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September 04, 2007
Journal-Sentinel's "Off the Cuffs" column makes light of medical cannabis patient's plight
Posted by Gary Storck
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel includes a feature called “Off the Cuffs,” described as, “Off the Cuffs chronicles small crimes, follies and foibles. It is compiled from police reports around the Milwaukee area".
As a long-term “newshawk” for the Media Awareness Project/DrugSense’s archive of drug related news articles click here, I frequently come across Off the Cuffs in googling “marijuana” and "Wisconsin". Usually, the cannabis related items are about people who are so drunk they do things like hand their stash to the police.
This week, Off the Cuffs instead makes light of the filing of charges against a Wisconsin man for allegedly growing a cannabis plant to treat his wife’s migraines. Rather than making fun, what about maybe praising the man’s dedication to his wife and his apparent willingness to do whatever it takes (“family values?”) to ease his wife’s suffering? While it seems the authorities may have cut some slack in charging the case, it still means another state patient is going without their medicine. The writer’s lighthearted suggestion for her to stick to aspirin might be funny unless one considers that the headache sufferer undoubtedly tried every legal remedy before trying cannabis. The use of cannabis to treat headaches goes back hundreds of years, long before denying medicine to the sick became US government policy.
Off the Cuffs: Just play it cool, boy, and avoid Officer Krupke click here
By BOB PURVIS
Posted: Sept. 2, 2007
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Migraines and marijuana
A 39-year-old Lisbon man who told police that the 5-foot marijuana plant growing in his backyard was for his wife's headaches now has some legal headaches of his own.
A neighbor tipped off police, who showed up and confronted the man.
He coughed it up along with a stash cops described as a "huge number of pipes and other paraphernalia."
The man told cops it was all for personal use for his wife's headaches.
He was ticketed on suspicion of possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and, we surmise, may be using aspirin from now on.
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Posted by Gary at September 4, 2007 12:11 AM
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