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  Judge Returns Satterfields' Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on May 07, 2002 at 09:53:19 PT
By Harold Kruger, Appeal-Democrat 
Source: Appeal-Democrat 

medical Clutching bags of marijuana, Doyle and Belinda Satterfield left the Yuba County Courthouse with their medicine Monday. "I'm glad it's over," said Belinda Satterfield as she placed the marijuana in the trunk of the couple's car.

"The people have spoken," said Doyle Satterfield. The end to Yuba County's medical marijuana controversy came a little after 9 a.m. when Judge James Curry called the Satterfields' case. He asked if they had a written authorization to use the marijuana as medicine.

The Satterfields, through their lawyers, handed Curry two letters. After perusing the documents, Curry called for a 10-minute recess.

The judge, the lawyers and the Satterfields then left the courtroom.

A few minutes later, the Satterfields, accompanied by attorneys Justin Scott and Jud Waggoman, came into the courthouse lobby with the marijuana, walked outside and headed for the car.

Curry, in a later interview, said he had given the pot to the Satterfields.

"I was the only one involved in that process," he said.

Curry said he intends to write letters to the California Judges Association and to the Administrative Office of the Courts, asking them to prod the Legislature to clarify the medical marijuana situation.

The judge said he also hopes that state legislators will discuss this situation with members of Congress to ensure that the federal and state governments "get together on the same page."

If this situation arises again in Yuba County, he said, "We're going to analyze the law as it exists and make an appropriate ruling."

The Satterfields, meanwhile, were just happy their situation was resolved.

"I just want to thank our lawyers for doing a great job, for sticking by us," Belinda Satterfield said, adding, "The law is the law."

The law in this case is Proposition 215, which allows marijuana for medical purposes in California.

Doyle Satterfield needs the marijuana for his insomnia and arthritis. His wife uses it because she has chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.

The Satterfields were arrested in August and charged with illegal marijuana cultivation. In January, Yuba County prosecutors dropped the charges after the Satterfields showed that their pot was their medicine.

Last week, Curry, citing Proposition 215, ordered Sheriff Virginia Black to return the pot - 37 plants and 41/2 pounds of dried material.

Black balked, saying the federal government classifies marijuana as a narcotic, and it would be illegal for her to release it.

The standoff lasted until Friday, when the court order was modified to allow Black to release the marijuana to the court.

Harold Kruger reports on people and events happening in Yuba and Sutter counties and courts.

Complete Title: Pot Fight Ends: Judge Returns Satterfields' Marijuana

Source: Appeal-Democrat (CA)
Author: Harold Kruger, Appeal-Democrat
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2002
Copyright: 2002 Appeal-Democrat
Website: http://www.appeal-democrat.com/
Contact: laura_nicholson@link.freedom.com

Related Articles & Web Site:

Medical Marijuana Information Links
http://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htm

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http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12726.shtml

SF Judge Fuels Yuba Pot Fight
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12714.shtml


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Comment #20 posted by Ethan Russo MD on May 30, 2002 at 13:43:00 PT:

Reagan Tapes
Did anyone ever receive these? I'd love to be able to cite those quotations. Please E-mail: erusso@blackfoot.net

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Comment #19 posted by kaptinemo on May 08, 2002 at 12:11:04 PT:

Good to see you back, Schmeff
Been a while. Welcome home :)

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Comment #18 posted by schmeff on May 08, 2002 at 09:55:48 PT
A "recommendation" should suffice
If you can't take a "prescription" to a pharmacy and get it filled, I can't see as how you're dealing with a drug.

Since the 8 yr. old (below) is using herbal therapy, it would not be appropriate or legal to "prescribe" the herb.

A doctor wouldn't prescribe tea for a patient, s/he would recommend it.

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Comment #17 posted by Jose Melendez on May 08, 2002 at 05:46:04 PT:

kneejerk administration: medicine denied
from:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n879/a03.html?397

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MARIJUANA THERAPY FOR AN 8-YEAR-OLD

Life just got more complicated for an 8-year-old boy and his mother who has had great success battling his mental disorders with a doctor-approved marijuana therapy.

The youngster's medical condition has improved so dramatically that he can now attend public school, but school officials won't permit a school nurse to administer his cannabis capsules and won't let him take the pills himself on campus, the child's mother said.

"Other kids get their medication," she complained.  But the drug her son needs daily at 1 p.m.  must be delivered by her personally, off the school grounds, she said.

"It makes him feel he's not normal, that he's being treated differently.  He wonders why he's being targeted.  He just wants to be normal," she said.

She hopes to persuade school officials to change their minds and allow the capsules to be given on campus.

The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the boy's identity, has been treating her son with medical cannabis for the past year, at home and at the private school he had been attending.

But in April, they moved.  She presented her son's new school with the required permission slip for students who need medication at school, a form she and the boy's doctor signed.

The day before the boy was to report to his new school, however, a message left on the family answering machine informed the mother that her son's recommended medication could not be administered on campus.

So, she says, she's been forced to drive a round trip of 26 miles each noontime to remove him from the school grounds, give him his capsules, and return him to class.

Vicki Barber, superintendent of the El Dorado County Office of Education, said she state law permits schools to dispense drugs only when they are formally "prescribed" by a physician.  The boy's doctor made a "recommendation," and there is a difference, Barber added, between a "prescription" and a doctor's "recommendation."

Because the district has a zero-tolerance policy, students are not permitted to have in their possession or to self-administer drugs of any kind, she said. 




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Comment #16 posted by Jose Melendez on May 07, 2002 at 16:54:28 PT
someone pinch me...

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."    
Black Elk - Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, 1863-1950


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Comment #15 posted by FoM on May 07, 2002 at 15:43:07 PT
Just a Note
I haven't found anymore articles to post but I have over 25 I think on the Million Marijuana March on this link. I need to go off line again because a bad storm is brewing. I'll be back.

http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

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Comment #14 posted by FoM on May 07, 2002 at 15:39:21 PT
null
Thank You! That will be great!!!

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Comment #13 posted by Ethan Russo MD on May 07, 2002 at 15:34:03 PT:

Sound Bites
That will be great to have!

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Comment #12 posted by null on May 07, 2002 at 15:19:03 PT
took the bait
i couldn't resist. I *have* to hear that Reagan quote for myself so I went ahead and ordered those CDs. I'm thinking I might be able to use a soundbite or two in a short film I am planning called "This is Propaganda!" (In big happy 50's gameshow font). Anyway, when I get the CDs in I will mp3 the most interesting clips so folks here at CN can hear the goods too!

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Comment #11 posted by E_Johnson on May 07, 2002 at 14:51:18 PT
Where do I send my donation?
it would be tremendous if NORML could run a campaign in D.C. with a quote from these Reagan archives

Could life actually be that sweet?

8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)



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Comment #10 posted by E_Johnson on May 07, 2002 at 14:49:39 PT
They use teenagers to buy drugs for them but...
This prissiness that law enforcement people are exhibiting over distributing medical marijuana back to the people they took it from is very baffling given that they routinely get directly involved in distributing drugs themselves when they go undercover to fight the Drug War.

They even induce minors to use and buy and sell drugs in order to make a bust.

But I guess that's all legal according to their rules.

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Comment #9 posted by null on May 07, 2002 at 14:18:16 PT
Reaganites and Clintonites
wow... it would be tremendous if NORML could run a campaign in D.C. with a quote from these Reagan archives. Soooooo many Republicans define the very word by Reagan. They should run a similar add featuring the Bill Clinton quote from his Rolling Stone interview (right before he left office in the Dec 28 2000 issue) in which he said marijuana should be decriminalized and "we really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment" of drug users."

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Comment #8 posted by Jose Melendez on May 07, 2002 at 14:18:11 PT:

Buried truth grows. -jm
I am so happy to read this article and these posts... I had forgotten about the Reagan pre-presidential pro pot plank*... Sounds like Bloomberg took a similar course, I wonder if those arrested at the Million Marijuana March will be forced to collect less under newly manufactured NYC litigation cap rules...

*      :)



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Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on May 07, 2002 at 13:13:22 PT
The Satterfield's
They should give Sheriff Black a nice big bud. Sheriff Black can smoke it if she wants, or she can give it back. She needs some medical marijuana after her ordeal. She was driven to distraction. The need to sympathize with people in law enforcement is important. They are between a rock and a hard place. They are peace officers, and need to act that way. The potential for escalated tensions was thwarted; justice prevailed. Keeping the peace will be much easier after the drug war ends.

The problem was resolved peacefully. More of that is needed.

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Comment #6 posted by el_toonces on May 07, 2002 at 12:46:55 PT:

I would like those ads very much....
...if they showed R.R. and showed his words from the transcript!

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Comment #5 posted by E_Johnson on May 07, 2002 at 11:51:00 PT
The system of checks and balances in government
When I was a kid learning about civics I thought that was a really appealing aspect of American democracy, that the grownups would admit that they didn't have ultimate wisdom and made a system that could disagree with itself and not let everyone in government do anything they wanted.

I'm glad to see that some judges are still playing an active role in that system.

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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on May 07, 2002 at 11:32:22 PT:

Oops upside the head...the RIGHT head, this time
When I was going through Basic, I had to take mine at an 'overflow' base...which turned out to be an MP training post. So, naturally, the DI's were used to training troops to be MPs. And the inevitable marching songs and doubletime chants reflected that. The all-time 'favorite' was 'Oops upside the head'...which was quite dirty in content, so don't ask me to repeat it.

It had to do with busting 'dirtbags'...who were born masochists...because they always seemed to do something that required repeated application of one's nightsticks to their craniums, in the general area of the temples. Hence the title.

The purpose of this exercise was to modify behavior in the most painful way possible.

Sheriff Black's own actions in this matter have proven once again that not all 'dirtbags' wear 'black hats'. Some of them wear uniforms and badges. But like their civilian dirbag relatives, it would seem that they suffer both from masochism and learning disabilities tied to language deficiencies. Perhaps a new form of dyslexia, which affects only arrogant LEO's. No matter; Sheriff Black has received the 'oops upside the head' that she sought to perform on the Satterfields.

But there is something more important than one obstreperous LEO's come-uppance: the Feds were denied their prize by two magistrates that would not sign their precious seizure warrants. Freddie the Fed has, by his proxy sheriff getting smacked with her own nightstick, caught one across the mouth as well. Notice how quiet they are? Usually they crow whenever they win; you could hear a pin drop from their camp, right now. Rather embarassing to promise their cat's-paws success...and then drop the ball in a spectularly sloppy fashion. Makes other LEO's considering 'cooperating' with the Feds to screw their own constituents think twice.

Or, they too may feel that legal nightstick land...right where they keep what they should be using for thinking.



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Comment #3 posted by Ethan Russo MD on May 07, 2002 at 11:07:10 PT:

Next NORML Ad?
We need that transcript! If you liked the Bloomberg ad, can you imagine impact if the "Great Communicator" had his poster spread around with pro-cannabis slogans?

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Comment #2 posted by p4me on May 07, 2002 at 11:06:23 PT
The war has been won...
but the battle goes on. The DE2 in Bournemouth will be closing. The landlord went to court and the ruling calls for the DE to get their fixtures and furniture out within 7 days. This is no real setback to the movement of course not that the customers are without a place.

I copied the thought from the DE messageboards about the war being won but the battle goes on. How could I not feel that about medical marijuana in this country? Two thirds of the country are for medical marijuana so the war is won. Maybe with recent converts that is three-fourths of Americans are for medical marijuana. After America learns that Alaskans have voted for complete legalization this November the majority of Americans will come to see things in a different way.

You know that big poll that comes out in July or so every year that gets all the recognition? It said 34% were for legalization. That was before all the events in Europe and Tom and Rollie and the raids on the compassion clubs in California. That number has got to be 40% this year and 50% by July 2003.

I cannot understand why there is no NORML poll every month. Couldn't NORML call 100 people a month and ask them a few questions. They ought to be calling a 100 people a week in every state. They spent a half a million on the Bloomberg ads and it was money well spent. How about spending the next money setting up a monthly poll for all states. Their are no other poll numbers out there that I can see. Not even the Lindesmith website has any numbers. By having a NORML Poll every month it would help spread the recognition of the NORML Organization but when everyone is painting pictures with numbers, we need a painter we can trust.

Look at all the polls for Busch: http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm/ and where are the ones for marijuana?

Starve the economy and have a thrifty meal. VAAI

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Comment #1 posted by FoM on May 07, 2002 at 10:50:45 PT
Reagan Wanted Marijuana Legalized
Newshawk: SKneiper
Source: NewsMax.com
Published: May 6, 2002
Website: http://www.NewsMax.com

In newly released audiotapes of Ronald Reagan's broadcast commentaries, Reagan made clear his view that individuals should be allowed to use marijuana if they wanted to.

The Reagan broadcasts come from the days before Reagan became president and were believed to be lost.

But in the new audio set "Reagan In His Own Voice" the unedited version of Reagan's most controversial broadcasts are now available.

In one broadcast, Reagan declared it was an individual's choice if they chose to smoke marijuana, as long as they were aware of the health risks.

Reagan had a strong Libertarian streak, though he also held strong views about prayer in school, abortion, sex-ed in schools and other social concerns.

To find out about "Reagan In His Own Voice" and other issues Reagan spokeabout in the newly released tapes...

Click here: http://www.newsmax.com/reaganaudio

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