Terminal Cancer Patient Rushed To Hospital During Felony Trial For Medical Pot (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

[Garion_55]

actually i am choosing to not include the photo because its just too nasty. its a picture of the tumors growing on the guy. go to the site if you want to see it.

whats even nastier is that any human being would prosecute this man for this 'crime' and not only that, he CANT EVEN USE HIS ILLNESS AS A JUSTIFICATION IN COURT.

when i read that i thought ' that cant be right' but its true. the judge told him that he cant bring up in his trial the fact that his pot was for medical purposes. he has to sit there and let the prosecutor accuse him of dealing and all he can do is say is no, thats not why he had the pot but he cant tell the jury exactly why did did have it and why that much of it. ITS CRAP!@@#!!@##!@!@#

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/31/iowa-man-denied-medical-marijuana-use-defense/







A 48-year-old terminal cancer patient was rushed to the hospital from an Iowa courthouse Monday during his trial over felony charges for growing marijuana he uses as a treatment for his rare condition.

Brian Wellner of Iowa's Quad-City Times' first reported that paramedics took Benton Mackenzie, who was expected to take the stand in his trial in Scott County District Court on Monday, from the courtroom to a local hospital after he complained of extreme pain and hallucinations related to his angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer of the blood vessels which has produced large lesions on Mackenzie's skin.

Despite Mackenzie's deteriorating condition, his trial is expected to be completed Friday, Linda Bowman, the judicial trial court supervisor at the Scott County Clerk's Office, told The Huffington Post. If Mackenzie is found guilty, he faces at least three years in prison -- a punishment that he's said equates to a death sentence.

"If I'm found guilty at all, I'm a dead man," Mackenzie told Quad-City in May.




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[RKP5637]

1. What a shit hole place to do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Eleanors38]

2. The core attraction to prohibition is the promise of punishment.

It is a means to satisfy a sadistic urge, all under the rubric of righteousness and moral cant. As Huxley said, "It is the sweetest of moral pleasures."

[kestrel91316]

3. Exactly