Los Osos Woman Sues Sheriff for MMJ Taken and Destroyed Illegally

[Payaso]

Hats off to the woman standing up for her rights and suing the local sherriff for replacing the medical marijuana they took from her - illegally. She was a valid medical patient with a recommendation from her doctor.

A Los Osos woman has filed a lawsuit seeking $36,000 to replace six pounds of medical marijuana the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department seized from her home and then destroyed.

Before 1988, Kimberly Marshall worked in the foreclosure industry. Her life changed after she was given a blood transfusion contaminated with hepatitis.

Following a liver cancer diagnosis, doctors informed Marshall she had less than a year to live. Though currently in remission, daily nausea, a side effect of the cancer treatment, has caused her weight to drop to as low as 98 pounds.

In addition, a car accident left Marshall with two herniated discs, a fractured disc and a broken disc. Marshall has endured two back surgeries, has constant pain and for days at a time is bedridden. Unable to bend down to tie her shoes, she wears slip-ons.

The 46-year-old single parent refuses to take the eight Vicodin a day she is currently prescribed, selecting instead to use medical cannabis to kill the pain and reduce the nausea.

“They (doctors) want me to be on prescription drugs,” Marshall said. “I am a single parent and I can’t be high on drugs where I can’t think.”

This is the crux of the matter...moralists are still arguing that so-called medical marijuana patients are nothing but stoners in disguise. When will they wake up to the reality? Medical pot used properly will not get you stoned out like the pharmaceuticals do!

Rob Bryn, spokesman for the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department ... went on to question the legality of Marshall possessing six pounds of marijuana.

In response, Marshall said that she uses the medical marijuana in a number of ways that require a greater amount of the plant such as making butter from it, vaporizing the buds and making a poultice to treat muscle aches. Marshall, who goes through approximately six pounds of cannabis every 18 months, notes that buying marijuana in bulk is a cost saver.


“If they thought it was an excessive amount, she still had the right to prove she was in legal possession of that property,” Koory said. “They denied her that right.”

 

[funknug420]

hope everything goes well with her, so sad to see that her of all people would get fucked with. Ill deff have her in prayers

 

[!!!]

Glad she's standing up for herself. This'll make the cops think twice before fucking around from now on, even just to avoid the paperwork and publicity of a pending lawsuit.

 

[IPuFF]

Can we have a link to the article?

 

[vta]

Can we have a link to the article?

Here is what I posted yesterday, with link. She won and got 20K on Monday!

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=3544761#post3544761

 

[Skip]

I'd like to see PROOF that the cannabis was destroyed and not sold back by the P.D. for personal profit.

 

[Mitt Romulan]

moralists are still arguing that so-called medical marijuana patients are nothing but stoners in disguise.

I think the issue people have is how stoners use the small percentage of terminally ill people like Kimberly Marshall to justify using medical mj themselves.

 

[twiztidbudsmoke]

damn cops! they probly smoked that shit back at the station

 

[rubbanutz420]

One word that describes those cops and their actions is HATEFULL......no compassion at all from those guys. They should lose their jobs...And Im glad she won, If more people would stand up and go toe to toe with the local police, then I bet this kind of bullshit would stop, and fast. they dont want bad press and or lawsuits. If i were a cop, I wouldn't even risk it by taking someones shit. But I guess thats whay Im not a pig. OINK OINK.

 

[Hydrosun]

Well she is what I would call a true med patient.
I hope she wins.

The only way to change the way that the government runs around randomly violating human rights is to hit them in the pocketbook. One punitive lawsuit in California's deficit ridden economy is all it will take for huge sweeping policy changes.

Good post Pasayo.

Well not the only way. Mr. Jefferson and his refreshing the Tree of Liberty idea works quite well also.

 

[Hydrosun]

One word that describes those cops and their actions is HATEFULL......no compassion at all from those guys. They should lose their jobs...And Im glad she won, If more people would stand up and go toe to toe with the local police, then I bet this kind of bullshit would stop, and fast. they dont want bad press and or lawsuits. If i were a cop, I wouldn't even risk it by taking someones shit. But I guess thats whay Im not a pig. OINK OINK.

How about CRIMINAL instead of hateful, how many of you out there believe these ass clowns destroyed 6lbs instead of stealing it for themselves?

 

[Hydrosun]

I think the issue people have is how stoners use the small percentage of terminally ill people like Kimberly Marshall to justify using medical mj themselves.

I think the issue is a mater of personal freedom and I for one smoke a shit load of MJ and I don't use any crippled fuck to do it.

How is it I am USING Kimberly Marshall. Please check yourself before accusing stones of misconduct. There are a shit load of stoners on this site.

 

[CANNATOPIA]

I hope she Wins & I wish her the best of luck!

 

[Mitt Romulan]

I think the issue is a mater of personal freedom and I for one smoke a shit load of MJ and I don't use any crippled fuck to do it.

How is it I am USING Kimberly Marshall. Please check yourself before accusing stones of misconduct. There are a shit load of stoners on this site.

I said people LIKE kimberly (as in terminally ill).You must not be from CA, where people protest and have the severely disabled in the front of the rally to make everybody feel bad.

 

[Hydrosun]

I said people LIKE kimberly (as in terminally ill).You must not be from CA, where people protest and have the severely disabled in the front of the rally to make everybody feel bad.

Using milky eyed Jim in a march is all well and good, but saying that is a bad thing or then insinuating it is bad to be an MJ smoker doesn't fly here.

No I don't live in CA but I do smoke there with friends and we're way to lazy to march.

Why should any of us smokers care what the prohibitionists think? Also if my position is total personal freedom for everyone to do with their body as they want, why should an opinion poll determine if I get an abortion or an OZ of Purple Kush?

 

[kmk420kali]

I said people LIKE kimberly (as in terminally ill).You must not be from CA, where people protest and have the severely disabled in the front of the rally to make everybody feel bad.

I guess it is a matter of perspective--
I see it as having them up front as a sign of Respect--
215 is not only for the Terminally ill...it is for anybody who meets the State Requirements-- To say or insinuate that those that are not in a wheelchair or dying are less deserving of the benefits of MMJ is untrue, unfair, and hurts the whole movement--

 

[420stoner]

stupid pigs ! im glad she won!!!

 

[David762]

Needed: Restitution, Pain & Suffering, & Punitive $$

Needed: Restitution, Pain & Suffering, & Punitive $$

Here is what I posted yesterday, with link. She won and got 20K on Monday!

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=3544761#post3544761

This Los Osos woman should have gotten the full amount of $36,000, instead of the $20,000, if for nothing other than pain & suffering. If I were on the jury for such a trial, there would have been punitive damages included as well.

Betcha a $1 to a donut that the local LEOs didn't destroy her medicine in the county incinerator -- they probably used the evidence in multiple undercover sting operations, passed it out to C.I.s like candy, or sold it on the streets themselves and pocketed the cash.
The best equipped, most heavily armed, most violent street gangs in the USA today are LEOs themselves.

 

[PotentGreen]

This Los Osos woman should have gotten the full amount of $36,000, instead of the $20,000, if for nothing other than pain & suffering. If I were on the jury for such a trial, there would have been punitive damages included as well.


Betcha a $1 to a donut that the local LEOs didn't destroy her medicine in the county incinerator -- they probably used the evidence in multiple undercover sting operations, passed it out to C.I.s like candy, or sold it on the streets themselves and pocketed the cash.
The best equipped, most heavily armed, most violent street gangs in the USA today are LEOs themselves.

Amen. Organized crime at it's worst.

 

[megayields]

Good for her!