CASE TO SERVE AS KEY TEST OF PROP. 215.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Todd McCormick's arrest for growing pot in a Bel-Air mansion dubbed ``Liberty Castle'' is likely to become an important test case of the voter-approved initiative legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes Medicinal Purposes is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Plot Edinburgh, 1827. . It also could help resolve conflicts between California's new law and federal law prohibiting all marijuana use. At a detention hearing in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, McCormick's lawyers said he has had cancer since childhood and relies on pot to numb chronic pain. He was growing the pot for himself and to provide for others who use it as medicine, they said. A longtime activist for the legalization LEGALIZATION. The act of making lawful. 2. By legalization, is also understood the act by which a judge or competent officer authenticates a record, or other matter, in order that the same may be lawfully read in evidence. Vide Authentication. of marijuana, McCormick was a supporter of Proposition 215, a statewide initiative approved by voters in November that legalized medicinal marijuana. McCormick was represented Wednesday by three lawyers, including Alan Isaacman Alan L. Isaacman (born July 12, 1942 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American lawyer primarily famous for serving as attorney for publisher Larry Flynt. His past clients also include Geraldo Rivera, Rock Hudson and CBS, Inc. , famous for representing Hustler hustler Sexology A ♂ paid to service–nudge, nudge, wink, wink–♀ or other ♂ publisher Larry Flynt in his various First Amendment battles to publish pornography. In the recent movie ``The People vs. Larry Flynt,'' Isaacman was portrayed by actor Edward Norton. ``He wants to stand up and fight the issue,'' Isaacman said after a court hearing downtown at which McCormick's bail was set at $100,000. ``This is a test case of whether the will of the people of California will be carried out,'' he said. ``There is a clash right now between the federal government and the state of California. ``He believes he has the right to enter into agreements with recognized providers,'' Isaacman said. ``There are care givers in California who have patients who need it supplied.'' Isaacman said McCormick was experimenting with various strains of marijuana at the Bel-Air home. He said his client had hoped to eventually provide marijuana to care givers of people like himself who need marijuana for medical purposes. In court, U.S. Magistrate James McMahon James McMahon may refer to:
Isaacman protested, saying McCormick needs to use marijuana to ease the pain of a spinal condition caused by his various bouts with cancer. ``He has a right to do it under Proposition 215,'' Isaacman said. McMahon retorted: ``He does not have the right to do it under federal law. I can't sanction a violation of federal law.'' McCormick was held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center "Metropolitan Dentention Center" refers to a series of federal detention facilities (prisons) located throughout the United States. They are run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or after McMahon said the pot-using issue would have to be settled by another judge as early as today. ``He will be in great pain,'' Isaacman said later. ``He's come to depend on marijuana.'' Four others were arrested in the raid. Bond was set at $10,000 each for Aleksandra Kristin Evangelidi, 23, of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Renee Danielle Boje, and $15,000 for Hermes Zygott. David Wayne
David Wayne (January 30 1914 - February 9 1995) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning nearly half a century. Richards, 25, of Palmdale was released. Sheriff Sherman Block ridiculed Isaacman's statements about McCormick using the marijuana for medicinal purposes, saying the intent was to sell to cannabis cannabis: see hemp; marijuana. cannabis Any plant of the genus Cannabis, which contains a single species, C. sativa. It is widely cultivated throughout the northern temperate zone. clubs around the state. McCormick was able to hide his operation because the home is set back and in an exclusive area of Bel-Air, he said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (color) Forensic specialist Alex Strouzer of the county Sheriff's Department photographs marijuana plants in the patio section of the Bel-Air mansion. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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