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Le_Canard
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Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor
#7544446 - 10/21/07 08:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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2 undercover officers pose as patients in investigation By David Hasemyer UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
October 21, 2007
SAN DIEGO – When an undercover police officer asked Dr. Robert Sterner to prescribe marijuana for his dog, the doctor joked that only two-legged patients were covered by the state's medical marijuana law.
Dr. Robert Sterner talked with patient Rudy Reyes recently. The Medical Board seeks to revoke the physician's medical license, accusing him of gross negligence. So the officer suggested Sterner appoint him caregiver for the dog, a designation that would allow him to obtain marijuana in the animal's name, according to a Medical Board of California accusation.
While a hidden camera rolled, Sterner said, “There you go. That's being creative,” according to the accusation.
The police officer walked out of the doctor's office with signed authorizations that allowed him to buy marijuana for his dog, as well as for himself.
Now the Medical Board wants to revoke Sterner's license, accusing the 50-year-old Middletown doctor of gross negligence in issuing medical marijuana recommendations to two undercover police officers. He is also accused of incompetence for his lack of knowledge about the safe use of marijuana and its therapeutic value.
Sterner was among a number of doctors targeted in a sting by the San Diego Police Department, including one doctor whose office consisted of a desk and three chairs but no medical equipment. The doctors were investigated because they seemed to be issuing a significant number of marijuana recommendations to young patients who didn't have serious medical conditions, according to the accusation filed in Administrative Law Court.
Sterner's attorney, Zenia Gilg, said the sting was illegal and nothing more than harassment.
“The purpose of the undercover investigation of the San Diego physicians, including Dr. Sterner, was clearly to intimidate and silence them,” Gilg said a letter to the Medical Board.
The police investigation follows years of debate over a 1997 California law – born out of voter-approved Proposition 215 – that allows marijuana use for medical reasons. California was the first of a dozen states that have legalized marijuana for medical use, although federal drug laws still make any use of the drug illegal.
(From SignonSan Diego.Com)
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Brainiac
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: Le_Canard]
#7544848 - 10/21/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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ReposadoXochipilli
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: Brainiac]
#7545495 - 10/22/07 01:10 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It is a weird situation in Cali with the medicinal, definitely a lot of for profit/not medicinal selling... which is ok with me, but discredits the actual for medicine movement.
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The_Red_Crayon
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: Le_Canard]
#7546474 - 10/22/07 11:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Inst this called entraptment
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#7547024 - 10/22/07 01:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"He is also accused of incompetence for his lack of knowledge about the safe use of marijuana and its therapeutic value." heh heh heh heh who is incompetent of anything but media control? not that doc haha nope. heh
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Le_Canard
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LukeMWSki said: It is a weird situation in Cali with the medicinal, definitely a lot of for profit/not medicinal selling... which is ok with me, but discredits the actual for medicine movement.
I feel the same. I hope incidents like this don't queer the deal for those who truly need it.
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DNKYD
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#7550513 - 10/23/07 11:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The_Red_Crayon said: Inst this called entraptment
Police stings are funny like that. If he were to ask the undercover if he worked for, or was working in cooperation with, a law enforcement agency and the undercover told him no, then it would be considered entrapment.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Sting Targets Doctor [Re: DNKYD]
#7551276 - 10/23/07 03:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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DNKYD said:
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The_Red_Crayon said: Inst this called entraptment
Police stings are funny like that. If he were to ask the undercover if he worked for, or was working in cooperation with, a law enforcement agency and the undercover told him no, then it would be considered entrapment.
Actually, I'm quite sure that undercover officers are allowed to lie when asked that question. As a matter of fact, I'm positive. I saw it on cops.
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