Potential pot test case settled before trial
Rocky Mountain News
Published May 27, 2008 at 11:45 p.m.
A possible court challenge to marijuana enforcement in Denver ended Tuesday when a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver pleaded guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia.
Timothy Arndt, 24, entered the plea just as he was set to go to trial in Denver County Court on a charge of possessing one gram of marijuana.
By accepting the plea bargain to a lesser charge, Arndt was able to preserve his college financial aid, said Mason Tvert of SAFER, a group that advocates for legalizing marijuana.
SAFER had hoped that trying the case would have tested the impact of a citizens initiative passed by Denver voters in 2005 that amended city ordinances to remove penalties for adults possessing less than an ounce of marijuana.
Tvert said in five earlier potential test cases, city prosecutors either dismissed charges or offered a plea bargain to a lesser charge.
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May 28, 2008
3:08 a.m.
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windskull writes:
I am allergic to both OTC & Prescription Pain Medications, my disability has left me unable travel the over 200 miles one way to the MMJ Clinic whose participating doctors will not come out here on Colorado`s Rural Eastern Plains where
citizens pay higher across the board costs for everything including centralized services routinely enjoyed by urban corridor residents in the form of fully staffed functional hospitals with ready access to physicians who acknowledge the medicinal properties of cannabis without fear from archaic federal retributions while permanently injured persons like myself continue to needlessly suffer through discrimination fostered by these very conveniences!
Russell Voice-Joes,Colorado
May 28, 2008
7:29 a.m.
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seebox writes:
Sounds to me like this college student was more concerned for his college funds and his rights as a student rather than his rights as a Denver resident............like Limbaugh says "Follow the Money"...............