LF: Minnesota mom who gave cannabis oil to son will not face trial

Title: Minnesota mom who gave cannabis oil to son will not face trial - drug warriors furious
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
URL Source: http://www.twincities.com/localnews ... a-brown-madison-has-signed-off
Published: Apr 17, 2015
Author: Tom Cherveny
Post Date: 2015-04-20 21:21:27 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 39076
Comments: 118

Angela Brown, left, visits with supporters, including Patrick McClellan, outside the Chippewa County Courthouse in Montevideo, Minn., in September. McClellan, of Minnesotans for Compassionate Care, testified at the Legislature for the bill that will allow the use of medical cannabis. He made the trip from Bloomington to show support for Brown. Forum News Service: Tom Cherveny

Angela Brown of Madison, Minn., has signed off on an agreement that will lead to the dismissal of a child endangerment charge against her for giving her 15-year-old son cannabis oil to treat his seizures and pain from a traumatic brain injury.

Brown said her attorney, Michael Hughes of Bend, Ore., informed her a week ago that he and Lac qui Parle County Attorney Rick Stulz worked out an agreement that will allow for a "continuance for dismissal'' of the child endangerment charge. If she pays a $100 court fee and has no violations for 90 days, the gross misdemeanor charge will be dropped.

Brown said she signed the agreement Thursday and expected it to be entered in court by the Lac qui Parle County attorney.

Brown had been set to stand trial on the charge Wednesday.

"I was shell-shocked and actually upset; he's getting exactly what he wants,'' said Brown of her initial reaction when asked by her attorney if she would OK the agreement.

Brown learned of the agreement while in the Twin Cities on April 10 for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and the debut showing of "Pot (The Movie),'' which documents the fight for medical marijuana, and in which she appears.

By approving the agreement, Brown said she spares her son Trey the trauma of having to testify in the trial. The prosecution intended to subpoena Trey, according to Brown. She said it would have been traumatic for her son to have to testify.

She said her attorney filed statements from her son's medical provider warning of the harm it could cause him.

Brown was charged in June with child endangerment after surrendering a small amount of cannabis oil to law enforcement. The family had traveled to Colorado to obtain the oil to treat Trey. He suffered the traumatic brain injury when he was struck by a baseball at age 11.

Brown and her husband, David, believe their son would be eligible to receive the cannabis oil when use of medical cannabis for some medical conditions becomes legal in Minnesota on July 1.

The legal fight has been a financial blow to the family, and the ordeal very stressful for the parents and their three children, Brown said. They have been fearful that she would be taken away and put in prison. She and her husband have a gofundme.com fundraising site to accept funds for their medical and other costs, and now the costs to move to a new home.

Brown said they have decided to move to Colorado where David has accepted a position with his former employer, the Corrections Corporation of America.

The ordeal has put Angela Brown into the limelight as a spokeswoman for those calling for laws to allow for the use of medical cannabis.

Trey Brown, center, looks at a cellphone photo taken of him outside the Chippewa County Courthouse in Montevideo, Minn., in September. Trey's mother was facing criminal charges at the time for giving her 15-year-old son medical cannabis to treat his pain from a traumatic brain injury. (Forum News Service: Tom Cherveny)

Her family's story is part of the newly released documentary film, and Brown has appeared on national television programs to tell it.

While it has been difficult for her family, she believes the ordeal has served some good in that she has been able to call attention to the issue. She remains committed to it.

"I'm going to continue to fight. It's not done,'' she said.

No one should have to suffer because you've been on a bum trip since the Summer of Love '67 in Frisco.

Deckard is a snake oil salesman. The quality of his product isn't important just his sales.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

Gatlin and GrandIsland hate children and wish to see them suffer by not allowing parents to do what they believe is best for their own children, using whatever means necessary to alleviate their suffering including the use of non-fed.gov approved medicines.

To put it another way, they are both fascists who believe that ALL children belong to the almighty State and both of them bravely cheered Reno killing the children at Waco.

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.

It was pointed out that your medical studies that you bank your credibility on are about as official as some fat southern slob saying PBR beer causes the drinker to fart less.... and now I hate children? lol

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

Why do you wrap your silly little discussions within a teenie-weenie HTML box with tiny, little font?

Can you grow up and just discuss the issues without all the keyboard strokes of a Liberace in disguise?

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

Absolutely, tater. Can you oblige the channel with revisiting some details about your professional military career as a Sargent in the USAF? I can't find the post but at one time you said you peeled more potatoes than any other kitchen help.

He can't play all the same games he did to ruin LP, but he will do what he can here.

I agree. It's annoying and I more often than not don't read his remarks, for that reason.

Can you oblige the channel about the reasons for your disturbing insistence of always defending a fascist government? I recognize that you may down play your lofty considerations but, at the very least, please try.

It wasn't my fault she lived next to the Mexican border with a little red lite on her trailer. She murdered one of my best friends ... JackelopeBreeder; she had her Mexican friends do him in.

The fact that little, dirty bitch went out of her way to spend days, if not weeks, to research mine and Hank's affiliation with Chris Simcox. It all just chapped her hide when she couldn't get her daily money from the illegals she was importing from down South.

I thought you had to go? Hank died from a massive murder scheme planned by your little bitch.

I tend to like it. It's a visual clue for content I should just skip over. If I'm bored enough, I do skim his posts.

Eternal rest grant unto JackelopeBreeder, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace. Amen.
And may all the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen

Well yeah...
I'm not defending bucky's conspiracy theory,
but I'd have a massive heart attack, too, if I knew that the Mexican Mafia was coming to chop my head off.

Bucky has been known many time to take "artistic license" to dramatize some event that did not happen, as he did here..

No police report was ever filed and there was not a single newspaper account this happened.

I vaguely recall LP feuds over the MinuteMen/Gilchrest/Simcox/BorderFence fundraising fraud fiasco... Wasn't Alan Keyes a part of that somehow as well?

LOL! Even though I oppose illegal immigration, I tried to stay out of the crossfire of those forum feuds... there was just way too much BS being flung around, I never knew what to believe...

The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.