disturbing medical marijuana news from ohio

a local man broke into the home of my ohio neighbor, dicky inscho, attempting to steal his money and marijuana. the man later returned, at which point dicky has gotten his shotgun and fired, killing the thief.

he called the police immediately. when the police arrived, they promptly hauled dicky, who is in a wheelchair and suffers from cerebral palsy, to jail for possession of marijuana. although marijuana is used to treat cerebral palsy, it's of course not legal.

the legality of his medicine seems to have already played a part in the media's treatment of the shooting. recent news reports have not painted dicky in a positive light, even insinuating that he was a drug dealer. had his medicine been legal, perhaps the reports would have skewed differently. i know this kind of thing probably happens all the time, it's just disturbing to be so close to it.

all your friends are thinking of you, dicky!

on a related note, good luck monday!

(vacuous) update: he's only been charged with one misdemeanor charge of drug possession, so far... officials were supposed to decide on additional charges yesterday, and we haven't heard anything else, which i guess is good news?

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