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Home | Legal Issues | Jason Lauve Case | Videos | Archives | About Us | Contact Us | Links Case of Jason LauveTrial Set for Medical Cannabis Patient Jason LauvePress Contact: [Boulder, CO] -- The trial has been set for Monday, August 3 for Jason Lauve, a disabled Boulder County resident who is being prosecuted by Boulder County for legal possession of medicinal cannabis. The case is important for all Colorado medical marijuana patients, since Jason was in 100% compliance with all the laws and regulations required to use medicinal cannabis in Colorado, yet he was still arrested and prosecuted. The Boulder District Attorney's office wants to make an example of Jason and in the process create fear among the thousands of sick and dying people that benefit safely from medicinal cannabis in Colorado every day. Cannabis is a Constitutional right for Colorado citizens. Article 18, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution, known as Colorado's Medical Marijuana Law, allows patients with debilitating medical conditions to use cannabis as medicine if their physician recommends it. Jason was arrested when the Boulder County Drug Task Force raided his home last summer. Jason presented the police with his valid Medical Marijuana Registry ID card issued by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which is supposed to make him exempt from the state's criminal laws regarding cannabis possession. Instead of respecting his legal right to use cannabis as medicine, Boulder County destroyed his garden, seized all his medicine, arrested him, and charged him with felony marijuana possession. Jason suffers from severe chronic pain from an accident at Eldora Ski Area in 2004, in which he was seriously injured by a snowboarder. The accident left Jason with crippling spinal injuries. He is in severe constant pain and uses cannabis as an inexpensive and safer alternative to the dangerous and addictive narcotics and nerve blockers that most chronic pain patients are forced to take. According to his physician's recommendation, he had only enough cannabis that was medically necessary to adequately treat his condition. Jason's attorney, Rob Corry, has provided Boulder DA Stan Garnett with Jason's complete medical records along with statements from Jason's physicians and therapeutic cannabis experts to prove that Jason is a legitimate patient. But DA Garnett refuses to drop the charges. "The Boulder District Attorney should be protecting patients' rights under the Constitution, not prosecuting and punishing them for their legal choice in medicine," says Rob Corry, attorney for Jason Lauve. Rob Corry and Jason Lauve will be speaking at a talk on "Medical
Marijuana: How Patients and Caregivers Can Protect Themselves"
on Tuesday, July 28 at 7pm at the University of Colorado in Boulder,
Room UMC 247. Click here for more information on the talk: ---
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