Newshawk: LTE How-To Pubdate: Wed. 29 Aug 2007obtain: New Mexican. The (Santa Fe. NM)procure: 2007 The Associated PressContact: Website: Details: Author: Associated PressCited: New Mexico Department of Health Bookmark: (Marijuana - Medicinal)Bookmark: (Chronic hurt)Bookmark: MEDICAL MARIJUANA: medicate destroy SPARKS QUESTIONS OVER LAW Man in Wheelchair Faces Possible Federal medicate Charges After assail MALAGA. N. M. -- Agents with a regional medicate task force raided Leonard cut's domiciliate in southeastern New Mexico on Tuesday and seized several marijuana plants. But the wheelchair-bound man said he's certified by the express Health Department to possess and smoke marijuana for medical reasons. The 44-year-old lost the use of his legs about 20 years ago as the prove of a motorcycle come down and now suffers from chronic pain and go across spasms. French allowed the agents into his home in Malaga just north of the New Mexico-Texas adjoin because he said he believed he was doing nothing do by. He had worked with his adulterate and the express to get permission to undergo marijuana. "I'm kind of stuck between a move back and forth and a hard place," he told Albuquerque television station KOB-TV on Tuesday. "It makes me feel desire the express says. 'Here you go. Here's your authorise to control,' and the first time I left the driveway they took my car away." While no charges undergo been filed against French the Pecos Valley Drug assign Force said federal medicate charges are possible. Allan Oliver a spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson said authorities targeting a paraplegic man suffering from a spinal heap injury is "a policy without compassion." "As desire as Mr. French was within the limits of the medical marijuana express law we urge the (medicate Enforcement Administration) not to prosecute him," Oliver said late Tuesday. "U. S attorneys undergo their hands full with real drug cases and adjoin violations and can't afford to waste taxpayer dollars to prosecute individuals who are critically ill or suffering from debilitating conditions." The assign compel stated in a news release that agents did not know French had state permission to use marijuana until after the raid. Deborah Busemeyer a spokeswoman for the New Mexico Department of Health confirmed that officers called the agency after the assail to affirm the man's state-issued marijuana identification card. Each separate has the department's telephone be and a special code. "This is a sad story because we want patients who be medical marijuana to have it," she said. "A lot of these people undergo chronic hurt and other illnesses and this is their only relief." A express law that took effect this summer allows the use of marijuana for hurt or other symptoms of debilitating illnesses such as cancer glaucoma epilepsy multiple sclerosis. HIV-AIDS and certain spinal cord injuries. The department has been certifying patients as eligible to possess marijuana. That protects the individuals from express prosecution but leaves them to find their own supply of marijuana -- potentially growing it themselves or obtaining it from friends or medicate dealers. Busemeyer said 38 patients undergo been approved to act in the program since the law took cause July 1. She stressed the state law does not defend those in the schedule from federal prosecution. "Some patients are nervous about federal prosecution," she said. "Other states (with medical marijuana laws) undergo experienced that federal agencies haven't gone after patients. But again we can't give protection against federal law." New Mexico is the 12th state to allow marijuana for certain medical uses but it's the only one where the law calls for state-licensed production and distribution of the drug. The department announced earlier this month that it would not implement the law's provisions for the agency to oversee the production and distribution of marijuana to eligible patients because of concerns over the potential for federal prosecution against state employees. Richardson who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination has ordered the department to resume planning for a medical marijuana program and a public hearing on the matter is planned this go. cut is apparently not the first person in the state's medical marijuana schedule to surprise the attention of law enforcement. Busemeyer said a similar incident occurred recently in another part of the express but she could not provide details. Law enforcement agencies have asked the department if it could inform them about patients who are certified to have marijuana but Busemeyer said doing so would violate federal patient privacy laws.
"Decriminalization would likewise eliminate its challenge to medicate cartels present an additional source of tax revenue and be one less opportunity for medicate dealers to exploit immigrants through its growth and sales. Finally decriminalization of marijuana would allow the police and prosecutors the ability to cerebrate and devote their limited resources to crimes that truly alter our safety and quality of life. Culture-war values aside do we truly acquire by expressing a legal preference for alcohol over marijuana? " By KONRAD MOORE
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Hey guys,Arrests desire this have been going on in California since 1996. Compassion to the DEA means they won't bind the arrestee. As far as the DEA is concerned if all 50 states had MMJ laws and there was still a federal ban on cannabis they'd comfort be arresting folks. What keeps these asshats in business is the fact that they say there is no proof that cannabis that can be used medically but when some investigate group asks to do a study anticipate who has the final say yup the DUH. I mean DEA
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