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Crime and Medical Marijuana Prohibitionist Scare Tactics - Stephen Downing of LEAP to Long Beach City Council

Stephen Downing
Web: www.leap.cc
January 19, 2012

James Johnson
Councilmember, 7th District
333 W. Ocean Blvd, 14th Floor
Long Beach, CA 90802

Dear Councilmember Johnson:

I read with interest the answer to the question you posed about the general crime effect of
medical marijuana collectives upon the City of Long Beach at the last council meeting. The
nature of the statistics reported in the Grunion Gazette provided no opportunity to analyze
the generalization that the one murder, 54 felonies and 27 misdemeanors were the direct
result of legal marijuana collectives operating in the City, as alleged. Nor did the article
indicate whether those crimes were committed last week or over the 15 years that medical
marijuana has been permitted by law in California.

As you know, "statistics" especially "crime statistics"...
High Drama in the Courtroom as Judge Sheldon Recuses himself

“If it sounds defiant for me to say ‘I hope more people stand for what is right and do the right thing and fight for righteousness, then I guess I am defiant. But I don’t think I am - I am very sorry that this happened. It put my family through a horrible time and it’s put all my friends for a horrible time. But this needs to be sorted out. The law needs to be clarified and we need to get past this. One day people won’t be thrown in jail for distributing a plant to sick people.” ~ Joe Grumbine

If anybody needed proof that standing up for what is right and fighting for righteousness does any good, all they had to do was be in court in Long Beach on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

Between the relentless support of the Green Team, and the brilliant defense by the “Dream Team" (as the bailiffs called them,) especially that last volley of motions by Allison Margolin -- "L.A.'s dopest attorney" -- and her most excellent legal team, the conviction machine...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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The Human Solution, a non-profit organization founded to support medical marijuana patients and to develop court and legal support for medical marijuana defendants, is introducing a unique way for Collective and Cooperative operators to raise money for our industry.

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On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. Judge Charles D. Sheldon will hand down sentences for Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine, who were found guilty on December 21 of illegal sales of marijuana at their medical marijuana collectives in Long Beach and Garden Grove.

The jury did not dispute the right of qualified patients to have access to medical marijuana, nor did they dispute the right of qualified patients to collectively cultivate and share it, which they agreed the defendants were doing. But they also agreed with the prosecution that “there was too much money left over” after expenses for there not to be a profit. Profiting from...

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