DA Dismisses Charges Against Medical Marijuana Patient, Caregiver

[Ganjarden]

Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett has requested that all charges be dropped against a Nederland woman who faced drug charges stemming from her use and distribution of medical marijuana.

Sherri Versfelt's home was raided by law enforcement in July 2008. She spent 27 days in jail because she did not have the money to post bond, her attorney Robert Corry Jr., said.

Corry also represented Jason Lauve, a wheelchair-bound medical marijuana user was acquitted earlier this year.

Versfelt's case was scheduled to go to trial next week. Corry called on Garnett not to pursue the case in a guest opinion published in Thursday's Daily Camera.

Garnett has said prosecuting medical marijuana cases is his office's lowest priority, and he thinks marijuana eventually will be legal.

Amendment 20, approved by Colorado voters in 2000, allows patients and caregivers to possess marijuana for medical purposes.

Garnett filed a motion to dismiss all charges against Verfelt Thursday morning. He said he was motivated by recent rulings in other court cases, not the publicity around the case.

Corry called the decision "a victory for the taxpayers of Boulder County, the voters of Colorado and medical marijuana."


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Source: Boulder Daily Camera
Author: Erica Meltzer
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