They Need Our Help in Fascist San Diego

To the San Diego Medical Marijuana Community,

Please read this brief and learn it. Share this with your attorneys.

 

This contains the DA’s office logic in prosecutions of medical marijuana “storefronts”.

Pg 9 and 10 were mis-scanned after page 12.

 

Read all cases on the Americans for Safe Access Website related to medical marijuana.

A “storefront”, a “dispensary”, a “collective”, in the end, there needs to be a clear consensus for the safe and affordable distribution of medical marijuana in San Diego County.

Asa Legal section

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?list=type&type=100

 

ASA collection of Landmark Decisions

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=34

 

We, you and I, can wait to be picked off one by one like ducks at a shooting range, or we can become very united and confront these legal issues.

 

Anybody and everybody including medical marijuana patients who groups together with only two people growing is at equal jeapordy. Case after case quietly snakes its way through San Diego as our rights are trampled on. We are the low hanging fruit on the easy tree for “arrest numbers” and “felony drug convictions”.

 

The status quo in court is to strip the patient of their medical status, get a judge to order that the jury not hear the medical defense, and try us as drug dealers. This may apply to you if you simply own a scale and have more than one strain of marijuana. This may also apply to you if you and one other friend get together and grow. If you were or are aware of the travesty of justice happening in San Diego courts, it would shock your socks off!

http://herbfolks.org/id131.html

Medicinal Rights Protest Planned Tomorrow 11-10 in Red Bluff

Protest in Red Bluff 11/10/09

There will be a protest of the MMJ ban in Red Bluff tomorrow evening at 6pm 11/10/09 at the Mother Earth Collective 780 Antelope Blvd. Red Bluff  CA

One brave dispensary operator who has decided to defy the town councils ban and faces daily harassment from the Red Bluff Police Chief needs support

 

http://www.weedbay.net/forums/dr-tod-mikuriya-memorial-medical-cannabis-scene/7468-protest-red-bluff-11-10-09-a.html

Pasadena Weekly Probe Finds Racism in Pasadena Marijuana Arrests

From its glamorization on TV to a major push toward its legalization in California next year, marijuana is enjoying the spotlight in pop culture. But in the shadows of that glow, African Americans using the oft-maligned weed are at far greater risk of arrest than their white counterparts, the Pasadena Weekly has learned.

For the past five years, Pasadena police officers have arrested African Americans on marijuana charges at rates wildly disproportionate to Pasadena’s demographics, according to a review by the Weekly of nearly four decades worth of arrest data.

http://urlet.com/sectors.pace

http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/just_too_high/7833/

Free Tad!

Greetings,

Many of you probably know that tad is in jail, fasting, after being sentenced to 35 days in jail (he’ll do about 28) for speaking too long at a Humboldt  Board of Supes meeting- well, for saying things the board didn’t want to have broadcast…

Due to the fact that the Board made such a blatant move to repress tad’s message, and due to the fact that the county board ultimately locked tad up for taking up time with words they did not want to hear (or to be heard), YOU ARE INVITED TO COME SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT TIME TODAY.

The board members and police can shut up and lock up one person, but there will be many more right behind him/her.

There will be lunch from PEOPLE PROJECT (of course , no charge) outside the County courthouse where the Board of Supervisors chambers are.  Food will arrive by 1pm.
During public comment, which starts at 1:30pm, you don’t have to have anything eloquent to say – but if you choose to speak (and take up that 3 minutes), I’m sure words will come to you.

Below is info about tad, who is currently in his 12th day in jail and 17th day without food.

Also, see an article at the Redwood Curtain CopWatch website :
http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/345

Noisemakers are welcome for outside the courthouse on Tuesday.

The regular PEOPLE PROJECT meeting, which occur on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm at PARC will not take place as usual.  Instead, we will be at the courthouse refusing to be silent. Please come.

–Verbena

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Tad went to jail on October 25, on the fifth day of his hunger strike. Tad started fasting on October 20 at the County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Tad was arrested at a County Board of  Supervisors meeting on January 27 after speaking for 39 seconds past the 3-minute limit, and charged with disturbing a public meeting and resisting arrest.

In the video of the meeting, you can hear the politicians continually interrupt tad as he tries to make his case against the county supporting the “Bar-O Boys Ranch,” a juvenile detention facility in Del Norte county that uses locked up youth to do labor that they don’t get paid for, in a bootcamp setting. In 2000, a youth died there during compulsory morning exercises, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Bar-O Boys Ranch, Del Norte County, and Bar-O Boys Ranch director Allan Smith.

For tad’s account of what happened at the arrest see: http://theplazoid.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/tads-apology/

To hear an interview that an independent journalist did with tad before he turned himself in, see:indybay.org, north coast region.

 

Watch the video of his commentary during the Board of Supervisors meeting at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_J4WXGZeE

The public comment of the next speaker is included in the video so that it can be seen that he spoke for more than five minutes, and was not arrested.

You can also send tad mail in jail at:

Theodore Robinson

Humboldt County Correctional Facility

826 4^th Street

Eureka, Ca. 95501

Dana Point pot dispensaries must turn over clients’ names

SANTA ANA A judge has ruled that five medical marijuana dispensaries in Dana Point must hand over records – including client names — to the city as part of an investigation into the facilities’ operations by Dec. 7.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-dispensaries-names-2633552-marijuana-records

Blood on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Hands

BLOOD ON ARPAIO’S HANDS

Imagine you are the mother of a mentally handicapped thirty-three-year-old-man. Your son functions on the level of a twelve-year-old boy.  His disability often causes him to act erratically, but you still hope that one day, he can lead a normal life.  One night in August, 2001, he is arrested on a misdemeanor loitering charge when he begins acting strangely in a convenience store.  When officers arrive to arrest him, he is clinging to the store’s coffee machine and won’t let go.  Four officers forcibly remove him from the store, handcuff him, and throw him to the ground to be hogtied. The force seems excessive, since your son is disabled and only weighs about a hundred and thirty pounds. A few minutes later, his limbs bound behind his tiny frame, officers load him into the squad car to take him away.  Before they pull away, your son asks you, like a little kid:

“Mom, will you ride in the car with me?”

“I can’t,” you tell him, “the police won’t let me.”

You figure that the police will probably hold your son overnight, and you head home to get some rest.

Two hours later, your son is dead.

When Charles Agster arrives at Madison Street Jail, he is confused, as is typical of his condition.  He tries to wriggle underneath a bench, and although he is still hogtied, three or more officers and a sheriff’s deputy jump on him, punch him, and knee him in the side.  One officer grips his face, pressing upward toward his chin. Although he is now unresponsive, the officers drag him, face down, into the Intake area and strap him into a restraint chair.  They place a spit-hood over his head, encasing him in darkness.  Minutes later, he stops breathing.  The original autopsy lists “positional asphyxia due to restraint” as his cause of death.

Videotape of the incident shows guards trying to resuscitate Agster, but he’s already brain dead. A 2002 Amnesty International report expresses concern “that the degree of force used against Agster was grossly disproportionate to any threat posed by him.”

http://www.arpaio.com/blood-on-hands/index.php

Shithead Sheriff Coming to Orange County to Campaign for Shithead Candidate

If I were there in SoCal I would greet this shithead with a sign and a megaphone, and I hope I wouldn’t be alone.  And, hey, Orange County, do the right thing, don’t elect a punk like Hunt.

Self-proclaimed ‘Toughest Sheriff’ stumps for Bill Hunt

October 30th, 2009, 12:35 pm · · posted by Tony Saavedra, Register investigative reporter

He’s the kind of sheriff who hunts down illegal immigrants with such enthusiasm that federal government officials personally ordered him to stop.

He’s the kind of sheriff who drags his feet on requests for public records and is constantly at the center of national controversy when it comes to civil rights, be it for making inmates sleep in tents, work on chain gangs or wear pink underwear.

Reservations for the 6 p.m. fund-raiser at Anaheim’s Phoenix Club, 1340 S. Sanderson Ave., are $99 to $1,000 — depending on whether you want your picture taken with Arpaio

http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/30/self-proclaimed-toughest-sheriff-stumps-for-bill-hunt/24229/

And he is the kind of sheriff that candidate Bill Hunt is modeling himself after

Hunger Strike and Jail for Tad

Hunger strikes are serious.  Please Brother Tad, survive to fight for us all, in your non-violent way.

http://theplazoid.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tad-is-in-jail/

San Jose Cops Beat Vietnamese-American Student with Batons, then Taser Him

A cell phone video shows San Jose police officers repeatedly using batons and a Taser gun on an unarmed San Jose State student, including at least one baton strike that appears to come after the man is handcuffed, as they took him into custody inside his home last month.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13635707

Darkness in San Diego

http://urlet.com/quirks.provider

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/09/chronic_city_darkness_in_san_d.php

In San Diego:

http://herbfolks.org