2009-12-10 As
former supporters of ASA San Diego, we still receive emails from them. Even after we asked to be no longer
associated with ASA San Diego, they persist. So, here's our take on
the Jovan Jackson trial's "Lessons Learned".
PS: we still dig ASA,
just not the way San Diego's chapter rolls these days.
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the email:
"Expert defense attorney K. Lance Rogers will provide us with lessons learned from the historic Jackson case
and at 8pm
he will offer a question and answer period for your lingering questions about this local landmark
trial." This was our invite
to an ASA sponsored lessons learned session with the energetic attorney.
Mr.
Rogers is
sincere, but he is new to medical marijuana case law. He has heart, but is that going to be enough, going forward, folks?
our stance:
Basically it is an advertisement to join ASA where people can act like little bunnies in farmer johns field until they
get whacked and used
as cannon fodder to establish neighborhood collectives (think when video stores first came), once
that is done, the big corporations will
come in and take over and knock them all out of business anyway.
The only real solution is full legalization,
for adults, which includes people growing it in their backyard, or home, without police involvement
or government taxation and intervention.
Having said that, let us apologize in
advance to some who will, at first, mis-interpret, or mis-read, these concise sentiments. Also, let us
acknowledge up front, our belief in Jovan,
his collective, and the right of all legal patients to use medical cannabis safely.
Lastly, this is in no way reflective
of our opinion, nor our gratitude (great) to Lance's law firm, and himself. We are grateful for the lucky
day Lance stepped up, and the even more
fortuitous day of the trial. Luck, that's what happened that day in court. Praise God, its better
to be lucky than smart. Not to say the
defense wasn't smart, it was ok. Just ok, no great display of legal wizARDry, just a fairly balanced
jury, and a judge who had nothing to
lose.
Lucky? Barely half the jury wanted to acquit, and the prosecutor is not the brightest bulb in the lamp. The prosecutor
was not challenged
nearly enough. He got away with spouting nonsense in front of the jury. K. Lance was not prepared, had the prosecutor been a better
lawyer.
Courthouse
politics? The basic reason why Jovan got lucky is because Judge Bashant was trying her last criminal case, and was no longer
subject
to the control of Bonnie Dumanis. For more on this HOT subject, pay attention to what she
is doing to Judge Einhorn.... hint:
he is neutered, having been boycotted by Ms. Dumanis, for not being her fool, for daring to be independent. He is quarantined, aka
'working' in what is essentially a secretarial role in department 11.
In the final analysis, the leadership of our local
chapter of ASA is making it appear that everything is fine and dandy and nobody has anything
to be concerned about. We call bullshit! Respectfully.
Though most ASA SD members are good people doing a fine job, on their own time, on their own dime,
all is NOT well with medical cannabis here...
