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Posted by FoM on February 21, 2002 at 07:22:31 PT By Lois Pearlman, Argus-Courier Staff Source: Argus-Courier 
A Petaluma man who was acquitted last year in Sonoma County court on charges of growing marijuana for sale was arrested Feb. 12 in Canada as part of a DEA crackdown on a San Francisco medical marijuana club.Kenneth Hayes of Petaluma was one of four people associated with the Sixth Street Harm Reduction Clinic in San Francisco who was arrested and jailed in a case that federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials say was linked to marijuana trafficking between the U.S. and Canada. The other three were HRC director Richard Watts, Oakland marijuana expert Ed Rosenthal, and James Halloran of Oakland who grows marijuana for medical use. Hayes was released by a Canadian judge without bail and could face extradition by U.S. authorities. He is scheduled to appearing court Feb. 27. At the same time Hayes was being arrested in Canada, federal officials found over 600 marijuana plants growing indoors on a property King owns in the Liberty Valley and 178 plants on a parcel he rents in Petaluma, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office, Matt Jacobs. Hayes was charged with one count of maintaining a place for cultivating or manufacturing marijuana and two counts of cultivating or manufacturing marijuana. Last year he was acquitted of charges that he was growing marijuana for sale in Petaluma. Hayes said his operations provided marijuana for over 1,000 patients at the Harm Reduction Clinic, which legally dispenses pot to patients who have approval under California law. But the Sonoma County deputy district attorney who prosecuted him in the case, Carla Clayes, said her office discovered that Hayes had several thousand dollars in bank accounts, but could not use the evidence because it was too late in the case. Clayes said Hayes paints himself as a martyr to the medical marijuana cause, but he appears to be profiting from his marijuana growing. Sonoma County medical marijuana advocate Doc Knapp said following the arrests last week he fielded calls from dozens local medical marijuana patients who feared that they might be in danger. Sonoma County has hundreds of medical marijuana users who are sanctioned under state law and five medical marijuana clubs that legally dispense the drug. Local medical marijuana advocates say it is significant that the arrests occurred the same day that DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson was speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, assuring locals that medical marijuana busts were a low priority for the federal government. President George W. Bush has recently announced that he will step up the war against drugs. While medical use of marijuana with a doctor's approval is legal under California law, all marijuana use is illegal under federal law. Source: Petaluma Argus-Courier (CA) Related Articles & Web Sites: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Club Federal War Against The Sick Pot Club Crackdown Continues 3 Nabbed in Pot Bust Post Bail Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #3 posted by Rainbow on February 21, 2002 at 19:39:30 PT |
| I would never recommend sending samples to the axis of evils (asscroft, hempy Hutch, greenie schrub and huh walters) but hey if they want it so much, might be time. The british are sending Free Colin roaches to the Greater Manchester police as an act of civil disobediance. Sounds like something of a great idea. That is if you even have a roach to send. They are loosing, time for meditation directed at them. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by xxdr_zombiexx on February 21, 2002 at 15:06:37 PT |
| Mr. HAyes has spoken an acted in a way that indicates he doesn't believe the same thing about cannabis the Federal Government does. Thus he is under extra scrutiny. He was arrested and tried last year...guilty until proven innocent. he was aquitted...yay! Now its time to see if he can be proven innocent again. He was caught helping people legally obtain cannabis under California law. Thus, this time Mr Hayes actually represents the Federal Government using him to wage a battle over the supremacy of Federal -vs- state law. This is the whole dynamic behing drug-testing, by the way: the existence of the drug test is living proof we are guilty until proven innocent. Once we have left "their sight"(whomever that may be - most likely the Federal Government) we are again "potentially guilty". Why not just test everybody's pee everyday. Hundreds of millions of pee tests everyday. Its the only way to be sure. That would highlight the entire goofy concept of a "drug free empire...I mean county..." REQUIRES voiding the US Constitutionand is uniformly unfair to eveybody, That would be another great payoff for the so-called "war on drugs". Wake up and smell the fascism, for it is nothing other FREEDOM ENDURES [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by DdC on February 21, 2002 at 10:16:55 PT |
| "Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do." "The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." Illegal aliens are a problem in America. Ask any Indian. We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been. Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs. The categories were once reversed. Opiates were legal in America before the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, and members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned against alcohol during the day, drank their valued "women's tonics" at night, products laced with laudanum (tincture of opium). I could abide---though I would still oppose---our current intransigence if we applied the principle of total interdiction to all harmful drugs. But how can we possibly defend our current policy based on a dichotomy that encourages us to view one class of substances as a preeminent scourge while the two most dangerous and life destroying substances by far, alcohol and tobacco, form a second class advertised in neon on every street corner of urban America? And why, moreover, should heroin be viewed with horror while chemical cognates that are no different from heroin than lemonade is from iced tea perform work of enormous compassion by relieving the pain of terminal cancer patients in their last days? The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. D.E.A.th Deceptions PM Puppet Korpses America Flag [ Post Comment ] |
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