Power of lawyers: CU student caught in medical-marijuana debate

[flyingimam]

CU student caught in medical-marijuana debate

DENVER - A University of Colorado at Boulder student who is a medical-marijuana cardholder expects campus police on Monday to return marijuana that they had confiscated from him.

CU officials said student privacy laws kept them from discussing the case.

Edward Nicholson had threatened a lawsuit after he said campus police confiscated less than 2 ounces of pot from his dorm room.

Nicholson, 20, said he was holding the drug for his 23-year-old brother, a chronic-pain sufferer. State law allows marijuana to be used if recommended by a doctor for sufferers of debilitating medical conditions.

Patients' caregivers must carry state-issued medical-marijuana cards. Nicholson is a cardholder, he said, because he says pot is easier to buy in Boulder than in Aurora, where his family lives.

Nicholson said that after campus officers smelled pot coming from his dorm room last winter, campus authorities threatened to suspend him for a semester, to commit him to community service and drug and alcohol testing, and have him write a paper about the harmful effects of the drug on his schooling.

After Nicholson's lawyer Robert Corry threatened a lawsuit, CU officials abandoned the case.

Nicholson now lives off campus.

CU officials revised their policies this fall to ban students from storing marijuana in their dorms, even if they are medical marijuana cardholders. However, first-year students can be released from the on-campus residency requirement if they are cardholders, said CU lawyer Jeremy Hueth.

There are 1,955 cardholders in Colorado, according to last year's statistics from the state health department.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said in response to the CU case that the medical-marijuana law has become a "front for widespread marijuana distribution."

"The proponents of these laws make them intentionally ambiguous, causing significant problems for law enforcement in Colorado and elsewhere," he said Friday.

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flyingimam Reviewed by flyingimam on 09-22-2008. Power of lawyers: CU student caught in medical-marijuana debate CU student caught in medical-marijuana debate DENVER - A University of Colorado at Boulder student who is a medical-marijuana cardholder expects campus police on Monday to return marijuana that they had confiscated from him. CU officials said student privacy laws kept them from discussing the case. Edward Nicholson had threatened a lawsuit after he said campus police confiscated less than 2 ounces of pot from his dorm room. Nicholson, 20, said he was holding the drug for his Rating: 5

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UPDATE

CU police return marijuana to student

By Vanessa Miller (Contact)
Originally published 01:34 p.m., September 22, 2008
Updated 01:34 p.m., September 22, 2008

University of Colorado police on Monday returned marijuana to a CU student -- who's a medical-marijuana cardholder -- after officers in May confiscated about two ounces of the drug from the freshman outside his residence hall room.

Now-CU sophomore Edward Nicholson, 20, had threatened to sue the university after he said CU police confiscated marijuana that he's legally certified to administer to his brother -- who Nicholson said suffers from chronic, debilitating pain from football injuries.

Nicholson said he's been, buying, holding and administering the drug to his 23-year-old brother for more than a year. State law allows marijuana to be used if it's recommended by a doctor for debilitating medical conditions.

Caregivers, like Nicholson, must carry state-issued medical-marijuana cards. Nicholson is a cardholder for his brother, he said, because he said pot is easier to buy in Boulder than in Aurora, where his family lives.

Nicholson said he feels he was "targeted" last year when CU police smelled pot coming from his residence hallway and assumed it was coming from his dorm room. After confiscating the drug in May, CU officials threatened to suspend Nicholson for a semester, require he do 24 hours of community service and comply with drug and alcohol testing. He also was charged to write a paper about the harmful effects of the drug on his schooling.

CU officials dropped the case against Nicholson after his attorney, Robert Corry, threatened a lawsuit. Nicholson now lives off campus.

CU officials also revised their housing policy this fall to ban students from storing marijuana in their dorms, even if they're medical-marijuana cardholders. Freshmen can, however, be released from the on-campus residency requirement if they are cardholders, said CU lawyer Jeremy Hueth.

There are 1,955 cardholders in Colorado, according to last year's statistics from the state health department.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said about the CU case that the medical-marijuana law has become a "front for widespread marijuana distribution."

"The proponents of these laws make them intentionally ambiguous, causing significant problems for law enforcement in Colorado and elsewhere," he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

CU police return marijuana to student : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera
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[Esoteric416]

So the leagal system CAN work both ways. Nice

[flyingimam]

So the leagal system CAN work both ways. Nice

it was designed to work both ways. somewhere along the ride, one big, scary, powerful mofo hijacked it from the rest of the riders and has since been driving it in 1 directions with minor stops caused by other riders... until we can get our ride back and put it into reverse, we still gonna have to see the "front" and scenes that the hijacker likes us to see.

boy even i find this hard to understand upon reading again, but im gonna leave it this way... whats wrong with weird sayings

[Storm Crow]

"John Suthers said about the CU case that the medical-marijuana law has become a "front for widespread marijuana distribution."

"The proponents of these laws make them intentionally ambiguous, causing significant problems for law enforcement in Colorado and elsewhere," he said."


Maybe since about 75% of the American public (his bosses!) support MMJ, we ought to try something new- like legalizing ALL medical usage- from OTC headache cure to cancer! THAT would certainly cure any "significant problems for law enforcement in Colorado and elsewhere."

Our economy is in a financial crisis, let's stop wasting money on "weed control"! Helicopters are expensive to run, but they are criss-crossing the country, looking for plants to destroy! Millions of man-hours are wasted in the mid-west, trying to eliminate "ditch weed", feral hemp which is just a weed bearing little or no THC. The value is artificially raised to make the DEA "look good". All of this is on the tax-payer's (your) money.

And folks don't realize that local cannabis growers are often the community's big spenders. A chunk of that "X dollars worth of cannabis" money would have bought clothes, food, gas, and other "luxury" items from the community. Losing a few local growers in rural California, can affect the whole community.

As soon as cannabis is freed, and every "granny" has a few plants tucked in among the roses, the price will plummet! Organized crime will find other more profitable ventures. They follow the money! (I want to see $10 ounces again!)

I think "herbal medicine" will experience an upswing in popularity - cannabis's popularity will get folks wondering about other herbal cures. More studies will happen. (Big pharma will NOT be happy.)

And think of the children! In Holland, their rates of underage cannabis use is WAY LOWER than the US. And states with MMJ have dropping numbers of underage users! After all, it just isn't that glamorous to be using the same stuff as your granny uses for her arthritis! No more "forbidden fruit" temptation.


As soon as cannabis is legal for anyone to use, we can stop throwing out money away and.......

help out schools. Children are our future...invest in them.

fix the roads- they are crumbling!

provide help for the homeless.... whether from a personal disaster or a national one.

fix the levies along the Mississippi and replant them with hemp to hold the soil- like they used to be!

And, and, and..............

Granny :hippy: