Missouri Veteran Says He Should Be Allowed To Grow Pot Instead Of Becoming An Addict

[Jim Finnel]

A wounded Missouri veteran is gearing up for a battle he says he shouldn't have to fight. But this battle is in a courtroom.

Prosecutors have slapped Ken Unger of St. Charles with a felony charge of growing marijuana in his home. Unger says it's strictly for medicinal use to ease chronic pain cause by an accident he had in 1983 while on a tour of duty. But he doesn't deny the charges.

"Yes I was growing marijuana, and I was growing it for my own personal consumption," he said.

Unger was prescribed morphine to control his pain, which he says he's tired of.

"I feel like I'm totally trapped," Unger said. "I'm not allowed to do anything for pain relief other than be a morphine addict, and I don't want to be a morphine addict."

Prosecutors like Jack Banas say that's simply too bad.

"It's illegal. It's flat out illegal. There's no exception to it," said Banas about the law Unger is accused of violating. "We're not a state that has any kind of defense to it such as a medical defense."

Marijuana legal action group "Green Aid" has stepped forward to help Unger fight the felony charges.

If convicted, Unger could face five to f15 years behind bars. A hearing is scheduled for March.

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Re: Missouri Veteran Says He Should Be Allowed To Grow Pot Instead Of Becoming An Add

What is the greater moral and legal tranvesty? Having the natural right to one's person abrogated by the modern-day witch hunt, and in turn prosecuted and persecuted, or, that of having the First Amendment really mean something, and not just what the govt. will "give" its citizens? This is about the natural right to one's person, and the state cannot give rights, however, the state can take rights away, be it Constitutionally, as in punishing real criminals, or, that of heavy-handedly prosecuting self-medication. My body, my right! It is the continued course of the war on drugs, and the scapegoating of those drugs and "users", that has clogged up our courts and diminished the effectiveness of law enforcement. Wake up peeps!