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Old 10-13-2005, 11:14 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Steve Tuck Released From Custody

Steve Tuck Released From Custody To Get Medical Care.
Must Report To Humboldt to Face Charges for Growing Medical Cannabis
After He Gets Out of the Hospital. His Health Has Been Badly Damaged.

Posted by*Richard Cowan on*2005-10-12
Finally, after yet another 24 hours without any treatment for pain or even any antibiotics, Steve has been released from the Seattle jail and is being taken to Haborview Hospital by attorney Douglas Hiatt. It is outrageous that it would take this long to get him proper medical care.
Read Full Story... http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=857

This morning, Doug Hiatt wrote, “I am ashamed. I have met a very small man with a very large heart. Thirteen back surgeries.* He is a sixteen year chronic pain morphine user… As of this writing he has received no pain medication..”

Patient Arrested at Canadian Hospital Released
By Gene Johnson October 13, 2005, Associated Press
Seattle, WA -- An American medical-marijuana advocate who says he was arrested at a Canadian hospital while waiting to be admitted for prostate surgery, turned over to U.S. authorities and held for several days without having his catheter removed was released from a Seattle jail to seek medical care Thursday.

"The whole time I was in jail, they put a blood-pressure cuff on me. That was all," Steven William Tuck, crying and shaking, said after his release.

His lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and the president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sunil Aggarwal, brought him to Harborview Medical Center, where he was being evaluated in the emergency room Thursday night.

"The doctors are appalled at the condition he's in," Hiatt said

Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21189.shtml

The influence of marijuana as a cause of crime would be hard to overestimate.* With the victim experiencing hallucination and violent rages, he is likely to run-amuck and commit crimes he would not have nerve enough to attempt if he were in his right mind.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY* - June 29, 1938

“In many instances the preliminary stimulation soon gives way to apprehension, and to a terror and feeling of persecution which not infrequently lead to violence and crime, sexual aberrations or even suicide.“
The American Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa Society) Winter 1938/39

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