http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA4GKG__B-s

so when a trial is taking place the jury has the right to judge the fact as well as the law...


check out this video of al roker talkin to charles lynch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cist_J_KoI

here is a video of drew carrey talking about charles lynch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMRjBauvPI

on john stossel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-09sWCdlY



Know about charles lynch? well he is looking at going to jail for 5-100 years for cannabis-only charges.
He followed all the requirements on his business license; he met all city regulations; and was legal under CA law.
During the trial he demonstrated his law-abiding nature in a couple of ways. At one point, while Charlie gave his direct examination testimony, Federal prosecutor, David Kowal objected to the fact that Charles was reading from the phone bill that showed he had called 4 DEA phone s before opening his medical marijuana dispensary. The defense removed the phone bill from a projection screen which projected the image around the courtroom and Charlie's lawyer began asking him more questions about his conversations with the DEA. Charles stopped the proceedings by announcing he still had the phone bill in front of him in an evidence book. His lawyer told him to close the book. If Charlie was a dishonest man he could have just snuck a look at the phone bill and gotten away with it but he's an honest man and wanted to do the right thing.
In another instance Judge Wu was advising him about his attorney-client privileges, telling Charlie if he answers the prosecutions questions he forfeits his rights. Charlie looked at the judge and asked "How am I supposed to answer then?" He looked to the authority in the matter for guidance. He has a good-natured, law-abiding personality. If he didn't it would have be apparent at some point during the trial. Ask Charlie if having a physician's note to use cannabis in California is a get out of Federal jail card. He himself was a patient before he was busted. Now that he's subjected to random drug test by the federal government he is no longer allowed to use cannabis to relieve his debilitating migraines.
I'm not a terminally ill patient but I have a chronic condition. To just look at me, I look like a healthy, able-bodied person but those who know me know I struggle through life with mild to severe pain on a daily basis. People who suffer chronic pain have their body chemistry change due to the pain and suffer from depression easily. Many of these people end up taking their own lives because of the difficulties associated with being in constant pain.
Cannabis helps me maintain a positive attitude about my life while easing my pain. It's not a cure-all but it's been better than the numerous prescription drugs I've been on which usually hurt my stomach, interfered with my cognitions to the point of not allowing me to study at the prominent university I transferred to.
Pop-culture language and stereotypes do nothing for my current status as a cannabis patient. I don't take "tokes"; I medicate. I am not a stoner; I am a senior at a ivy league school; I attend church a couple of times a week; I am a community volunteer; I pay taxes; and vote.
Before moving to Los Angeles, I lived near Berkeley and purchased my medical cannabis on the black market out of shared-college living space out of a dirty, dingy room. I never really knew what I was getting and had no idea the difference between the strains. It was always a hassle. I always had to buy on the schedule of the dealer and deal with an unsafe, crowded purchase place.
Since getting my physician's note, I've been able to find safe and affordable access to medical cannabis from clean, well organized locations with educated members to help me make the best purchase for my own needs. The insurance companies never have to know one thing about this private medical situation of mine. It's none of their business, especially since their business does not seem to accommodate my own best interest.
California Senate plans to vote for a resolution that would protect California employees from being discriminated against for using medical cannabis on their own time. This new law would override the Ross decision.
I have no paranoia issues, I think that's another stereotype that hurt patients like me more than anything.

As far as healthy people with "bogus" recommendations (doctors do NOT prescribe cannabis they recommend it), they do NOT concern me in the least. Cannabis is a non-lethal herb. There is NO amount of marijuana that anyone can consume that would kill them from overdose. That can't even be said of water, not to mention all the deaths from prescription drugs and alcohol. The scientific research is powerful and should be the basis for regulations and restrictions not the government's misinformation.
The "rabbit-hole"-fluff piece, "California Dreaming" article interviews someone from the Office for National Drug Control Policy. That office is required to OPPOSE any legalization efforts of schedule 1 drugs (cannabis, heroin, ecstasy, PCP, meth) for ANY reason, including medical. Don't believe me? Google: Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998: H11225: Responsibilities. (12). The information that office supplies is inaccurate and the statistics are slanted. They are NOT required to tell the truth.
The bad law is the law that persecutes people like Charles Lynch for helping patients. His dispensary was the only one in his entire county. Now patients have to drive 100 miles away to legally, under California law, buy cannabis.
I've met with the offices of my Senators and I have an appointment with my House of Representative's office tomorrow. Things have to change. The jails are overcrowded with cannabis-only prisoners; we spend billions on cannabis prohibition when cannabis could generate billions more in taxes; federal laws are the most dangerous aspect of cannabis, don't believe me? Ask Charles Lynch, he will tell you the truth.

Charles Lynch’s bail $400,000.00, what is truly fucking nuts is A San Luis Obispo Sheriff (The same sheriff's department that investigated and raided Charles with the DEA) is charged with Child Pornography and is out on a $5,000 bail. I don't get it. Someone has to explain this injustice to me. My brain can NOT fathom the logic. Isn't that against his constitutional right to fair bail?

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31 views and no comments ? am i the only person the finds this interesting.

You know, a lot of people on here are fed up with this kind of shit, but a lot of people on here thought that with a Democratic President and Congress, things like this would change...

I think there is a general attitude in America that the laws in this country are set forth and enforced by the very people who break them consistently, like the sheriff out on a small bail for child porn. Then you have Senators and Congress persons cheating on their taxes, Barney Frank who ran a homosexual bordello out of his home, and the list goes on. Things like this set in a depression - a funk, if you will, where you just throw your hands up in the air and say "Why bother fighting this corrupt system anymore?"

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I knew this, actually, and I can't wait till I am called to jury duty, and hopefully its a drug trial, cuz I will make that judge scream in frustration.MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

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hell yeah stoney! I cant wait until my day in court comes.. hopefully it will be as a jury member and not the man on trial.. hopefully if im on trial, I have someone like you on the jury.

great post ...

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what about jury nullification?

do you have original link?

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I hope so, too, man, if it comes to that.

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But all is not lost for Charlie Lynch.....

On Monday Charles Lynch, 46, proprietor of the Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, was due to be sentenced on federal charges of distributing marijuana that could have brought a sentence of up to 100 years (!). (Since it was a federal trial, no mention of California’s law of Lynch’s compliance with it was allowed.) But U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu postponed the sentencing and requested a clarification of the new rules regarding federal raids and prosecution of medical marijuana patients and providers outlined by U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder last week, who said the Obama administration wouldn’t be prosecuting such people unless a dispensary was clearly a front for illicit distributionOn Monday Charles Lynch, 46, proprietor of the Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, was due to be sentenced on federal charges of distributing marijuana that could have brought a sentence of up to 100 years (!). (Since it was a federal trial, no mention of California’s law of Lynch’s compliance with it was allowed.) But U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu postponed the sentencing and requested a clarification of the new rules regarding federal raids and prosecution of medical marijuana patients and providers outlined by U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder last week, who said the Obama administration wouldn’t be prosecuting such people unless a dispensary was clearly a front for illicit distribution.


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PS... jury duty sucks, I've had to sit through that shit twice.......

I think this topic could use a bump... everyone should know their rights...if you tell your friends.. and they tell their friends.. then all of a sudden there will be a huge change.. come on people!!.. chances are you might never be on a jury..but I bet you have met someone who has or will be!!!