Best of luck to you, Markass. I'm glad you have a court-appointed attorney on your side. In Oklahoma or any other state where medical MJ isn't legal or recognized as within the bounds of the law, a judge isn't going to be able to consider medical necessity a mitigating circumstance toward an acquittal. Because he's bound to judge within the constraints of the municipal, district and/or state law under which he operates and makes his rulings, he quite literally can't even admit something outside the bounds of jurisprudence for consideration. He can hear it with his ears, obviously. He has functional auditory senses. But in your state where medically necessary cannabis isn't legally sanctioned, that information about medical use will be "moot."

The procedural stuff won't be scary at all. You'll be amazed at how low-key and legal-businessy it all is, and how quickly it'll be over. You'll all step up to the front and the judge will hear the city attorney, if that's who's functioning as the "prosecutor." Then he'll listen to testimony from the arresting officer if he shows up. Then he'll hear from your counsel, who can question the officer and put you on the stand in your defense. Then that'll be it. The judge will make his ruling according to set guidelines in your state. It'll be simple and painless (until any probationary terms or fines are given) and very routine. Be courteous and respectful and wear something that makes you look like what an Oklahoma judge will deem an intelligent, clean-cut, successful technology student. There will be nothing remotely panic-inducing or shameful about it.

Except, of course, the provincial and narrow-minded view that cannabis should be illegal while nearly any Oklahoman who can walk upright can--and does--drink, drive fuel-inefficient heavy duty pickups, own lots of firearms, and do just about anything else he wants to. You know, a lot like it is here across the border in Texas!
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Court in two days..wish me luck, I'll need it Hey everyone...I was arrested at the beginning of december for having about a gram of marijuana in a flashlight keychain of mine..I was arrested at a technology center for which I've attended for the past couple of years, this being my third.. Oklahoma law does not accept the defense of medical necessity as a basis for acquittal on a marijuana charge..However, I'm going to have it mentioned to the judge that I've used it a couple of times a week for the past two years to mitigate my back pain Rating: 5