[DreamsofTesla]

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Just after a Miami Herald article on the popularity of medical marijuana with the voters of Florida, a police raid “coincidentally” happened to an activist mentioned in the piece.
Cathy Jordan, after whom the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act is named, was raided shortly after 2 p.m. on Monday, February 25, by deputies and detectives with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office “drug intervention unit,” who were wearing ski-masks, according to her husband, Robert.



Now, I don’t know about you, but just imagining a bunch of ski-mask wearing thugs terrorizing a lady in a wheelchair goes beyond even my day-to-day journalistic cynicism. This is downright sickening. To use Cathy Jordan’s fame in the area of medicinal cannabis against her — even as she uses the herb to battle her Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral scelrosis, or ALS) — is the lower than low.


Cathy Jordan




Robert Jordan, 64, said he had just awoke from a nap in his easy chair when he saw two deputies coming toward the house with their guns drawn.

“I ran out and said, ‘What are you doing here?’ ” Jordan said. “They said, ‘We have probable cause. You are growing marijuana.’ I said, ‘It’s medicine for my wife. I know people use that an excuse, but this is true.’ ”


After an argument, Jordan said he (very unwisely, mind you) agreed to sign a document allowing authorities to walk through to “check if they were operating a grow house.” (NEVER sign anything agreeing for the cops to search your place. If they have probable cause, make them use it.If not, make them do their jobs and get a goddamned warrant.)




Bob and Cathy Jordan. Cathy has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; she says marijuana relieves muscle spasms and increases her appetite
[Thomas Bender/Sarasota Herald-Tribune]


Cathy Jordan has fought for the past 16 years for the legalization of medical marijuana in Florida.

No arrests were immediately made in the raid, according to Robert Jordan, but charges are pending. Twenty-three cannabis plants, including two nearly mature waist-high plants Cathy uses for her treatment plan — along with a crop of seedlings — were confiscated by the cops.


“Once they turn the information in, I am subject to arrest,” Robert Jordan said.


Dave Bristow, a sheriff’s office spokesman, showed just how useless he is as a public servant on Monday night, refusing to say whether any arrests were made or even if the raid took place.
“My wife is not happy,” Jordan said. “It really upset her. I am very protective of my wife. She can’t feed herself. She got really upset and started crying.


“None of this should have happened,” Robert Jordan said.
Back in 1998, Cathy had told the Herald that she lights up a joint before bed each night.


“I regained my appetite after I started smoking,” she said at the time. “It helps the pain and helps me to relax.”


Florida Sen. Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth), sponsor of the Senate bill to legalize medical marijuana in the state, said on Monday that he was angry about the raid on the Jordans’ home.


“Do we want to be the kind of state that raids the home of a woman in a wheelchair in order to enforce outdated laws?” Clemens said Monday night.

[OLDproLg]

PIGZ will be PIGZ.

Everybody should have read what i posted days back about her.
THIS SHIT IS TERRORIZING PEOPLE IN NEED PERIOD,FLA SUCKS!

WAIT TILL MORGAN GETS GOING hehe,to bad she didnt have him?
i didnt know SHE WAS AN ACTIVIST.......nice target a suppose....

Seriously MEAN LAWS.

[Agaricus]

Honestly, I don't know how those thugs can live with themselves. But I know damned well that they go to sleep at night with smiles on their faces knowing that they've "done their job." They put on their ski masks, drew their guns, bravely stormed the castle of a wheelchair-bound woman and took away the medicine that made her life more bearable.

Now their handlers congratulate them and will probably charge the lady and her husband with a crime.

There's a special place in hell for them.

the drug warriors have missed the fact that they can't get away with shit like this anymore

i feel sorry for the Jordans ! the list of victims in the war keeps getting longer

when stories like this get out it is just one more nail in the drug warrior's coffins ........ can't wait until the idiots just give up and go the fuck away

[Capt.Ahab]

Perhaps this will stop when enough citizens start resisting and put a lot of cops in wheelchairs .

[Morcheeba*]

prime example of how they suppress TRUTH.

keep REAL patients in fear of activism when its the very examples that need to be in the spotlight.

i fear leo kicking in my door all the time and being in a wheelchair is no deterrant for my sheriff from locking me up..........ive seen many disabled in jail in my county and its never good for their health.

if it happens then ill have my day in front of a jury and a load off my mind b/c im no longer in fear.

peace