Ken Gorman in Playboy

[Reagan]

I just got the March Playboy in the mail. The feature story is entitled "The Medical Marijuana Murder" and discusses the unsolved killing of Ken Gorman.

[Linkey]

is there any way to post the article?

[Patrick Rue]

interesting

i wonder if they know their magazine got him arrested

[testclear.com]

Here is the link from playboy. I dont think it is the whole article but it does talk about Ken.

Playboy Com - Medical Marijuana - History of Medical Marijuana Violence

[№1]

Originally Posted by testclear.com

Here is the link from playboy. I dont think it is the whole article but it does talk about Ken.

Playboy Com - Medical Marijuana - History of Medical Marijuana Violence

You can download the whole article from a link on the bottom.

[Prophet Saddam]

Good find!

Let's all go out and buy a copy or two...spread the word and works of Ken 'Governor' Gorman.

[№1]

Meh, they're not really talking about activism, more so the violence that surrounds dealing with a substance that has a horribly inflated street price due to the fact that the government has deemed it illegal. What sucks is how they spin it all to show the link between drugs and violence, when it isn't the pot, its that you have to deal with the criminal element on some level to get it. If pot was as easy to score as a head of lettuce, you'd never hear of one pot related murder, ever.

[Prophet Saddam]

Originally Posted by №1

Meh, they're not really talking about activism, more so the violence that surrounds dealing with a substance that has a horribly inflated street price due to the fact that the government has deemed it illegal. What sucks is how they spin it all to show the link between drugs and violence, when it isn't the pot, its that you have to deal with the criminal element on some level to get it. If pot was as easy to score as a head of lettuce, you'd never hear of one pot related murder, ever.

"In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing."

I have a little more faith in Playboy when it comes to speaking/writing the truth.

[№1]

Forgive me, by 'they' I meant the public, the ONDCP, FreeVibe and all the rest of the DEAth army who keep telling us that pot leads to crime and death and despair when in fact its the war on drugs that causes all of this bullshit, certainly not the weed itself.

Hope I cleared that up fer ya.

[OldMan&TheWeed]

The Dangerous Business of Medical Marijuana

In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing. Gorman is hardly the only dealer who has met with violence -- here are some other cases.

August 19, 2005: Half a dozen armed men descend on A Natural Source, a marijuana dispensary near Oakland, just as employees are opening for business. The intruders order the employees to lie on the floor and proceed to steal money and marijuana. As the robbers make their escape, one employee grabs a gun. The subsequent shoot-out leaves one of the robbers, 17-year-old Demarco Lowery, dead.

September 27, 2005: In Olivehurst, a small country town about an hour's drive from Sacramento, a pair of armed white supremacists -- Christopher Hance, 21, and Eugene Scott Davies, 19 -- are shot to death while protecting their medical marijuana garden after thieves come on their property at three in the morning. The shooter, Michael Huggins, claims self-defense but is later convicted of manslaughter.


September 8, 2006: Alan Darcey Smith, 45, a medical marijuana patient who lives in Goshen, Oregon, confronts two men breaking into his house to steal his pot. As the robbers flee in a pick-up truck, Smith fires a shotgun at the vehicle, killing the getaway driver, 48-year-old Debra Lynn Contreras. Smith is charged with murder.


September 20, 2006: In Bakersfield, California, thieves gun down 19-year-old Leonard Banks in his home while attempting to take his father's medical marijuana in the back yard. It is the second shooting in the house within a matter of hours. The father is shot on both occasions, but survives.

October 22, 2006: Three thieves posing as buyers attempt to purchase 20 pounds of medical marijuana from two patients at the Best Value Inn in Oroville, California. After one of the buyers pulls out a gun, a battle ensues in which 17 shots are fired. Two of the three buyers are killed in the shoot-out, along with one of the sellers.


January 21, 2007: Alerted by his barking dog, Los Angeles cancer patient Jerry Cress discovers a 15-year-old boy allegedly trying to steal marijuana plants from Cress's garden shed just before daybreak. Cress shoots the boy, Jacob Walker, in the back with a small-caliber handgun as the boy and his older brother flee the scene. Walker dies in the street and police arrest 57-year-old Cress at his home on suspicion of murder.


June 28, 2007: Two men follow 37-year-old Gary Jones after he drives away from the Compassionate Patient Cooperative on the outskirts of San Francisco. Jones stops at a gas station, and while he is inside paying for gas, he sees the men steal half an ounce of marijuana from his car. Jones confronts them, and is shot dead.

September 25, 2007: Adrienne Simone, a Sacramento woman protecting her medical marijuana garden, shoots a 17-year-old male in the face in the early hours of the morning. The teenager survives. Simone is arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

[OldMan&TheWeed]

I haven't read the entire article yet, but from this preview it seems that Playboy's journalistic integrity has been exchanged for government inspired groupthink.

It's sad. I remember coming across my dad's cache of late 60s era Playboys when I was a teen and (between beat-off sessions) carefully reading the cutting edge articles. Many of the ideas challenged the conclusions I had uncritically accepted. I credit them for opening up my mind.

How sad they have come to this.

[Reagan]

Originally Posted by Linkey

is there any way to post the article?

Yes, I will scan it soon.

How were you all able to view the article from that page? Did you pay the $4.99 to download it?

[generic_hippie]

raising awareness and peckers...

[Roach]

I'm pretty sure folks are already aware of drug related violence.


Mentioning Ken only associated all drug violence with marijuana activists. A tremendous disservice to me and others who 'try' to do "our business" without violence.


In other words Playboy got it wrong.

[generic_hippie]

People who harbor bigotry toward the cannabis culture are unlikely to be persuaded against that bigotry by an article in a wank mag.



I believe there was some mention of posting the article?