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Jailed
for
Vitamins:
Police
"error"
costs
man
six
weeks
in
jail
11/2/97
Malvin Marshal, taken to a North Carolina hospital due to an undisclosed
illness, ended up sitting in a jail cell for the past six weeks when a
police "field test" erroneously indicated that some crushed-up
vitamin tablets found in his pants pocket was actually heroin. "The
tablets were mushy, I had forgotten they were in my pocket and they had
been through the washing machine. I told them it was vitamins, but they
didn't believe me," Marshal told the Associated Press. In an explanation
that can be called unsatisfactory, at best, police Lt. Melvin Cumbee told
the AP, "Field test positives are not foolproof."
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Issue #17, 11/2/97
Focus on Colombia: An Extremely Eventful Two Weeks | UCSF Study Finds Cannabinoids are Effective Against Pain | Ninth Co-sponsor Signs on to Federal Medical Marijuana Bill: Get your representatives on board! | Medical Marijuana Defense Will Be Allowed in Michigan | Needle Exchange: Harris Poll finds 71% favor lifting the ban! | Jailed for Vitamins: Police error costs man six weeks in jail | Show and Jail: 11 year-old Texas boy faces drug possession charges | Plan to Put 10,000 US Troops on the Texas-Mexico Border Dies in Committee | Survey: Drug Use Rising Among Youngest Teens: Current strategies failing to curtail use | Quote of the Week: Everybody wants to play doctor
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