Marijuana outlets raided

Larry Hamilton, who has terminal cancer among a host of ailments, watched from his wheelchair in dismay Thursday as federal agents shut down THC Pharmacy, the South Hill dispensary that provided him with marijuana.

Hamilton, who undergoes chemotherapy, said he suffers without medical marijuana.

“It clears up the pain and it helps with the nausea,” he said. “It’s irritating. We passed a law in this state to make it legal.”

THC Pharmacy, 1108 S. Perry St., was one of several dispensaries raided throughout the day across Spokane on Thursday. A small band of protesters also gathered outside, chanting “DEA go away” and “We’re patients, not criminals.”

“They just walked in the door and said, ‘You’re busted, everybody sit down,’ ” said Cassandra Wright, a THC Pharmacy employee and mother of Charles Wright, who co-owns the shop with John Vivian. “They walked in with their chests all puffed up and in numbers.”

She said authorities seized computers, phones, receipts, patient files, marijuana, books and the laminator.

“They took everything,” said Wright, who works on the computers in the shop. “They took my personal property like I’m some kind of drug dealer.”

Other shops are being targeted as well, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Rice.

“I can’t say how many places,” he said. “Because of its ongoing nature, we can’t comment any further. We don’t expect to release anything more today.”

However, medical marijuana advocates say agents also raided Evergreen Medical, 12004 N. Market St., Club Compassion, 1004 E. Bridgeport Ave., Human Connection, 5315 N. Market St., and Medical Herb Providers, 306 N. Freya St.

The U.S. attorney’s office sent dispensary operators notices earlier this month advising them to shut down or risk federal enforcement action. Many of the approximately 40 medical marijuana dispensaries reportedly complied, but not all.

Today’s action marks the latest development in an ongoing battle over medical marijuana.

Washington voters overwhelmingly approved medicinal use of marijuana in 1998, but the ballot measure left open the question of how doctor-approved users can legally obtain their pot. Advocates say the state law allows for dispensaries under its “caretaker” provision, but a Spokane County Superior Court jury rejected that argument last month in the first drug-trafficking trial of its kind in Washington.

Additionally, federal prosecutors note that while state law allows for medical use of marijuana, federal law still considers all marijuana possession and use illegal.

Spokane police spokeswoman Jennifer DeRuwe said city officers assisted federal agents in a support role involving marijuana dispensaries.

The raids came as marijuana advocates were hosting a training session for dispensary operators on how to deal with law enforcement raids. The training session, being conducted at the downtown Spokane Public Library, was interrupted by the announcement that raids were under way.

Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana research and advocacy group, called on dispensary operators at the training to exercise their rights if they are raided by not consenting to searches and declining to speak to authorities without a lawyer present.

“If you are growing medical marijuana, you are committing civil disobedience,” Sherer said to a room of about 40 people. “There are very real consequences.”

“Our opposition is moral opposition,” she said.

After the raids, a group of medical marijuana providers, users and advocates met at a Spokane law firm to discuss their plan of action. A national call to action will take place in cities across the U.S. Monday at noon, including in Spokane in front of the federal courthouse on Riverside Avenue.

“This is an opportunity to show that this did not shake you,” Sherer said.

She also implored advocates to organize and to meet with local, state and federal elected officials. Kris Hermes, spokesman with Americans for Safe Access, which tracks dispensary raids, said the federal government is “using the leverage of their enforcement tactics to intimidate elected officials to vote a certain way on impending medical marijuana bills,” such as the one Gregoire is expected to veto. There have been hundreds of raids in at least six states that allow medical marijuana, he said.

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Medical marijuana co-op didn’t violate order, judge says

TEMECULA: Medical marijuana co-op didn’t violate order, judge says

Cooperative Patients’ Services, which operated out of rented space in the southern end of Old Town Front Street, had been suspected of violating a temporary restraining order issued in early March that prohibited the operation from distributing marijuana in the city.

The judge determined on Tuesday that the court order had not been violated because it was not in effect when the deputy bought $50 worth of marijuana at the establishment in early April.

“What the court said was the temporary restraining order expired on March 30,” said Peter Pierce, who represents the city in the case.

City officials say Cooperative Patients violates Temecula’s ban on medical marijuana dispensaries.

The establishment is under a court order that barred operators from making marijuana available anywhere in the city, operating without a valid certificate of occupancy or tax permit and “maintaining public nuisances” on its property.

Lawyers for the Cooperative Patients appealed that ruling, which delayed enforcement so an appeal could be filed with the California Fourth District Court of Appeal.

Pierce could not say when the Court of Appeal would act on the request.

Also, the Fontana Patients Collective Association, which had been located on Jefferson Avenue, has closed.

Temecula City Attorney Peter Thorson said attorneys for the collective asked that a temporary injunction barring the establishment from operating in the city become permanent.

“We understand that it’s closed,” Thorson said.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America (behind only alcohol and tobacco), and has been used by nearly 100 million Americans. According to government surveys, some 25 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use. Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it.

Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, “The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. … It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat … than alcohol or tobacco.”

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NORML supports the removal of all penalties for the private possession andresponsible use of marijuana by adults, including cultivation for personal use, and casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. This policy, known asdecriminalization, removes the consumer — the marijuana smoker — from the criminal justice system.

More than 30 percent of the U.S. population lives under some form ofmarijuana decriminalization, and according to government and academic studies, these laws have not contributed to an increase in marijuana consumption nor negatively impacted adolescent attitudes toward drug use.

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Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers an estimated $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 858,000 individuals per year — far more than the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

YEAR	MARIJUANA ARRESTS
2009	858,408
2008	847,864
2007	872,721
2006	829,625
2005	786,545
2004	771,608
2003	755,187
2002	697,082
2001	723,627
2000	734,498
1999	704,812
1998	682,885
1997	695,200
1996	641,642
1995	588,963
1994	499,122
1993	380,689
1992	342,314
1991	287,850
1990	326,850

Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 88 percent,758,593 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining99,815 individuals were charged with “sale/manufacture,” a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger.

NORML supports the eventual development of a legally controlled market for marijuana, where consumers could buy marijuana for personal use from a safe legal source. This policy, generally known as legalization, exists on various levels in a handful of European countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland, both of which enjoy lower rates of adolescent marijuana use than the U.S. Such a system would reduce many of the problems presently associated with the prohibition of marijuana, including the crime, corruption and violence associated with a “black market.”

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Medical Use
Marijuana, or cannabis, as it is more appropriately called, has been part of humanity’s medicine chest for almost as long as history has been recorded.

Of all the negative consequences of marijuana prohibition, none is as tragic as the denial of medicinal cannabis to the tens of thousands of patients who could benefit from its therapeutic use.

Modern research suggests that cannabis is a valuable aid in the treatment of a wide range of clinical applications.[4] These include pain relief — particularly of neuropathic pain (pain from nerve damage) — nausea, spasticity, glaucoma, and movement disorders.[5] Marijuana is also a powerful appetite stimulant, specifically for patients suffering from HIV, the AIDS wasting syndrome, or dementia.[6] Emerging research suggests that marijuana’s medicinal properties may protect the body against some types of malignant tumors[7] and are neuroprotective.

Currently, more than 60 U.S. and international health organizations support granting patients immediate legal access to medicinal marijuana under a physician’s supervision.

See our Medical Use section for more information.

Legal Issues
Driven by the Drug War, the U.S. prison population is six to ten times as high as most Western European nations. The United States is a close second only to Russia in its rate of incarceration per 100,000 people. In 2005, more than 786,000 people were arrested in this country for marijuana-related offenses alone.

Marijuana prohibition causes more problems than it solves, and ruins thousands more lives than it supposedly tries to save. The NORML Legal Committee provides legal support and assistance to victims of the current marijuana laws. NORML also monitors developments in state and federal law, and files appellate and amicus curiae (”friend of the court”) briefs in cases which may affect the interpretation of existing marijuana laws, or which will, hopefully, change them.

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Industrial Hemp
Hemp is a distinct variety of the plant species cannabis sativa L. that contains minimal (less than 1%) amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. It is a tall, slender, fibrous plant similar to flax or kenaf. Various parts of the plant can be utilized in the making of textiles, paper, paints, clothing, plastics, cosmetics, foodstuffs, insulation, animal feed and other products.

Hemp produces a much higher yield per acre than do common substitutes such as cotton and requires few pesticides. In addition, hemp has an average growing cycle of only 100 days and leaves the soil virtually weed-free for the next planting.

The hemp plant is currently harvested for commercial purposes in over 30 nations, including Canada, Japan and the European Union. Although it grows wild across much of America and presents no public health or safety threat, hemp is nevertheless routinely uprooted and destroyed by law enforcement. Each year, approximately 98% of all the marijuana eliminated by the DEA’s “Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program” is actually hemp.

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Hearing on Temecula medical marijuana co-op postponed

Hearing on Temecula medical marijuana co-op postponed

Superior Court Judge Jacqueline C. Jackson extended a temporary restraining order against Cooperative Patients’ Services that bars the facility from distributing marijuana anywhere in Temecula. Before that, she rescheduled the hearing with another judge.

As a Riverside County deputy district attorney, Jackson, who was appointed to the bench in December, wrote a report on medical marijuana. She also represented the DA’s office in a court case about medical marijuana dispensaries.

Although California voters approved legalizing marijuana for medicinal uses, cities including Temecula have banned dispensaries within their borders.

J. David Nick, an attorney for Cooperative Patients’ Services, asked that Jackson not hear the case. The judge agreed and the hearing is now set for 9:30 a.m. April 7 before Judge Craig G. Reimer in the Riverside County Historic Courthouse.

The hearing will determine whether Temecula officials get a court order against what they describe as an illegal dispensary.

The city attorney’s office filed the request earlier this month seeking to bar the establishment from making marijuana available, operating without a valid certificate of occupancy or tax permit and “maintaining public nuisances” on its property.

The establishment’s landlord also is named in the complaint.

The establishment’s leaders insist it is not a dispensary, but a non-profit, agricultural co-op in which legitimate medical marijuana patients exchange the drug with one another. The say state law gives them the right to operate.

Outside the courtroom, Nick said he wasn’t sure if he’ll challenge the extension.

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