Police-State Watch
Not that I agree with the Cato Institute on a ton of things, but this is fascinating, and chilling: an interactive map of botched paramilitary police raids in the U.S. Including this woman:
Jacki Rickert.
Police conduct a midnight raid on the home of Jacki Rickert, a wheelchair-bound woman who weighs 90 pounds. Rickert suffers from the bone and muscle disorders Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and reflexive sympathetic dystrophy.
Police spend 10 hours searching Rickert’s home and confiscating the bags of marijuana she used to treat symptoms of her illnesses. The local district attorney decides not to press charges.
In a profile for Madison, Wisconsin’s Capital Times, Rickert declines to say if she still treats her symptoms with marijuana, “lest her door get kicked in again.”
Source:
Doug Moe, “She Makes the Case for Medical Pot,” Madison Capital Times, March 20, 2001, p. A2.
