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2012-01-31T21:54:00.000-08:00

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2011-12-13T22:25:00.000-08:00

Charges dismissed against medical-marijuana doctor

A judge has dismissed the criminal case against a doctor charged with felony drug distribution after undercover police officers alleged he wrote them shoddy medical-marijuana recommendations.

Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour tossed the case against Dr. Manuel Aquino-Villaman following a hearing on Friday. Samour said Aquino-Villaman's actions were lawful under the Colorado constitution and also protected by the First Amendment, according to a court summary of the hearing. He also said the charges should be dropped because prosecutors failed to preserve evidence. Aquino-Villaman had been charged with felony conspiracy to distribute marijuana, in addition to forgery and attempt to influence a public servant.

This is the second time that a marijuana-recommending doctor charged in Arapahoe County after an undercover police sting has won a rare dismissal of his case before trial. In May, a different judge dismissed the case against Dr. Toribio Robert Mestas, also saying that the doctor's actions were protected by the Colorado and U.S. constitutions.

Attorney Lauren Davis, who represented Aquino-Villaman, said both cases show a hostility toward medical marijuana by prosecutors in the 18th Judicial District, which includes Arapahoe County.

"Their bias against medical marijuana in Arapahoe and Douglas counties is an affront to the constitutional rights of patients and recommending physicians," Davis said.

The district attorney's office declined to comment on the most recent dismissal, saying they have not yet decided whether to appeal.

In both Aquino-Villaman's and Mestas's cases, undercover police officers posed as patients who complained of injuries or other aches — sometimes backed up by medical records — in attempting to obtain a medical-marijuana recommendation. After brief exams, the doctors provided the recommendations.

Prosecutors argued the exams were substandard and that the officers never complained of "severe pain" — the condition for which they were recommended marijuana. But the judges ruled the doctors' diagnoses were reasonable based on the cops' statements.

"The presumption is that doctors are entitled to rely on what patients tell them in the course of an examination," Davis said. "It's not the doctor's job to play policeman."

The exams in both Aquino-Villaman's and Mestas's case also came before the legislature passed new rules on what constitutes a thorough enough exam for a doctor's medical-marijuana recommendation, which is needed to be a legal medical-marijuana patient. And, because the recommendations are ultimately just advice from the doctors — it is left up to patients to fill out state medical-marijuana registry paperwork or obtain marijuana — the judges in both cases said the doctors were protected by free-speech rights.

Lastly, Judge Samour ruled Aquino-Villaman's case should be dismissed because police and prosecutors failed to keep the patient forms the undercover officers filled out before seeing the doctor.

Aquino-Villaman has been by far the most embattled of the more than 1,000 different doctors who have written medical-marijuana recommendations in Colorado. In March, he voluntarily surrendered his license in the midst of a state Medical Board investigation into a marijuana recommendation he wrote to a pregnant woman. Aquino-Villaman denied wrongdoing and said the woman never disclosed her pregnancy. But his attorney said Aquino-Villaman, now 71, could not afford to continue fighting the case.

Davis said Aquino-Villaman also suffered from his criminal prosecution.

"He spent a good portion of his life savings defending against charges that never should have been brought against him," she said.

2011-12-09T12:28:00.001-08:00

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2011-12-08T10:04:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-30T09:21:00.001-08:00

Report shows fewer traffic fatalities after statespass medical-pot laws

By John Ingold

The Denver Post

Thepassage of state medical-marijuana laws is associated with a subsequent drop inthe rate of traffic fatalities, according to a newly released study by twouniversity professors.

Thestudy — by University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees and MontanaState University professor D. Mark Anderson — found that the traffic-death ratedrops by nearly 9 percent in states after they legalize marijuana for medicaluse. The researchers arrived at that figure, Rees said, after controlling forother variables such as changes in traffic laws, seat-belt usage and milesdriven. The study stops short of saying the medical-marijuana laws cause thedrop in traffic deaths.

"Wewere pretty surprised that they went down," Rees said Tuesday.

Thestudy was posted this month on the website of the Bonn, Germany- basedInstitute for the Study of Labor and has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Reessaid the main reason for the drop appears to be that medical-marijuana lawsmean young people spend less time drinking and more time smoking cannabis.Legalization of medical marijuana, the researchers report, is associated with a12-percent drop in the alcohol-related fatal-crash rate and a 19-percent decreasein the fatality rate of people in their 20s, according to the study.

Thestudy also found that medical- marijuana legalization is associated with a dropin beer sales.

"Theresult that comes through again and again and again is (that) young adults. . . drink less when marijuana is legalized and traffic fatalitiesgo down," Rees said.

Thestudy is sure to add fuel to a debate over the impacts of Colorado'smedical-marijuana boom on traffic safety, which has embroiled cannabisadvocates and law enforcement officials for more than a year.

Thestate legislature this year rejected a bill that would have set a threshold ofTHC — the psychoactive chemical in marijuana — that would qualify someone astoo stoned to drive. After more research and a fractious debate, the ColoradoCommission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice will not recommend that thelegislature try again with such a bill this year.

"Theworking group was not able to come to consensus," said Arapahoe CountySheriff Grayson Robinson, who led the subcommittee that studied the issue.

Much ofthat debate has focused on marijuana's impact on an individual's drivingabilities. Rees and Anderson say their study does not mean it is safer to drivestoned than drunk. Instead, they write, increased medical-marijuana usage athome might change patterns of substance use and driving.

MasonTvert, the head of the pro- marijuana-legalization group SAFER, said the studysuggests legalizing marijuana would be beneficial in unexpected ways.

"Peoplewho are drinking drive faster, take more risks, underestimate how impaired theyare," he said.

John Ingold: 303-954-1068 orjingold@denverpost.com

MMJ Christmas Party on December 19th At 8pm at Casselmans

2010-12-09T13:40:00.000-08:00

MMJ Patient Services

Presents a MMJ Industry Xmas Party for

MMJ Patients and Industry Workers

Admission is $4.20 (show license or business card)

Featuring The UmConscious and DJ Spellbinder

It's Gonna Be a Great Evening of Sound and Fun

Venue: The green friendly Casselmans

Doors open at 8:00pm