2010 Candidates Positions on Marijuana Policies

[EdLee]

Yeah I just read that about Rep. Paul Costa today. Can anyone find out if he has come out in favor or against HB 1393? He voted for HB 176, the anti-synthetic cannabinoid bill.
Project vote smart says this about him:
Supports implementing penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.  Supports the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).

PA Lawmaker Charged With Smoking Pot In Parking Lot
By Steve Elliott
A western Pennsylvania lawmaker stands accused of smoking marijuana while tailgating last month in the parking lot outside a Pittsburgh Steelers football game.

Pittsburgh police claim State Rep. Paul Costa, 51, was caught sharing a joint with another man in the parking lot of Heinz Field on October 3. Undercover Officer Alex Lee Myers claims he saw Costa (D-Wilkins) and another man passing the joint between them, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (Since the Ravens beat the Steelers 17-14 that day, who could be mad at these guys for "allegedly" dulling the pain with a little herbal medicine?)

"He adamantly denies that he smoked any marijuana," said Costa's attorney, Phil DiLucente. "No narcotics of any kind were found on him. In fact, he detests marijuana," DiLucente added.

Myers and police Sgt. Steve Matakovich were walking through the parking lot when they said they saw Costa and Mitchell Brourman, 50, of Edgewood, "smoking and passing between them a hand-rolled white cigarette," while standing next to a 2008 white GMC Yukon.

Myers claimed he could smell "the overpowering scent of burning marijuana coming from the smoke surrounding both Brourman and Costa."

The officers claimed they watched Costa and Brourman pass the joint back and forth, and then they approached to stop the party. When the showed their badges and identified themselves as police, Brourman dropped the joint, Myers claimed.

"You got us," both men said, according to the affidavit. Officer Myers said he picked up the discarded joint.

DiLucente said those words were never spoken. His theory is that Costa, like many other fans, was wearing a Steelers jersey and police just got the wrong guy, reports WTAE.

"I think, very easily, he could be mistaken, and I think in this case, that the officers were mistaken," DiLucente said.

Costa and Brourman told the officers they didn't have any other illegal substances, but the cops claimed an ensuing search of Brourman's Yukon turned up more marijuana in an orange pill container. Police said they took the evidence to the county crime lab.

DiLucente, who is also representing Brourman, said he doubts Myers and Matakovich could have seen what they claimed, because they were standing about 100 feet away when they began to approach his clients. He said police did not ask Costa to submit to a blood test for marijuana.

"We can't stress enough how anxious we are to get to court and clear his name," DiLucente said of Costa.

Records show that Costa did not sign on as a co-sponsor of House Bill 1393, Rep. Mark Cohen's failed bill to legalize medical marijuana during the 2009-10 legislative session.

Both men are charged with one count of "prohibited acts" and are due in court November 24.

For a video news report on the incident from WTAE, The Pittsburgh Channel, click here.

[jameswhitman]

Trey Casimir is the one who came out with the favour of legalizing marijuana, and he keep on talking about the marijuana for more than 50 minutes in the radio this morning. Casimir face Republican Fred keller, and viker, they are opposed to the any kind of the marijauana policies. The green leaf salvia divinorum is one of the common leaf that legalized green leaf. When it is matched with the marijuana the salvia divinorum will have the more favour when it legalized. The salvia divinorum gree leaf usage should be legally discussed among the Rebublican Fred keller and viker, as because they are opposed to any kind of green leaf.

[JTSpangler]

Chuck's sentencing is set for Monday, November 22 at 3PM before Judge Kennedy in York, who issued a bench warrant for Chuck's arrest on October 29 after he apparently didn't show up for his arraignment on additional charges for possession of "medicine".  Tips on his whereabouts will be appreciated by York County detectives in the DA's Office if he is still AWOL.  Chuck's dream of Marijuana Martyrdom is close to being realized, then he can run The Medical Movement from behind bars in The Big House.  Might've been probation had he not run away.

[nightwitch]

was wondering ware he went no word from him since sept

[jackcat]

Tips on his whereabouts will be appreciated by York County detectives in the DA's Office if he is still AWOL.  Chuck's dream of Marijuana Martyrdom is close to being realized, then he can run The Medical Movement from behind bars in The Big House.  Might've been probation had he not run away.

I hope you aren't advocating that some one turn him in if they know where he is.  Hopefully he's gone some where sane until the commonwealth regains its sanity surrounding cannabis use by patients and responsible adults.  Grow baby, grow!! 

[JTSpangler]

I wasn't suggesting snitching on the poor SOB, but from my experience with him, I'm guessing it will probably take a little time on the inside to make him wake up and realize that he needs more than weed to cure what ails him.  His presentence order was for IP or intermediate punishment, which includes probation.  Having boogied on the second charges, that's probably off the table, even before drug court Judge Kennedy, who understands that meds and shrinks do much more than jail to treat mental illness.  Chuck is a good advocate but also a tad wack and a con man.  I feel sorry for his family, who have bought into his Messianic vision for keeping the Kalifornia Kush coming.

[EdLee]

Trey Casimir is the one who came out with the favour of legalizing marijuana, and he keep on talking about the marijuana for more than 50 minutes in the radio this morning. Casimir face Republican Fred keller, and viker, they are opposed to the any kind of the marijauana policies. The green leaf salvia divinorum is one of the common leaf that legalized green leaf. When it is matched with the marijuana the salvia divinorum will have the more favour when it legalized. The salvia divinorum gree leaf usage should be legally discussed among the Rebublican Fred keller and viker, as because they are opposed to any kind of green leaf.

Erik Viker, the Libertarian Party candidate, in my opinion had better positions on drug policy than Trey Casimir. You've been misinformed, Viker is not a prohibitionist, he is in favor of legalization. He specifically came out in favor of recreational and medical marijuana legalization and for the legalization of industrial hemp. He also opposed HB 176. I suggest you check out this interview with Erik Viker: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=37354 and listen to his appearance on the local radio show On the Mark: http://www.wkok.com/roundtable/viker.mp3

[JTSpangler]

I see from the docket sheets in York PA Common Pleas that Chuck was sentenced today on the cultivation felony and arraigned on the possession charges after the bench warrant was lifted.  Looks like he got 4 years House Arrest and if drug free for 1 year, then last 3 years can be [not visible].  A Mental Health Evaluation was ordered and costs are to be paid.

[Dunleavy]

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[garwi]

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[pcpdod]

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