A medical marijuana activist who had received extensive media coverage for her vocal support of the medicinal use of marijuana was recently arrested by law enforcement officials and charged with various drug charges including possession with intent to manufacture a controlled substance.
Jean Marlowe, president of the Marijuana Relegalization Movement, told local newscasters in a television interview that she smoked marijuana at least three times a day to obtain therapeutic relief from three orthopedic conditions she suffers from: degenerative disc disease, reflect sympathetic dystrophy, and osteoarthritis. Days later, local law enforcement officials raided the Marlowe residence and found approximately 50 marijuana seedlings. Marlowe maintains that the seized seedlings were being grown for her own medical use and intends to sue both the state and federal government for legal medical access to marijuana.
“No one sick or suffering should have to endure the added stress of living in fear of being searched, jailed, or prosecuted,” Marlowe said. “I want this medicine available for every American citizen that needs it! Nobody should have to perform a criminal act to obtain a safe, natural medicine.”
To support her argument, Marlowe notes that she has letters from two separate physicians confirming her use of medical marijuana. In addition, Marlowe has an official notice from the Social Security Administration stating that “she … relies on marijuana to relieve her symptoms and smokes three grams per day.”
“I will get medical access or an exemption to grow my own [cannabis] before I’m though,” Marlowe affirmed. “How dare our legislators sit up there in Washington and bicker among themselves and treat the very citizens who put them [there] so very heartlessly.
For more information, please contact Jean Marlowe at (704) 625-2958.