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Two Christmases later and the federal government continues its persecution of this family. Will it make any difference that Naulls is as African-American as the president-elect? And risks his liberty for the California legal medical version of exactly what Obama has admitted to doing in Hawaii and elsewhere as a youth--sharing cannabis? Maybe there won't be much change before March 2009, the latest trial date--but it's up to all of us to keep the Naulls Family, and all of our martyrs, not only in our hearts, but in the public view, and well defended.
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FRESNO, CA -- Amid the sobbing of their family members, former medical marijuana dispensary operators Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Montes were handed down lengthy prison sentences late last month.
Scarmazzo received a term of 262 months, while Montes was sentenced to 240 months in prison.
“The penalties are severe because of what controlled substances are doing to our country,” Judge Oliver Wanger said about the lengthy sentences. He did not elaborate.
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Charles C. Lynch is the former Managing Caregiver for the City Sanctioned Dispensary in Morro Bay California. The Dispensary opened in April 2006 and operated without incident until it was raided by the DEA and the local Sheriff's Department on March 29, 2007. Lynch was not arrested during the raid. Upon return to the dispensary Lynch and his employees found a message from Law Enforcement saying 'All Hippies Die'.
*Washington, DC* -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28, 2007, ruled that "it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal drug laws." The case, involving Felix Kha, a medical marijuana patient from Garden Grove, was the result of a wrongful seizure of medical marijuana by local police in June 2005.
Medical marijuana advocates hailed today's decision as a huge victory in clarifying law enforcement's obligation to uphold state law. Advocates assert that better adherence to state medical marijuana laws by local police will result in fewer needless arrests and seizures. In turn, this will allow for better implementation of medical marijuana laws not only in California, but in all states that have adopted such laws.
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Ancient cannabis findings represent the most compelling physical evidence to date for the use of cannabis for its medicinal or mystical attributes.
The Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, China have recently been excavated to reveal the 2700-year-old grave of a Caucasoid shaman whose accoutrements included a large cache of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions. A multidisciplinary international team demonstrated through botanical examination, phytochemical investigation, and genetic deoxyribonucleic acid analysis by polymerase chain reaction that this material contained tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis, its oxidative degradation product, cannabinol, other metabolites, and its synthetic enzyme, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, as well as a novel genetic variant with two single nucleotide polymorphisms. The cannabis was presumably employed by this culture as a medicinal or psychoactive agent, or an aid to divination. To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent, and contribute to the medical and archaeological record of this pre-Silk Road culture.
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FRESNO, CA -- In spite of the best efforts of their attorneys, convicted medical marijuana dispensary operators Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Montes have been refused a new trial. During a motions hearing last week, Judge Oliver Wanger ruled that the jurors’ exposure to outside information during deliberations did not justify setting aside their verdicts. Although he found that his instructions for juror conduct had been violated, the judge declared that the outside information was not itself prejudicial. Concluding that “deliberations must be secret and maintained as such,” Judge Wanger vanquished the defendants’ last hope for avoiding sentences of at least twenty years in prison.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- A federal jury this afternoon found medical marijuana provider Charles “Eddy” Lepp guilty on all charges. This includes one count for conspiracy to distribute or to possess with the intent to distribute, and another count for manufacture or possession with the intent to distribute. With regard to both counts, jurors made the finding that the offenses involved at least a thousand marijuana plants.
The decision came following a fast-paced trial that played out over the course of three mornings in a modest San Francisco courtroom. It involved relatively unrestricted language about the medical and religious use of marijuana, but before deliberations the jury was told to disregard this rhetoric and apply federal law as instructed. As such, the verdict was a predictable outcome.
