Police return marijuana

[TooStonedToType]

He'll Put This in His Pipe and Smoke It

While the decriminalization of medical marijuana is becoming a hot issue in Denver, one Timothy Haas was in the news yesterday because he got his weed back.

Timothy Haas felt equal parts redemption and queasiness Monday as he picked up a plastic bag containing half an ounce of marijuana at the Denver Police Department.

"I just want to go home and lie down," said Haas, 38. "The marijuana will calm me down."

Denver police returned the marijuana to Haas after authorities confiscated the drugs more than a month ago. Haas, who is from Denver, is prescribed to use medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress syndrome and post-concussion syndrome.


Haas said he suffered the ailments when he was hit in the head with a bat and stabbed three times in the chest in an attempted robbery at his wine business in 2001. Haas started using medical marijuana three years ago to deal with pain such as muscle spasms and ringing vibrations in his body.


He was hit in the head with a bat and stabbed three times in the chest? If anybody should get to smoke weed, it's this guy. But what really got our attention on this story is the picture of Haas, from the News, walking down the hallway of the Denver Police Administration Building:



Now that's funny.

-reposted orginal author unknown

[Bushpig]

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Booosh

[JRL]

Love it! Could the dude look any straighter? Maybe there is hope!

[fuzz]

                                 
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AHAH GREAT STORY.

this reminds me of the day i went to cope some mexican weed at the Dolores Park, in fine San Fransisco, Mission district.
i get my bag, or rather as usual, the mexican gives me 1 or 2 handfull for what i paid, i say something usual like "come on man", he adds a pinch, and i am now happy to go home and smoke.

on my way home, i decide to stop by the mexican store to get some fruity munchies. then, i walk home, a couple blocks aways, ready to relax. i look in my pocket, and to my horor, i realize that the bag i had put the weed in is gone. ARGH!!!! i must have dropped it at the mexi store! GGRRR!!!!!!
so, i did the natural thing. i walked back to the store to get my weed. by the counter, the next door chinese dude had come over, and the mexicans and him were discussing something with loud voices, none of them speaking engles, it sounded like the oh so wonderful squackle typical of the Mission district.

in one of them hands was my bag. i walked into the group, grabbed my bag, said "oh, thats mine" and walked out of the store. "yong tong ming huhu!!!!", "la loca chica y el mota!!!"

i went home, and munched on fruits for the evening:)

[dergheist]

Woohoo!!

Small dude's just gone and slapped da big dude and won!  Now we just need to win the war.  :twisted:

[fuzz]

"yong tong ming huhu!!!!"

[Hyakitaki]

If I might ask a serious favor of anyone with the stomach to do it.....

I need one of you to stab me in the chest with a knife 3 times while you bash me on the head with a baseball bat...try not to kill me though and I will share

[TooStonedToType]

"Could the dude look any straighter?"

I don't know - look at this pot smoker.

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Denver's prosecuters are running scared.  The idea that the police didn't have probable cause to search the car is laughable.  Probable Cause in Denver has long been defined by whatever the cop says it is.  The guy consented to the search.  The D.A. obviously didn't want to take this case to trial and loose.

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City throws out pot charge
Prosecutor says he's going after other marijuana cases
Forums: Marijuana in Denver
Rocky Mountain News
January 19, 2006

The city on Wednesday dismissed a pot possession charge against the first person arrested after Denver voters backed a measure legalizing small amounts of marijuana.

Defendant Eric Footer, 39, learned of the decision to throw out the case when he appeared at a hearing with plans to plead not guilty to the charge.

Footer, a real estate consultant, was cited Nov. 17. Voters passed Initiative 100 on Nov. 1.

"We view this as a real victory for Denver voters and a validation of what happened in November," said Footer's lawyer, Brian Vicente, who also is executive director for Sensible Colorado.

"Denver voters spoke loudly and clearly on this issue, and it looks like Denver officials are listening," he said. "The city has recognized there is better use of resources and taxpayers' money than prosecuting these cases. We hope this will send a message to police that the city attorney views this as futile."

But prosecutor Greg Rawlings said the dismissal of charges against Footer means no such thing.

Rawlings said he dismissed the case because of problems with the search of Footer's car.

Officers stopped Footer after a motorist complained that Footer had pounded on his vehicle. Footer, who drove away after the altercation, maintained the man nearly ran over his foot.

During the traffic stop, Footer dropped his keys on the floor of the car, prompting officers to quiz him about what he was reaching for. After officers ordered him out of the vehicle, Footer shifted his cell phone in his pocket - a move he said led police to suspect he might be reaching for a weapon.

Police patted him down, then asked if they could search his vehicle.

"When they didn't find anything on me, they said, 'we're going to go ahead, if it's all right with you, we're going to search your vehicle. If we do that, is there anything there that you shouldn't have?' " Footer recalled after the incident. "And I said, 'No. Go ahead.' "

Footer, who said he uses marijuana to ease the pain of three enlarged spinal discs, knew there was marijuana in the vehicle but said he didn't think twice about consenting because he thought pot had been legalized.

Officers cited him after they found a small amount of pot and a pipe.

"I didn't think there was sufficient probable cause for this search and I didn't think we would be able to prevail," Rawlings said Wednesday.

But the decision has nothing to do with the controversy surrounding the case and has absolutely no bearing on any other pot possession cases, he said.

"I am prosecuting a number of marijuana cases today and will continue to prosecute them," he said. "These cases are a large part of the docket every day."

Nonetheless, backers of a state initiative to legalize marijuana applauded the move as a signal that Denver won't pursue those possessing small amounts of pot.

"I don't believe it had to do with problems with the search," said Mason Tvert, campaign director for Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation. "We believe it had to do with the pressure put on the city by people who voted in this initiative."

Tvert urged others charged in Denver to contact his group, which plans to put a statewide measure legalizing adult pot possession on Colorado's November ballot.

"We will continue to encourage people to challenge these cases if they are charged," he said.

Footer said he was pleased and relieved by the dismissal of charges against him.

"I see it as a personal victory and a victory for all people who voted for this initiative, " he said. "I'm representing everybody who voted on the initiative. That's who I am here for."

Footer said he believed he was "abiding by the law."

The measure approved by Denver voters makes it legal for adults to privately possess less than an ounce of marijuana.

But it remains a crime under state and federal law.



Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, and Eric Footer smile outside Denver County Court on Wednesday after Footer's marijuana possession charge was dismissed. Footer was the first person arrested after Denver voters backed a measure legalizing small amounts of marijuana last November.

[senorsalvia]

Notice the prosecutor says he is prosecuting a large number of cases daily, and that this is considered routine?   Yeah well, guess it just goes to show the farce that is the current judicial system at large...  Doesn't take a genius to wonder why, if so many of the public are considered criminals, then by rights, the laws should be changed.....  {{  Ah, would that it were so}}-------------  sal

[Hyakitaki]

Something has been preplexing me for a long time now...if Marijuana is schedule one, then how can it be perscribed anywhere.  By definition schedule one drugs have no medicinal value.  Well fellows looks like your old fashioned 60 year old propaganda films may have been wrong, think maybe just maybe it's time to throw in the towel.
 
"Nah", they retort "Marijuana makes you go insane and kill your parents with steel cast frying pans, just like I saw 55 years ago in school in an old reel to reel I loved so much."

"Oh" I say with a look of confusion on my face "then ummm....well ummmm, ok you've contradicted yourself" I finally choke out.

"How so?" booms the judge with a look of utter confusion and stupidity on his face which obviously translates to not paying attention because of the monotony of his job.

"Well Marijuana is schedule one" I smile warmly while saying this, "But, you have just let a man off for using it for medicinal purposes...you even gave him back his precious green.  Aren't you at all worried the he is going to grab the nearest steel cast frying pan and go on a rampage?" I keep a happy tone the whole time, pretty much making my sarcasm evident.

"Well" The judge's face contorts into anger, "You ummm well ummm, you see a beaver builds it's home out of the surrounding refuge.  But we aren't animals you see." He smiles and is satisfied with the answer he gave.

"You answer is not only retarded sir, but it completely evaded the question" I say realizing that my use of retarded was misplaced.

"I've said what I need to say, and I hold to it.  Good day sir" Staying confident the judge somehow has satisfied himself in this existance of closed minded stupidity.

"No you didn't answee...."
"I SAID GOOD DAY SIR!!!!!!" He screams and the plaintiff sees me on my way out of the court room.

[boomer2]

That is probably the most expensive bag of marijuana in America.

Can you image the guys attorney's fees for taking his case.  Shit at leat $2,000.00 upwards?

boomer2

[Hyakitaki]

Ya but that's famous marijuana man....I would pay 200 bucks for 1/8th of that stuff easy, it's famous it made it through the legal system!  SWEET VICTORY AND LANDMARK OF HISTORY!

[TooStonedToType]

I understand his attorney was going to take the case pro bono.  However, it didn't even get to trial. They dropped the case against him.  But it does show it pays to get and attorney, hair cut and suit and tie.