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US OH: OPED: Judge: Case Shows Marijuana Not Harmless

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Pubdate: Sun, 04 Oct 2015
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
Copyright: 2015 The Cincinnati Enquirer
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/86
Author: Sylvia Sieve Hendon
Note: Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon is the presiding judge of Ohio's
First District Court of Appeals.

JUDGE: CASE SHOWS MARIJUANA NOT HARMLESS

"I feel like no one can get me - I am a zombie.  I have special powers .  nobody can kill me.  ...  They can shoot at me, but I still keep goin'.  I'm powerful and can see the future."

Script from a bad sci-fi movie? I only wish.  This is a quote from a youth charged with felonious assault with a firearm - a crime that has become routine on my docket as I preside by Supreme Court assignment in the Hamilton County Juvenile Court.

By his own admission this boy first used marijuana at age 12 and has used regularly and heavily since that time - and even admits he was able to access it while in court-ordered placements.  He claims to have a "secret method" to beat urine screens and considers himself absolutely "addicted to weed."

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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

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