Mom faces two years in prison for treating son with...guess what?

[cadaverdog]

from Huffington Post

Angela Brown, 38, of Madison, Minnesota, has been charged with possession of a controlled
illegal substance and child endangerment. A conviction on both counts could result in up to
two years in prison and a $6,000 fine.

Authorities say Brown was administering cannabis oil to her 15-year-old son, Trey Brown.
The teenager suffers from an injury he sustained in April 2011, when he was struck in the head
with a line drive while playing baseball.

Contacted by The Huffington Post on Friday, Angela Brown did not deny giving her son cannabis oil.

"He was in so much pain that he didn't want to live," a tearful Brown told HuffPost.

According to Brown, her son suffers from constant head pain, muscle spasms and seizures.

(More at link)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/angela-brown-cannabis-oil_n_5701147.html

I hope after reading the Brown's story you might find it in your hearts to make a contribution.

[Malraiders]

1. I'm sure big Pharma and the law would rather see him addicted to Oxycodone. N/T

[Tsiyu]

2. Apparently, her state legislators, her local cops

the DA and the judge in her case also wish to see the child addicted to narcotics. Some day they will all need mercy, and I hope none is shown any of the "officials" in her crappy state who allowed this conviction and sentencing

How evil our justice system truly is...

"He would cry himself to sleep," she said. "Nothing we did worked. I was begging doctors for help and then, during one emergency room visit, we had a doctor suggest medicinal cannabis. We started researching it and went to Boulder, Colorado, in March, where we were given an actual medicinal oil -- a 1 to 1 ratio."

Brown said within an hour of giving her son his first dose, the difference in his condition was like night and day.

"Once it hit his system, Trey said the pressure in his brain was relieved," she said. "You could literally see the muscle spasms stopping. He felt amazing."


FUCK YOU MINNESOTA!!!!!

[sybylla]

6. Maybe they should have moved to Colorado

Might have found sympathetic doctors there.

[Tsiyu]

8. Obviously, yeah, since Minnesota is a crappy place to be a sick kid

Fuck Minnesota and its unmerciful attorneys and judges.

I hope everyone involved in this decision suffers soon from a horrible, painful disease and that none of them receive even a second's worth of pain relief or mercy from anyone.

I'm sick of the evil that makes grown people deny children a pain and seizure free existence. The kid wasn't getting high off the oil, he was getting pain relief. How can anyone with a conscience think that warrants jail time?

You have to be a LOWDOWN SCUMSUCKING PIECE OF SHIT to say it's wrong to give a child in agonizing pain some pain relief. And Minnesota - a well as Tennessee, NY, and GA are full of scumsucking adult pieces of SHIT.

[Mnpaul]

9. They were planning to do so

The lame ass Dems in our state fell over themselves to pander to the police and kill any meaningful marijuana reform. Gov. Dayton is the main one responsible. If he wants to represent the police, he should run for police chief and let some run who is interested in representing all of the residents.

[Go Vols]

3. Jury nullification

would be a good thing here.

[Delmette]

7. That was my first thought!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

15. That is our greatest power!

We can kill all the bad laws.

[AtheistCrusader]

18. Trick is, how to inform the jury of it without being thrown in jail.

[Go Vols]

20. Pass more laws like this

On June 18, 2012, New Hampshire passed a law explicitly allowing defense attorneys to inform juries about jury nullification.

[Helen Borg]

4. He has to suffer. That's the American way.

[theaocp]

5. I can't read stuff like this anymore

Give those motherfucking scumsucking pieces of shit that have ANYTHING to do with her prosecution to me with impunity and a room with no windows and I'll go fucking Ramsay Fucking Bolton on their asses.

[Eric J in MN]

10. Even after Minnesota's medical-marijuana law goes into effect

....pain won't be a qualifying condition for getting pot.

The Health Commissioner has the power to add conditions, but pain won't be an initial condition.

Also, the Health Commissioner wrote an op-ed against medical-marijuana, and so I'm not optimistic that he'll add pain as a qualifying condition.

[demigoddess]

21. that's a shame

I have a daughter in pain from back deformity and unable to speak so she hits herself and spends days in bed sometimes not wanting to eat. This man should get emails and letters from parents who are dealing with this and also from people who are taking care of their sons who came back from the latest war with similar wounds.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Well, let's see . . .

Some have suggested jury nullification, and I am sympathetic to that course in a way that I rarely am.

However, the law must be upheld, no one is above the law, no one can choose what laws to obey and which not and all that shit.

Therefore, if it were entirely up to me, I would find Mrs. Brown guilty and sentence her to pay a one dollar fine.

That should send a louder and clearer message about this particular law than jury nullification.

[IdaBriggs]

12. You are forgetting the problem with Mandatory Minimums.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. What I forgot was to add "If that's possible"

If not, then I guess we have to go for jury nullification.

[gopiscrap]

13. Sounds like there needs to be some common sense applied here

[deutsey]

14. "Everything was great, Angela Brown said, until April, when someone called the police."

"I stupidly opened my mouth to the wrong people and I got turned in," she said. "When people ask me questions, I'm an open book. It got me in trouble. The only thing I did wrong was open my mouth."



I'd love to know who the busy-body jerk was who called the police.

[Cha]

16. Poor thing.. I hope to all that's fair she stays out of prison.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. so wrong. so GODDAMM fucking wrong.

[questionseverything]

22. and potus supports it

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/obama-medical-marijuana_n_3791149.html

just a week ago the wh said medical mj should remain illegal

there goes 2014 elections

i just do not understand how he can be so tone deaf to this

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. :(

I don't know either.