Return Marijuana Growing Equipment To Patient
Aurora, Colorado: Dana May, who suffers from chronic pain, won a major legal victory last week when the federal government agreed to return all of his marijuana-growing equipment.
The assistant U.S. attorney also informed NORML Legal Committee member and Mr. May’s criminal defense attorney, Robert J Corry, Jr., that the feds will not prosecute May for any crime. However, the marijuana Mr. May was caught with will not be returned.
Executive Director of the NORML Foundation Allen St. Pierre said that Mr. May and his partner are genuine heroes for standing up to federal law enforcement and “advocating for the common sense principle that if medical marijuana is legal for approved patients in Colorado (and nine other states), and if the government fails to provide for safe and legal access to a physician-recommended medicine, then Mr. May is guilty at worse of self-preservation.”
May’s doctor signed his legal forms in 2002 permitting him to grow and use marijuana under Colorado law to help treat his chronic pain in his legs and feet as a result of a 1995 accident. Mr. May called his victory bittersweet and complained that anti-drug personnel should target hard drug sellers rather then “going after little pot growers like me.”
“I think this is a big step because the DEA giving my equipment back they know what I’m going to do with it and it’s like they’re condoning it,” said Mr. May.
You can read more about federal cases against state-sanctioned medical marijuana users at:
http://www.canorml.org/news/fedmmjcases.html
For more information relating to Dana May’s legal efforts against the federal government, contact NLC member and Denver criminal defense attorney Robert Corry Jr, at 303-634-2244.