Sent in by Colorado 420 Coalition and I felt like it might be a talk of interest to some of the readers of this blog:
For immediate release: July 27, 2009
Free Talk:
Medical Marijuana: How Patients and Caregivers Can Protect Themselves
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 pm
University of Colorado in Boulder
University Memorial Center
Room UMC 247
Directions: The UMC is on Broadway and Euclid. The closest parking is in the Euclid Autopark Parking Garage just down Euclid. UMC Room 247 is just down the hall from the UMC Reception Desk on the second floor.
Click here for more information and a link to directions:
http://www.colorado420.com/news/freetalk.patients.protect1.html
[Boulder, CO] --Jason Lauve, a disabled Boulder County resident who is being prosecuted by Boulder County for legal possession of medicinal cannabis, will speak at a public talk on Tuesday along with his attorney, Rob Corry and patient advocate Timothy Tipton from the Rocky Mountain Caregivers Cooperative.
Jason's case is important for all Colorado medical marijuana patients, since Jason was in 100% compliance with all the laws and regulations required to use medicinal cannabis in Colorado, yet he was still arrested and prosecuted. The Boulder District Attorney's office wants to make an example of Jason and in the process create fear among the thousands of sick and dying people that benefit safely from medicinal cannabis in Colorado every day. Jason's trial has been set for Monday, August 3 in Boulder District Court at the Boulder County Justice Center on 6th and Canyon.
Cannabis is a Constitutional right for Colorado citizens. Article 18, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution, known as Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law, allows patients with debilitating medical conditions to use cannabis as medicine if their physician recommends it. Jason was arrested when the Boulder County Drug Task Force raided his home in last summer. Jason presented the police with his valid Medical Marijuana Registry ID card issued by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which is supposed to make him exempt from the state's criminal laws regarding cannabis possession. Instead of respecting his legal right to use cannabis as medicine, Boulder County destroyed his garden, seized all his medicine, arrested him, and charged him with felony marijuana possession.
Jason suffers from severe chronic pain from an accident at Eldora Ski Area in 2004, in which he was seriously injured by a snowboarder. The accident left Jason with crippling spinal injuries. He is in severe constant pain and uses cannabis as an inexpensive and safer alternative to the dangerous and addictive narcotics and nerve blockers that most chronic pain patients are forced to take.
According to his physician's recommendation, he had only enough cannabis that was medically necessary to adequately treat his condition. Jason's attorney, Rob Corry, has provided Boulder DA Stan Garnett with Jason's complete 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.
"The Boulder District Attorney should be protecting patients' rights under the Constitution, not prosecuting and punishing them for their legal choice in medicine," says Rob Corry.
The talk is free and open to the public.
The talk is being sponsored by the Colorado 420 Coalition and [email protected]
For more information:
Colorado 420 Coalition
Web: http://www.colorado420.com/
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