Ohio Quadriplegic Charged With
Felony After Detective Dressed In Postal Uniform
Delivers 3 Pounds Of Marijuana From Switzerland.
"The government declared war on drugs,
and they are harassing the sick, dying and disabled all over the country.
The government’s idea of compassion is a pair of handcuffs."
(Marijuananews note: Even after all these years,
I still cannot get used to this sort of thing. I read it and reread it, and I still cannot
understand it, any more than I can understand dragging a man behind a car. Of course,
only 3 people did that. This cruelty is being perpetrated as matter of national policy.
This is very good journalism, but the story won’t be widely reported.
Have the sick, dying and disabled liberated us yet?)
DISABLED MAN FACES ANOTHER DRUG CHARGE
From The Associated Press
February 24, 1999
OREGON, Ohio (AP) -- A quadriplegic who was convicted three years
ago of growing marijuana in his backyard for medicinal purposes is facing another drug
charge.
Police in this Toledo suburb have charged Daniel Asbury, 42, of Oregon, with felony
drug possession after he allegedly received three pounds of marijuana in the mail from a
supplier in Sweden.
(Marijuananews note: It was actually from Switzerland.)
See
Florida Judge
Says 15 Seconds Not Enough Time To Flush 2.8 Kilos of Marijuana Down the Drain
– And Dismisses Key West Medical Marijuana Case -- Marijuananews Special Report
A police detective dressed in a postal uniform delivered the package addressed to
Asbury on Jan. 4 after U.S. Customs Service officials intercepted it.
Asbury was given a summons and turned himself in to Oregon Municipal Court on Feb. 10.
Oregon police are awaiting the results of an analysis of the package’s contents by
the Ohio Bureau of Identification and Investigation to verify it is marijuana, Lt.
Virginia Todd said on Tuesday. She said the case will be presented to a Lucas County grand
jury if the contents test positive.
Paralyzed from a spinal injury suffered in a fall nearly 19 years
ago, Asbury says he uses marijuana to alleviate pain.
Asbury, who gets around in a motorized wheelchair, was convicted of aggravated
trafficking in 1996 after Oregon police seized about a dozen marijuana plants that were
growing in his yard.
Asbury received a suspended prison sentence on the trafficking charge. The judge placed
him on probation for two years and warned him to stay away from illicit drugs.
Since then, Asbury has been active in the fight to legalize
marijuana for medicinal uses. In 1997 he made a five-day trip to Columbus in his
wheelchair to raise awareness on the medicinal uses of the plant.
He appeared in August in a black-and-white striped prisoner’s costume at a rally
in front of the Toledo Municipal Court to protest marijuana laws.
"The government declared war on drugs and they are
harassing the sick, dying and disabled all over the country," Asbury told The Blade
of Toledo on Tuesday. "The government’s idea of compassion is a pair of
handcuffs."
© The Associated Press, 1999
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