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About two dozen supporters of California's landmark 1996 medical
marijuana measure urged Sheriff Mike Carona on Thursday to "stop violating
the law" and allow patients to cultivate and use marijuana without fear of
arrest.
"We are here because four years ago, 5.4 million voters in California
passed the medical marijuana law, and it's being ignored," Steve Kubby said
as he stood outside sheriff's headquarters in Santa Ana.
Kubby, 55, helped draft Proposition 215, the 1996 measure, and has
lived in Laguna Beach since his January 1999 arrest in Northern California
on various drug charges. His case ended in a mistrial on the marijuana
charges, but the jury convicted him of felony possession of a small amount
of peyote and a psychedelic mushroom stem.
During a news conference in front of the sheriff's office, Proposition
215 supporters such as Mira Ingram of Orange County chanted: "When are you
going to start obeying the law?"
Ingram, 33, said her doctor has recommended marijuana to help ward off
pain and nausea from diabetes, arthritis and other ailments.
"I have to live in fear in Orange County every day because there are no
guidelines here on marijuana use," she said. "Patients like me are being
arrested all the time." The department has arrested few people who claim the
right to use marijuana under Proposition 215.
Initially, the group was to hand Carona a set of guidelines for use
from the city of Oakland. But Carona was unavailable, a spokesman said.
The sheriff has said he will not alter department policy, which does
not recognize the right to use marijuana under Proposition 215, because
federal law bans marijuana cultivation and use.
Pubdate: 30 December 2000
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2000 Los Angeles Times
Contact: letters@latimes.com
Address: Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053
Fax: (213) 237-4712
Website: Los Angeles Times
Forum: https://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/
Author: DAVID REYES, Times Staff Writer
marijuana measure urged Sheriff Mike Carona on Thursday to "stop violating
the law" and allow patients to cultivate and use marijuana without fear of
arrest.
"We are here because four years ago, 5.4 million voters in California
passed the medical marijuana law, and it's being ignored," Steve Kubby said
as he stood outside sheriff's headquarters in Santa Ana.
Kubby, 55, helped draft Proposition 215, the 1996 measure, and has
lived in Laguna Beach since his January 1999 arrest in Northern California
on various drug charges. His case ended in a mistrial on the marijuana
charges, but the jury convicted him of felony possession of a small amount
of peyote and a psychedelic mushroom stem.
During a news conference in front of the sheriff's office, Proposition
215 supporters such as Mira Ingram of Orange County chanted: "When are you
going to start obeying the law?"
Ingram, 33, said her doctor has recommended marijuana to help ward off
pain and nausea from diabetes, arthritis and other ailments.
"I have to live in fear in Orange County every day because there are no
guidelines here on marijuana use," she said. "Patients like me are being
arrested all the time." The department has arrested few people who claim the
right to use marijuana under Proposition 215.
Initially, the group was to hand Carona a set of guidelines for use
from the city of Oakland. But Carona was unavailable, a spokesman said.
The sheriff has said he will not alter department policy, which does
not recognize the right to use marijuana under Proposition 215, because
federal law bans marijuana cultivation and use.
Pubdate: 30 December 2000
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2000 Los Angeles Times
Contact: letters@latimes.com
Address: Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053
Fax: (213) 237-4712
Website: Los Angeles Times
Forum: https://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/
Author: DAVID REYES, Times Staff Writer
