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 [NV] Judge orders drug offender to write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law 
#13086940 - 08/22/10 05:25 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Judge orders drug offender to write report on pot
August 22, 2010 - Associated Press
GARDNVERVILLE, Nev.—A Nevada judge has issued a homework assignment in the form of an unusual sentence for a 25-year-old Sacramento man who sold marijuana to a police informant in a casino parking lot at Lake Tahoe.
District Judge Dave Gamble ordered Matthew Palazzolo to write a report on what the judge called the "nonsensical character" of California's medical marijuana law.
Gamble gave Palazzolo 90 days to complete the paper discussing his self-admitted realization that marijuana was a gateway drug that led him to use more powerful narcotics.
"Here's a young man with a bachelor's degree and a rosy future and now is a potential felon. It's just the height of stupidity," Gamble said during Tuesday's sentencing in Gardnerville south of Carson City.
Palazzolo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. He was arrested outside a casino in Stateline in February after he sold a quarter-pound of pot to an informant for $1,060.
Palazzolo, who works for a law firm in Sacramento, admitted he grew it after obtaining a medical marijuana card.
"I had a sore back," Palazzolo said. "I used records from my chiropractor who had diagnosed I had regular back and neck pain. ... I was never laid up or in bed."
He said he developed the pain through activities like snowboarding, wakeboarding and martial arts.
"So you decided to grow your own?" Gamble asked. "If this isn't testimony to the absolute asininity of medical marijuana laws in California and the path Nevada is choosing."
Palazzolo's attorney Derrick Lopez said the arrest and substance abuse treatment convinced his client he had a drug problem.
"He's been abusing drugs for a long time," Lopez said. "He changed roommates, got rid of all his marijuana, and asked California to void his medical marijuana card."
"He would benefit from diversion. He has never been in trouble before except the marijuana. He is really embarrassed about this situation," Lopez said.
Palazzolo admitted he obtained the card for recreational drug use.
"I have a drug problem, and I would not have said that a month and a half ago," he said. "Alcohol and marijuana are gateway drugs that led to harder drug use."
He said drug use had taken him down "a path that is a very ugly place" and he intended to stay sober.
Gamble allowed Palazzolo to enter a diversion program in California and ordered quarterly appearances before his court and random drug testing. He also told him to contact "the quasi-bureaucratic outfit in California and tell them you want them to cancel the card."
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: veggie]
#13087146 - 08/22/10 06:27 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I would take this opportunity and write a report on how fucked up the judicial system is and write about how the government prohibits the use of marijuana while at the same time, glamorizes even deadlier drugs like alcohol and tobacco. They also punish non violent drug users worse than violent criminals sometimes. It's all very backwards. The only reason cannabis profits even touch the hands of criminals is because of these hypocritical laws.
I would give this dumbass judge a piece of my mind.
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: veggie]
#13087153 - 08/22/10 06:28 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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it is amazing what you will say when facing a felony. fuckers
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: Knewnews]
#13087503 - 08/22/10 08:23 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I would have the ACLU all over this. Fucking fascists!
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: TrancedShroom]
#13088129 - 08/22/10 10:36 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Someone should write him a letter about him overstepping his professional boundaries and pretending to know anything about medicine. The American Medical Association endorses medicinal cannabis and all the sudden he knows more than doctors? I think not.That is part of the illogicality of the drug war. You don't help addiction by sending law professionals to do a health professional's job.
Fuck this judge, lets blow up his phone line.
Department One: The Honorable David R. Gamble, District Judge, P. O. Box 218, Minden, NV 89423
Phone: (775) 782-9961
Edited by utk (08/22/10 10:36 PM)
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: Knewnews]
#13089091 - 08/23/10 04:10 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Knewnews said:
it is amazing what you will say when facing a felony. fuckers
Yeah - but at least they didn't make him say he was a witch and flew in the rafters spoiling the milk....
Of course he said that stupid shit under terrible duress of fear and they used him to strike a blow. (The pussy)
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: curenado]
#13089562 - 08/23/10 10:40 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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The guy is saying whatever he needs to say to get off easier.
As far as the sentence, it definitely seems odd. The ACLU should look into perhaps.
Fuck this judge, I'll be calling him soon.
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: bigboi86]
#13091671 - 08/23/10 07:29 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
bigboi86 said:
I would take this opportunity and write a report on how fucked up the judicial system is and write about how the government prohibits the use of marijuana while at the same time, glamorizes even deadlier drugs like alcohol and tobacco. They also punish non violent drug users worse than violent criminals sometimes. It's all very backwards. The only reason cannabis profits even touch the hands of criminals is because of these hypocritical laws.
I would give this dumbass judge a piece of my mind.
From the article it sounds like Palazzoo started this nonsense though. Probably in consultation with his lawyer he decided telling how marijuana led him down the path to harder drugs would get him a lighter sentence. The judge simply picked up on that, believed it and asked the guy to go further and to really think about the mistakes he made.
the judges non sense about medical marijuana is kind of superfluous and its all jumbled together by the poor writing of the article.
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Re: [NV] Judge orders drug offender write report on "nonsensical" California medical marijuana law [Re: Freedom]
#13096280 - 08/24/10 05:44 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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The guy was a moron no doubt, but the judge is seriously on an ego trip.
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