knowing that it did nothing but give the people cancer.
Fact: They can give a person an undetectable pain, I. e. john Nash, and the play the Bugs. And criminalize him for barring arms against their harms.
Fact: Their MK ULTRA program was started in the 1960s and only one Canadian has ever been able to prove he was victim.
Fact: The Arabs just like buying up LA because they like being next to the immoral American movie stars.
Fact: The Talibomb was created by the Americans to battle the Russians in Afghanistan.
Fact: Pakistan has the nuclear bomb and close friends with some Americans
Fact: The first one on the no fly list was the green party candidate.
Fact: At 911 the only plane was allowed to fly was the Saudi prince who just happened to be visiting.
Fact: high officials have been known to sell info to the Russians but we hear nothing of all the billions the Arabs have.
Fact: with 999 TV stations out their, if they come after you with the crave you will have no way to get your message out.
Fact: we will not be silenced your national program is going to come to an end.
Fact: science fiction or science fact
now you know some of the facts read about your poetic and religious rights they are after in the book ABOUT CHRISTIANS AND FREEDOM@Amazon.com
Posted by: smoke ing | April 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I think if We The People could get sufficiently upset and riled up over the carrying out of war crimes based upon the ludicrous blaming of "hijackers" for damages which could not possibly have been caused by "airliners", and reclaimed Our government, then smaller outrages such as this would be less likely to occur.
It's (supposed to be) Our government. When it does not work, it's OUR fault.
How come the LP remains as complicitly silent as Reps and Dems regarding such treason? (When Reps won't question Bush's 9/11 confession statements, that reveals that they put party loyalty ahead of loyalty to the Constitution -- which is treason. But when Dems cannot be made to notice Bush's 9/11 confession statements, the betrays the fraudulence of the entire U.S. 2-party political system...)
Beware the military-industrial-media complex: A nation that is of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations is a fascist nation.
Posted by: student of logic | July 09, 2009 at 03:34 PM