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 veggie
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 Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA]
#8402807 - 05/14/08 09:44 PM |
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Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana
May 14, 2008 - komotv.com
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. -- A 35-year-old Shelton man is fighting for the right to use medical marijuana. The problem is that Alex Morris is in the Snohomish County Jail. The state's Medical Marijuana Act does not cover inmates of jails or prisons. Alex is in jail for 30 days.
His wife says those 30 days will make him very, very sick.
"He's in severe pain, unbearable excruciating pain because he's not able to eat to keep things down," said Kim Morris. "He's lost ten pounds in the last eight days."
In 1998, voters in Washington state approved the use of medical marijuana.
Alex has Crohn's disease and as a result suffers severe headaches. The law covers that and Alex has his doctor's permission; he's registered as a user of medical marijuana.
"It allows me to eat, to hold food down, to come out of my dark hole I'm in," said Alex, speaking from jail.
"Alex has tried all the other medications for Crohn's and, for him, they don't work," said Kim.
But jail officials say Washington law clearly states that permission to use medical marijuana does not include correctional facilities.
"At this point in time we do not allow people to have medical marijuana in the jail," said Deanna Dawson, executive director for corrections in the Snohomish County Executive's Office.
Dawson says it would take an act of the Legislature to approve use of a drug not available in the jail pharmacy, specifically marijuana. The present law does not actually authorize prescriptions; it authorizes medicinal use.
"I don't have a problem with people being in custody, the question is: is it cruel and unusual punishment to keep a person incarcerated and not provide them with the vital medications they require?" said Alex's attorney James Kovac.
The attorney asked a judge to give Alex home detention, community service, but let him out.
"I want to be able to do my time, I don't want to suffer. That's the only thing. I don't want to suffer," Alex said.
The judge said she cannot change the jail sentence because it was imposed by a judge in Lynnwood. Morris' attorney plans to petition the Lynnwood for a change in the sentence on Thursday.
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 hockeyplyr1057
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Re: Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA] [Re: veggie]
#8403816 - 05/15/08 01:13 AM |
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ouch that sucks
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Coaster
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ya totally
zero compassion
i mean at least give him sum vicoden
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AlCapwn
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Re: Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA] [Re: Coaster]
#8403982 - 05/15/08 03:26 AM |
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I doubt vicodin will help him hold his eats. I mean, this is inhumane. Law shouldn't be a system, so it would be more flexible. Maybe then we won't have to have stupid fucking shit like this.
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Re: Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA] [Re: AlCapwn]
#8405723 - 05/15/08 03:19 PM |
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what about marinol?
if the problem is with taking the pill I'm sure he could crush it and throw it in a drink or something?
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MantrippinonX
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Re: Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA] [Re: crazyeddie]
#8406473 - 05/15/08 06:54 PM |
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well in the article it said he has tried other shit and it never worked, and Alcapwn is right the law should be as flexible as the changing times. cruel and unusual punishment is forbidden by the constitution, so why is the government not doing the right thing
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Re: Inmate in severe pain without medical marijuana [WA] [Re: MantrippinonX]
#8408564 - 05/16/08 08:21 AM |
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I think he should stay out of jail then...
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