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Rheumatoid
Arthritis
Sufferer
Gets
9-Month
Suspended
Sentence
in
England
11/15/97
Eric Mann is a fifty-four year-old former oil refinery supervisor forced
into early retirement by the pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis. He is also a
grandfather... and a medical marijuana user. Mr. Mann had never before
been in any trouble with the law, but last week, the Swansea Crown Court
sentenced him to nine months imprisonment for the 141 cannabis plants found
growing in his attic. Due to his medical condition, and to Mr. Mann's otherwise
good character, the court suspended the sentence.
Despite this, Mr. Mann says he plans to take his case to the European
Court of Human Rights, and he plans to continue to use cannabis to relieve
his pain.
Week Online readers will note that Will Foster, currently serving 93
years in the state of Oklahoma, was growing less than half the number of
plants that Mr. Mann was convicted of... also for relief of Rheumatoid
Arthritis.
[Source: The Independent on Sunday, 11/9]
Will Foster web page: http://www.gnv.fdt.net/~jrdawson/willfoster.htm
The Independent's Cannabis decriminalization campaign: http://www.independent.co.uk/sindypot/index.htm
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Issue #19, 11/15/97
NJ Needle Exchange Continues Legal Battle: Medical Necessity Defense Rejected By Judge | Virginia Pushes Envelope on Pain Control: Medical Society Calls For Greater Acceptance Of Narcotics | Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Landmark Book by Grinspoon and Bakalar | Media Alert: Magazine Does Hatchet Job on San Francisco's Reform-Minded District Attorney | Events: The Reformer's Calendar Updated -- Events Coming Right Up! | Junior High Student Suspended for Supplying Cough Drop | Drug Czar "Sends a Message" to the Pentagon Over Anti- Drug Budget: Military Reluctant To Expand Drug War Involvement | Shultz And Friedman Tell California Cops "Drug War is a Dismal Failure" | Undercover Federal Narc Shoots Teen Holding Candy Bar | Consumption of (Legal) Alcohol Plunges | 18 Students Share Needle in Science Class | 51% of Canadians Favor Decriminalization of Marijuana | Clinton Removes Syria, Lebanon from List of Problem Drug Trafficking Nations | Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferer Gets 9-Month Suspended Sentence in England | Colorado Governor Calls for Sentencing Reform: Prefers Alternatives to Incarceration and Educational Spending | Editorial: Youth are Victims of Drug War
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