Florida Jury Trail, Anorexic Using Medical, Not Guilty

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http://marijuanastocks.com/florida-jurors-acquit-broward-man-for-growing-medical-marijuana/

 

While Florida might have lost the battle for medical Marijuana with a 57% majority, the people have not lost the ability to be rational. Making history in Florida for the first time a Broward jury acquitted a man of cultivating and harvesting cannabis after further discovering he has a medical condition that calls for the use of this illegal drug. Jesse Teplick didn’t hide the evidence from the detectives that arrived at his Hollywood home two years ago moving on a tip from an informant that he was harvesting marijuana on the property. And he hid nothing from the jury on Thursday when he took the stand at his criminal trial, even confessing that he used cannabis earlier in the day to help aid the nausea and loss of appetite that had been giving him issues for more then 10 years. Jesse Teplick has suffered from anorexia since he’s been 9 years claiming marijuana helps provide proper treatment for his medical issue. Medical reasons for using marijuana have worked as a defense in the past, but it’s never been used in the presence of a jury. “You saved my life,” a rejoiced Teplicki said to three jurors who remained in the courtroom after they were discharged by Broward Circuit Judge Michael Ian Rothschild.

 

“This is an historic decision in the state of Florida,” said defense lawyer Michael C. Minardi. “Hopefully prosecutors heed the decision and are less likely to prosecute this kind of case in the future.”

[t-pain]

great story.

[garyfisher]

YES!

[outsideinthecold]

When juries decline to convict those who benefit from mmj, the writing seems clear except to some Prohibitionists who apparently can't read.

 

What happens to the high priests when the old Gods die?

[Willy]

What happens to the high priests when the old Gods die?

 

We can hope there burned at the stake.

Edited March 4, 2015 by Willy

[outsideinthecold]

I hold no anger against those who in ignorance and fear have persecuted MMJ patients and mj consumers for eighty years.

 

But someone who does must find this ongoing Prohibitionists nightmare of a slow death by thousands of cuts every bit as excrutiating as the Chinese torture of the same name especially satisfying.

Edited March 4, 2015 by outsideinthecold

[outsideinthecold]

Life can't be too pleasant for someone who is afraid of being attacked by a marijuana crazed rabbit.

[t-pain]

ok someone needs to do a reenactment of this killer bunny in the pot field , with the monty python dialog.

[Willy]

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/02/utah-dope-crazed-rabbits-marijuana-legalised

 

 

In testimony last week before the Utah state senate, and first spotted by theWashington Post, special agent Matt Fairbanks expressed “some severe concerns” about marijuana as a cash crop. “Now I deal in facts. I deal in science,” he said, citing his experience ranging Utah’s mountains as a member of the state’s “marijuana eradication” team to bolster his concerns.

“Deforestation has left marijuana grows with even rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana,” Fairbanks declared, suggesting that hares were yet one more of an unknown number of species to have succumbed to a cannabis addiction.

Edited March 4, 2015 by Willy

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Since he had to bring science into it, all mammals have endocanabanoid receptors. Invertebrates do not (and you thought the lizard people weren't in charge).

 

They didn't develop a taste, the receptors were always there waiting for their chance to be filled. Which would have happened naturally if we weren't so dead set on outlawing nature.

Edited March 4, 2015 by slipstar059

[slipstar059]

Also, I'd love to see the republican buzzword list they must be sending out. Its the same list the Dems were using 3 years ago. Science, and compassion, are def on there.