One year ago, 4th of July weekend, I along with hoards of travellers from all over was on my way to Rothbury Music Festival in Rothbury, MI. We were pulled over for speeding about a mile from the entrance on our way in. My friend driving was told by the officer that he could smell marijuana, but she doesn't smoke marijuana and denied any knowledge, so he asked me.
I gave the officer my marijuana (3.5 grams) and pipe and stated it was for persona medical use, however I did not have a doctor's recommendation. He told me he had no intention of arresting me thank to my honesty, however I not being a legal patient was breaking the law and a ticket would be ssued
A short while later the officer returned with some bad news, something about me being from out of county he couldn't issue a citation for possession and was to arrest me. He followed however with he had no ntention of ruining my good time, I seemed ike a good kid. So he took my info and told me he'd release a warrant for my arrest after rothbury and would call me when it was done.
In early August I called the county sheriff. Having heard no news I thought it best to double-check that I had no warrant. I was so relieved to hear there were no warrants for my arrest, but this wouldn't end it. In mid september 2009, I was attending another music festival, wuhnurth, in Muncie, Indiana Midway thru the festival the officer that stopped us on the way to Rothbury called. A warrant had finally been issued 2 1/2 months after the incident.
Of course having no card or recommendation yet, I acted in fear of a 3rd offense misdemeanor possesion charge (would've become 3rd offense habitual offender felony) and ran for a while.
On March 10, 2010... I was given recommendation by my doctor to use medica mariijuana for back pain from a 7 yr old accident that has plagued me since. The next day I filed my application with the MDCH.
Recently I was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, an officer asked my name. Of course after running it, I was arrested on the warrant from Oceana County Sheriff's Dept. at this point I was taken to lansing municipal jail and waited til the next day for an oceana county sheriff to transfer me across the state. He was a kind bailiff for the court who stopped halfway to take off the cuffs, let me use my phone to get bail and even bought me subway as I was starving after the jail slop for a day. He also nicknamed me Marijuana Mikey, haha. As the incident getting me questioned also was marijuana related, as was the warrant and all we talked about was the new medical state in michgan.
After 3 hrs in Oceana County Jail, I was released on a 10% cash/surety bond with a full bail of 2500 dollars. My friends had driven far to pay 250 to get me out and also being medical users were ready for me and we found a safe place to medicate.
I went to my arraingement and pleaded not guilty. I was informed that I was still on bond and was not to consume drugs or alcohol except at doctors recommendation til the end of the case. Of course, I continued to use my medicine.
This past Tuesday was my drug assessment and pretrial conference. I didn't have to drop at the assessment, because I signed a form saying i'd knowingly ingested marijuana in the past 24 hrs at the recommendation of my doctor. A few hrs later in meeting with the assistant prosecuting attorney, I was told that he thought medical marijuana was a "crock of shit", but he wasn't about to goto trial with a jury of my peers and a lawyer and lose against me because the "people of this state, don't know what they're doing". He told me my case was dismissed. Of course this called for celebration and we did. bunny muffin", but he wasn't about to goto trial with a jury of my peers and a lawyer and ose against me because the "people of this state, don't know what they're doing". He told me my case was dismissed.
Of course I celebrated shortly thereafter...
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♫ ♪ In the garden of many fields, there is no me or you. There is no right or wrong. There is no up or down. There is no black or white. Everyone is the plow man. Everyone is the seed. Everyone harvests and everyone yields. In the garden of many fields, everyone is one with one love and one love is one with everyone. ♪ ♫
lyrics from: Transglobal Underground - Eyeway Souljah (from Psychic Karaoke)
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