By Timothy Tipton

Posted by Camera

District Attorney Stan Garnett’s “War on Patients” must end (Article: Garnett may launch a legal challenge on Amendment 20). On August 6, he lost the case against Jason Lauve, a disabled medical cannabis patient who was acquitted by a jury of felony marijuana possession.

Garnett was extremely upset that Jason was not convicted, having poured all the resources of the DA’s office into this high profile case.

On August 24, a letter signed by several medical cannabis patients, caregivers and advocates was sent to Garnett asking him to discuss medical cannabis with concerned citizens who were forming a Medical Cannabis Policy Group. The purpose of the group is to determine the best ways to protect patients and their safe access to medicine.

The District Attorney ignored the offer to become part of a community discussion and instead has decided to file a lawsuit asking for an injunction on medical cannabis dispensaries. Since his tactic of attacking patients directly failed, the DA now wants to waste more taxpayer money to go after the patients’ caregivers through a different legal remedy. This will endanger patients by forcing them back into the black market.

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Glorianne Scott

Denver Legal News Examiner – Glorianne Scott

FBI agents surveilled an Aurora store that sold hydroponic equipment. They then followed customers who bought hydroponic growing materials to their homes. One such surveillance effort led to the arrest of two men in South Denver who were growing hundreds of marijuana plants. Agents also found nearly half a million dollars worth of guns, cash, and another unnamed controlled substance, Raj Chohan of CBS4  is reporting.

Kevin Randall, 28, and Luke Short, age unknown, were arrested. Each faces up to 40 years in prison.

Rocky Mountain Independent
By Charles Ashby
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Mason Tvert is a happy man. Well, maybe not that happy. As a guy who has worked to get Denver and Colorado to legalize marijuana, Tvert is happy that people outside the state seem to be coming around to his way of thinking.

He’ll be really happy, of course, if he can get more Coloradans to think his way, too.

Around the nation, there are increasing signs that Americans are beginning to accept the idea:

• In addition to Denver, 11 other cities have approved laws making it a low priority for law enforcement officials to arrest people using small amounts of marijuana.
• In addition to Colorado, 12 other states have approved its use for medicinal purposes.
• In Massachusetts, voters approved making the possession of small quantities of pot a petty offense, payable by a penalty similar to that of a traffic ticket.
• And just this week, voters in Oakland, Calif., overwhelmingly imposed the nation’s first-ever sales tax on companies that dispense the ganja weed to people certified to use it for medical reasons. (more…)