INJUSTICE AGAINST PROP 215!

Brian_k_phillips@yahoo.com case# LA059891 Van Nuys, CA. To all the legal patients of prop 215, I need your help. I Brian Phillips, caregiver, have been charged with illegal growing of my patients plants. The patients and I the caregiver lived in the same house. They were raided and robbed of their plants and lights. I admit to and have been given permission to take care of their plants and provide other services such as picking up their medication for them. Some of the patients have had surgical operations on their backs. Some have mental problems and some have other reasons for the medications. Either way they are all legal by law and so am I to provide their care for them. Most of them shared a house and had their own rooms while the plants were growing in the garage. Even with them admitting to the investigators that the plants were in fact theirs, I was still charged with growing marijuana illegaly. The patients were not charged even after admitting the plants were theirs and the state does not believe that I was in the legal right to help them with their needs and care of them as it is written in the law. Section 11362.5 of the State Health and Safety Code clearly gives me the right as a primary caregiver and I am not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction. I have taken some patients to their out patient surgery and even waited for them and carried them back home as they were unable to do so themselves. This house just so happened to be both of ours and I even put them in bed. Some of the patients who did not live at the house could spend the weekends so they could medicate in private. We are all friends of three years time and none of them had the same doctors. There is no evidence of wrong doing on anyone’s part in this matter and they are just like you, legal patients. I was even given the legal right by the patients and they signed me in as "legal caregiver" to the stores that provide such medications. The stores also operate legally and pay their taxes on the medication sold. The state of California has collected millions of dollars in taxes from the legal stores. The state offered a plea, but I did not accept it. Why would I plea guilty to something I did not do, i.e. provide care for patients illegaly. So I ask all the patients to show up in court to protest this injustice! Remember, these are also your rights that are up at stake here. So I will be in a jury trial on August 17 in Van Nuys, CA. and I ask all patients that can protest this PLEASE show your support for your right to have a caregiver! The laws says you can have more than one primary caregiver per patient. It also says the caregiver can help them with the care of the plants and their health care in general. The plants were not even flowering or blooming as of the robbery meaning none of the plants were usable product of medication, just stems and leaves. I was arrested on 08/22/08 at 8:35 am my booking number was 1595670, I was charged with an F- 11358HS cultivation of marijuana. Please email the state in protest to this injustice, as well I would personally like to hear from you and read your thoughts. I must win this case to protect the prop 215 laws as well as the patients rights to their medications. I have even included a marijuana expert to show that there was no usable product. Please email everyone in this protest including the prosecutor in this case. # LA059891 Van Nuys, CA

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