# Sentence for Weed Equals Death in DC 2004

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 14, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentence-for-weed-equals-death-in-dc-2004/477169 "2008-12-14T22:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentence-for-weed-equals-death-in-dc-2004/477169/21 "2008-12-16T01:14:46Z")

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\*Retchin was reminded three times by the prosecutor that Magbie was a quadriplegic and that the prosecution didn’t want to try him or send him to jail.  
· Malek Malekghasemi, associate medical director at the city’s Correctional Treatment Facility when Magbie entered the D.C. jail, called Retchin’s office and asked that she order that Magbie be sent to a hospital because the jail’s medical facilities could not meet his needs.

“Minutes later [Retchin’s clerk] called me and said [the] judge will not issue such an order,” Malekghasemi said.\*

This is why I hold the judge responsible.

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**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentence-for-weed-equals-death-in-dc-2004/477169/22 "2008-12-16T01:37:20Z")

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> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> [nitpick squared]You can however purchase dronabinol/marinol either with a prescription or ( rarely, I hear ) on the street, which is essentially synthetic THC.[/nitpick squared]

Unfortunately, it’s nothing like actual THC when you get right down to it. My mother has chronic neurological pain due to spinal stenosis (sp?) and her doc prescribed it. She didn’t feel a damn thing when she was popping those pills and was, unfortunately, back on morphine pretty quickly.

I wish that she lived in California, for what it’s worth. It’s a shame having her either in pain all the time, or conked out from opiates.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentence-for-weed-equals-death-in-dc-2004/477169/23 "2008-12-16T02:28:41Z")

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> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> Unfortunately, it’s nothing like actual THC when you get right down to it. My mother has chronic neurological pain due to spinal stenosis (sp?) and her doc prescribed it. She didn’t feel a damn thing when she was popping those pills and was, unfortunately, back on morphine pretty quickly.

It’s pretty much exactly like actual THC. The difference is that natural THC (ie., in marijuana) comes with lots of _other_ cannabinoids, some of which have much greater analgesic or anti-inflammatory properties than THC.

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