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Title: Minnesota mom who gave cannabis oil to son will not face trial - drug warriors furious
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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: 42322
Comments: 118
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. 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. 
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
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#71. To: Deckard (#67)
Hemp Oil: A Case of Mistaken Identity
A half year ago, Project CBD assigned a writer to investigate and report on Medical Marijuana Inc., a penny stock umbrella company that markets “hemp oil” products infused with cannabidiol (CBD), a medicinal component of the cannabis plant. Originally we had hoped to shed light on the complex financial machinations of Medical Marijuana Inc., a subject that had been addressed by a few stock market analysts but not by journalists in general interest publications. Project CBD was poised to publish Aaron Miguel Cantu’s research when we heard complaints from several sources that people were getting sick, in some cases “violently ill,” when they ingested “Real Scientific Hemp Oil,” Medical Marijuana Inc.’s flagship product. We decided to delay the release of our report until we had a chance to look into whether there was any truth to these allegations. Our investigation proceeded in an unanticipated direction, involving analytical lab tests, hemp oil production tours, and a crash course in scientific data regarding toxic solvents, heavy metals, and other contaminants. We have presented our findings in this report.
How many millions has the FDA killed, Pharma-shill? You can't seem to grasp reality here.
There are many other sources... Yawns....anyone can make up a Facebook page. CURE Promotes Research on CBD-Rich Marijuana Despite the fear that CBD-rich marijuana extracts can increase the risk of serious psychiatric disorders and long-term cognitive problems, we believe that the serious long- term effects that accompany the use of anti-epileptic drugs and a lifetime of intractable seizures cannot be ignored. The positive results that some people with epilepsy have been seeing from CBD-rich marijuana extracts are giving so many parents what they have been lacking for so long – hope. Many people with severe epilepsy have tried a myriad of mind-numbing medications, brain surgeries, invasively implanted electrical stimulation devices, diets and alternative therapies, with little to no relief of their symptoms. While there may be some harmful effects from these CBD-rich marijuana extracts, they must be weighed against the very real dangers and challenges a constantly seizing child faces every day – a child who has no other treatments left to try. Epilepsy Foundation : Cannabidiol (CBD) as a Medication for Children with Epilepsy Early results are promising, but more research is needed (and it is happening). Do these "quality growers" know what they're selling? What's the amount of CBD in each drop of oil? How many drops per dosage? How many times per day? Any other cannabinoids in their product? Here's an example of how it's done correctly: "SATIVEX® is provided as a buccal spray in a 5.5 ml vial, with each 100 microlitre spray providing 2.7 mg delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 2.5 mg cannabidiol (CBD)." "Patients should be advised that it might take a week or more to find the optimal dosing level. The median daily dosage of SATIVEX® in the extension phase of the 4-week clinical trial was 5 sprays per day."
Back to the topic at hand… You can present nothing but anecdotes about any claimed success from cannabis oil treatment for seizures because nowhere does anyone track how many families treat their children for seizures with CBD or the results. There are no agencies to thoroughly regulate the ethics of treatment providers and there are no rules to govern the right formulation of content or the amount of dosage. The few, small studies alleging its efficacy are preliminary, inconclusive and often disputed. There are no studies that conclusively document the side effects. Most importantly, no one knows how often it works and does not work. One of the earlier and oft-reported surveys showed that 80 percent who tried CBD eliminated at least three of every four of their seizures. This turned out to be untrue….specialist participating in that study questions that it was overly optimistic. Subsequent studies have shown the response rate might be closer to 30 percent or, perhaps, even lower. So it not the parents just knowing they are taking a gamble, it’s that they don’t even know the odds. Don’t make me keep coming over here to educate you….but if it is necessary, then I will.
After reading Deckard’s posts and all I got was…
No one should have to suffer because you've been on a bum trip since the Summer of Love '67 in Frisco.
However, these reports are anecdotal; no rigorous clinical trials of either medication have been completed yet. Please refrain from posting such unsubstantiated, erroneous propaganda crap?
Please refrain from posting such unsubstantiated, erroneous propaganda crap? 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
Deckard is so caught up in trying to sell fraudulent concepts with unproven methods that he truly earned the tile of LF’s top Snake Oil Salesman. 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.
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. 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 Such drama.
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
Killed any kids today, jackboot?
While I can’t explain the basis for Google’s information, I can however easily understand your ignorance that permits you to accept anecdotal information and case testimony to form your belief that CBD is the elixir that effortlessly conquers and eradicates seizures. Libertarian anarchism has warped your mind. People who understand what both words means can essentially assume that you’re doubly insane. I consider Libertarians as usually fringe, while I consider anarchists as dangerous. You represent the extremes of both. You take libertarianism anarchism to a new level of crazy. It’s easy to see that you belong to an interesting congregation of misfits who like to get as radical as possible. You immediately disaffiliate with anyone who isn’t hardcore enough for you and launch frontal attacks on those who disagree with you. To put it another way, you have a pessimistic view of humanity that always conjures up some false descriptive perverted version of society. Your ideology extremism is far outside the acceptable perceived political center.
His makes the paradoxical absurdity of false logic turn the basically insulting descriptive word “peabrain” into a compliment when applied to him.
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?
I've decided to ignore Deckard. He's actually the joke of the forum.
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
Because I can and because I want to.
Probably the best thing to do...
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. I really enjoyed that story. It is so kool!
I don't think that would irritate you enough....next!
Well, at least he was called out on being a multi account POS. 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. Thanks, in advance mr tater!
I will go search LP’s archive and find the exchange you had with Mel where she kicked your ass so badly that you began to cry, said your house was shot up by illegals and then you became so hysterical that Goldi banned you. I will get back to you after I find that exchange to post here. You wait for me....ya hear!
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.
Dang, that was one exciting thread….wasn’t it? You really lost your cool and blew a gasket….didn’t you? You said illegals did a drive-by shoot out on you house....then whined and cried like a little baby. I gotta go now….and look for that exchange. Catch you later…Robert.
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.
JackelopeBreeder died instantly of a massive heart attack in Sierra Vista. Can’t you ever stop lying, Bucky….even went speaking about your dearly departed friend? Edit: BTW, you never met JackelopeBreeder. You were only acquainted with JB on LP when you were both ardent supporters of Chris Wilcox and kissing his ass all the time.
I thought you had to go? Hank died from a massive murder scheme planned by your little bitch.
(Caption by Gatlin - Picture added by Willie)
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#72. To: Deckard (#71)
#73. To: Gatlin (#72)
“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.
Paul Craig Roberts
#74. To: Gatlin (#69)
https://www.facebook.com/stopthecon
“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.
Paul Craig Roberts
#75. To: TooConservative (#68)
"There are a small number of quality growers for the Charlotte blend."
#76. To: misterwhite (#75)
"SATIVEX® is provided as a buccal spray in a 5.5 ml vial, with each 100 microlitre spray providing 2.7 mg delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 2.5 mg cannabidiol (CBD)."
“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.
Paul Craig Roberts
#77. To: Deckard, hondo68, misterwhite, TooConservative (#73)
How many millions has the FDA killed, Pharma-shill?
The reality you need to grasp HERE is that this thread established by YOU is discussing a “Minnesota mom who gave cannabis oil to her son” and not the FDA, Pothead-shill. Stay on point….go start another idiotic thread is you want to discuss the FDA.
You can't seem to grasp reality here.
#78. To: Deckard, hondo68, misterwhite, TooConservative (#74)
The Realm of Caring Foundation reports that, among the initial cohort of 27 children with epilepsy who received Charlotte’s Web, 23 (85%) experienced a reduction of 50% or more in seizure frequency.
The Realm of Caring Foundation was informally established by the Stanley Brothers.
The Stanley Brothers are in the business to sell marijuana.
Jesse and Joel Stanley, along with three of their brothers, began growing marijuana as a family business in 2008. The five-brother operation producing a cannabis-based oil used to treat children with severe epilepsy plans to massively expand by summer 2015, possibly allowing it to eliminate a 12,000-person, worldwide wait list for the therapeutic oil. Read more here >.
The Realm of Caring Foundation - Stanley Brothers. A report on CBD success - Huh?
Okay, sport…. do you have any other “unbiased” success reports to present?
#79. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#76)
…to use what is shown on this T-shirt!
#80. To: Gatlin, in Wonderland, down the rabbit hole, hippie burnout (#78)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#81. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
No one should have to suffer because the “CBD rush to Colorado is a movement that divides patients from doctors.”
#82. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
No one show have to suffer because No one should have to suffer because in Colorado “the state health department, which manages the patient registry that all children using medical marijuana must join, offers almost no guidance”....they have no data base to rely on for pertinent information.
#83. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
“CBD providers commonly tell newly arrived parents that they should reduce the level of an anti-seizure drug called Onfi before starting CBD because the two could have a dangerous interaction. Parents often reduce the medicine without consulting with their doctors. Doctors at Children’s, though, say they haven’t seen conclusive evidence that CBD has an impact on Onfi levels. Meager research makes it impossible to know who is right.” No one knows when these children suffer because wrong advice is given, it is never reported…
#84. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
“Doctors often lack an understanding of the types of marijuana products their patients are using and are unaware of the sometimes contradictory advice their patients receive” from the providers. No one should have to suffer, but they sometime so…how much and how often, no one knows.
#85. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
The International Cannabidiol Organization of Manufacturers and Research (ICOMR) states in a recent release of an independent laboratory test that found one supplement company selling a cannabinoid product that is verifiable “snake oil”. …but they are suffering because there is no quality control anywhere in the process,
#86. To: hondo68 (#80)
No one should have to suffer because…
“Anyone using a CBD from hemp product please be aware of what you are actually getting b/c it is not what you think. These formulations start with a crude and dirty hemp paste (contaminated with microbial life! I have seen this and these organisms decompose the paste. The paste perhaps even contains residual solvent and other toxins as the extraction is done in CHINA) made in a process that actually renders it unfit for human consumption” … said Tamar Wise said, the former head of science for a hemp oil supplement corporation called Dixie Botanicals as she made a public statement denouncing cannabidiol products made by charlatans and snake oil salesmen in the industry – including her former employer. …but they are suffering because there is no quality control anywhere in the process,
#87. To: Deckard (#74)
Doctors in Colorado and researchers at Stanford University have collected summaries of patient histories suggesting positive impact of CBD in children with epilepsy.
#88. To: Gatlin (#87)
(Edited)
However, these reports are anecdotal; no rigorous clinical trials of either medication have been completed yet.
#89. To: GrandIsland (#88)
Deckard is a snake oil salesman. The quality of his product isn't important just his sales.
Deckard is so caught up in trying to sell fraudulent concepts with unproven methods that he truly earned the tile of LF’s top Snake Oil Salesman. He takes nebulous concepts with questionable, unverifiable validity or benefit and champions then with blind dedication.
#90. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland, hondo68 (#89)
Deckard is a snake oil salesman. The quality of his product isn't important just his sales.
“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.
Paul Craig Roberts
#91. To: Deckard (#90)
#92. To: GrandIsland (#91)
“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.
Paul Craig Roberts
#93. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#90)
When I do a Google search for “cannabis cures seizures” … it shows “about 83,900 results.”
Then when I search for “cannabis does not cure seizures.” … it show “about 48,000,000 results.”
#94. To: GrandIsland, Deckard (#91)
… and now I hate children? lol
It doesn’t amaze me that he can make irrational charges and display behavior as vicious as any hardened criminal defendant….he learned his lessons well.
#95. To: Gatlin, Deckard (#93)
#96. To: Gatlin (#94)
#97. To: buckeroo (#95)
(Edited)
Why do you wrap your silly little discussions within a teenie- weenie HTML box with tiny, little font?
I will continue using this format, but now with great satisfaction knowing that it pisses you off.
Are there any other ways I can irritate you?
#98. To: GrandIsland (#96)
I've decided to ignore Deckard. He's actually the joke of the forum.
#99. To: Gatlin (#97)
Are there any other ways I can irritate you?
#100. To: buckeroo (#99)
(Edited)
#101. To: buckeroo, Gatlin (#95)
Can you grow up and just discuss the issues without all the keyboard strokes of a Liberace in disguise?
#102. To: buckeroo, Tater (#95)
Why do you wrap your silly little discussions within a teenie-weenie HTML box with tiny, little font?
#103. To: Gatlin (#100)
next!
#104. To: buckeroo (#103)
(Edited)
I know what will work…
#105. To: Gatlin (#104)
#106. To: buckeroo (#105)
It wasn't my fault …
It was your fault that you stupidly posted your full name and address on a forum and Mel linked to it to so the entire forum world learned who Buckeroo really is and lots of other information.
#107. To: Gatlin (#106)
#108. To: buckeroo (#105)
(Edited)
She murdered one of my best friends ... JackelopeBreeder; she had her Mexican friends do him in.
Tell me, Bucky….how do Mexicans “murder” someone by causing them to have a massive heart attack?
#109. To: Gatlin (#108)
#110. To: buckeroo (#109)
(Edited)
I thought you had to go? Hank died from a massive murder scheme planned by your little bitch.
Ah, the “Old Mexican Purple Pill Heart Attack Trick” … you say?
Did they slip it to him in a taco?
I am going soon, Robert.
But, I’m having too much fun laughing at you right now.
#111. To: buckeroo, Willie Green (#110)
I leave you with this...
Yep, and every time I break wind from the
beans the sound it makes is: "Buckeroo."
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