Seriously ill cancer patient may face jail time for medical marijuana

[chill_wind]

Seriously ill cancer patient may face jail time for medical marijuana
By Scot Kersgaard | 09.09.11 | 5:36 am


Bob Crouse has leukemia. He used to have medical marijuana. Then the police came to his house and took it away. Today, he faces felony charges for cultivating marijuana with the intent to distribute.

He has a medical marijuana card as well as a doctor’s recommendation to grow as many as 75 plants. He needs that much, he says, because smoking the occasional joint or eating the occasional brownie has never been known to cure cancer. What many proponents of medical marijuana believe does cure cancer–at least in some cases–is the oil that can be created by boiling a pound or more of bud at a time and reducing that pound to about one ounce of oil. Many in the medical marijuana field swear that ingesting about a gram a day of this oil–commonly known as phoenix tears–can have a profound effect on cancer and some other serious medical conditions.

Buying medical marijuana in such quantities is not only nearly impossible, but is also prohibitively expensive for many ill people. Hence the grow your own culture of phoenix tears users.

“Buying it was not an option,” Crouse says.

“I was just trying to grow the quantity of medicine I needed to medicate myself. I never had any intent to distribute,” Crouse told the Colorado Independent. “They think I was part of an underground network, but I think I was within my rights. They thought I was a criminal. I tell you it was real intimidating when they showed up with eight or ten agents. I’m a sixty-three-year-old leukemia patient fighting for the right to fight for my life.

more on his story:
http://coloradoindependent.com/96111/seriously-ill-cancer-patient-may-face-jail-time-for-medical-marijuana

[bullwinkle428]

1. Fucking disgraceful. The plummeting levels of empathy on the part

of some in this country will ultimately be its downfall.

[indepat]

13. Encapsulates just how sick the laws of this society have become

:patriot:

[muffin1]

2. K&R nt

[amborin]

3. K&R

[abq e streeter]

4. Disgusting is not a strong enough word

[Upton]

5. If he had a card good for 75 plants..

what exactly did he do wrong? I read the article and it doesn't go into specifics..

[chill_wind]

8. Paperwork foul-up, it sounds like.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/07/medical_marijuana_bob_crouse_prosecuted_paperwork.php

[Upton]

11. Interesting..thanks

this war on medical cannabis users is so unfair, and so lacking in compassion, it's hard for me to think of a word to accurately describe how I feel about it without offending someone here..and the fact that it's happening under a Democratic president just makes it all the more troubling..

[Le Taz Hot]

6. This is unconscionable.

There's no justification for this. None. Coloradans: What's up? You're such a cool state in every other way. What's the politics behind this?

[aquart]

7. Soulless insanity.

[chill_wind]

9. Caretaker for his 90 year old mother

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/08/medical_marijuana_rally_bob_crouse_paperwork_snafu.php

Unable to work since diagnosed with leukemia 4 years and is going to have a hard time paying for his own legal defense.

[RainDog]

10. so terribly sad that cancer patients have to suffer b/c of stupid laws, too.

kick and rec

if the DEA prosecutes him and puts him in jail and he dies from his cancer - the DEA is basically guilty of murder of an innocent man. NO different than the police in Saudi Arabia stoning a woman to death for having a lover - this issue is about social control, not rational law.

[Blue Owl]

12. The good people are coming to take your medicine away

God Bless America.

:sarcasm: