The following entry was written from a Mississippi jail cell by Dr. David Allen, MD. After retiring from a career as a cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Allen moved from Mississippi to California to start a practice writing medical marijuana recommendations for his patients in accordance with California law. However, he soon ended up back in Mississippi facing drug charges because a police task force allegedly found marijuana during a search of his estate there. He has been jailed and awaiting trial since December 2009.
On Thursday, July 15th, 2010, I was moved from George County to Jackson County Adult Detention Center (ADC). I was told to pick up my things in five minutes (after living there for seven months). I had just received a canteen purchase costing about forty dollars, including a new wristwatch purchased that day. Officer Rivera took all my things and went through them and would not allow me to take these legally-purchased items to ADC. There were three other prisoners being transferred that day, and none of the other three were searched this way or had anything inspected.
Actually, the way it is supposed to work is your stuff is just transferred and the receiving facility is supposed to search it for contraband once it gets there. Instead, Officer Rivera stole my candy bars, salt, pepper, sugar, Sweet n’Low, hot sauce, picante sauce, cookies, peanut butter wafers, ramen noodles, popcorn, coffee, cappuccino, lemonade, cocoa, my bowls and coffee mugs, my padlock (he forced me to give him the combination), my radio and headphones, Q-tips, a comb, my pens, and a bunch more stuff. Another Jackson County transfer officer also took my legal file, letters, addresses and telephone numbers, my calendar, legal affidavits, two copies of Treating Yourself magazine. Again, the other prisoners did not have this done to them.
I was transferred to ADC in leg irons and handcuffs. After being made to strip off my jumpsuit in the hall in front of female guards, I was placed in a red jumpsuit by Officer Rivera, who said it was the only one they had left. (That was a lie. The red jumpsuit signifies you are a murderer.) I was placed in Q Zone, which is referred to as Queen Zone. You can guess what sort of prisoners are housed there – all sex offenders.
I was separated from my possessions and given a mat with no blanket and a large plastic boat (to sleep inside, on the floor). The Queen Zone is a windowless room one-half the size of the zones at George County (24 prisoners) with 20 racks and 6 people in boats on the floor. It’s filthy, with no water cooler or ice available – only warm tap water for hydration. (No fluids are served with meals like at George County, where they serve cold weak tea and coffee.) The sinks have push-button hot and cold, which turn on a weak stream of water that fills up a 4-ounce cup in 10 seconds and then turns off. The showers do the same, so you get too-hot or too-cold water for 10 seconds and then you must push them again. There’s no way to regulate the temperature, so the inmates can’t get clean and therefore they avoid the torture of the showers.
They don’t give you bed linens, and you sleep on a plastic mat. I was finally given a blanket at midnight, and at 3am a guard brought in my legal file and possessions in a milk crate, but it was all mixed up. My stack of legal documents is three inches high, and it took me all night to arrange them in proper order for court the next day. So, their psychological game to keep me awake all night prior to court worked. I couldn’t sleep the entire night. Also at ADC they don’t allow razors for shaving, so I had three days’ worth of beard growth and had to go to court unshaven. I didn’t have a comb either, plus I was in a murderer’s red jumpsuit!
During court a great storm came through, and right during testimony the thunder boomed and the lights went out for 10 seconds! After that, the back-up power kicked on with dimmed lights. I told Mike Crosby (my attorney) that God was talking and showing his presence.
I had written to the Mississippi Press and sent them a bunch of facts and references from Jack Herer’s book (The Emperor Wears No Clothes), as well as pro-cannabis videos and other pertinent things about my case that I thought would not be presented during trial. (Reading Cool Madness let me know that the truth is hidden during court procedures.) But the judge ruled all of it was admissible! This way, a lot of my story will be admitted into evidence, but since I won’t be testifying, the prosecution can’t cross-examine me.
The entirety of The Emperor Wears No Clothes is fully admissible as evidence in my trial! Also my brother-in-law Rodney Lee wrote a statement that is in the discovery (admitted already as evidence) that Dr. Allen believes marijuana is intentionally mis-scheduled by the federal government in order that police can seize property! This means that since I am charged with a schedule I crime, we can argue the mis-scheduling of cannabis. No other case I’m aware of has been able to argue this point. The law is the law, and you can’t argue against it, so usually any mention of this will be objected to – but in my case it’s in the discovery so they can’t object!
But I digress – let me finish what happened. After court I was placed back in the Queen Zone in ADC. I was there for five days and I asked repeatedly if I could get a yellow jumpsuit. I was told I was a flight risk and therefore had to stay in the red jumpsuit (in prison with rapists and child molesters). I was singled out!
The food at ADC is subhuman and in super-small quantities. For breakfast on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010, we were given a half-cup of oatmeal, a half-slice of baloney and a 10-15 gram (dry) biscuit with no jelly or butter, and no fluids to drink. I fasted three of the five days I was there anyway. On the third day of my fast, I was moved back to George County, where I showered and slept between clean sheets. (Thank God!)
On Wednesday, July 21st, twenty-one prisoners from George County (all Jackson County inmates) were told to pack up. We were taken up front to the booking desk and 6 of the 21 were singled out – all six of us were told to take off our jumpsuits and we were then all placed in waist-chains, handcuffs and leg irons, wearing just our underwear. (This breaks so many laws it’s not funny.) Fortunately I was wearing long johns, but we had to strip in front of female guards and then were placed in a van and transported in chains and our underwear for 45 miles to ADC. When we arrived at ADC, we were placed in a holding cell and four of the men in underwear were then given orange pants (no tops) and transported to Stone County Regional Correctional Facility, where I have been for 8 days now!
My canteen money from George County still has not made it here. I have to trade my food trays for stamps and envelopes. Today, I traded three trays for four stamps and four envelopes so that I can still write to people. I have made three requests to go to the legal library, but I haven’t received a response. I believe my court date will get put off another 3-6 months before trial. I hope I will be strong enough to tolerate this. The conditions here at Stone County are actually a lot better, so God has my back!
Dr. Allen is FREED written by sioux colombe,
March 08, 2011
Thank you God for Freeing Dr. Allen
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... written by space,
November 15, 2010
im glad i dont live in mississippi!whew!
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ouch! written by space,
November 15, 2010
im glad i dont live in mississippi! whew!
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FREE DR ALLEN FASSSST written by yolanda,
August 31, 2010
FREEEE HIM!!!1
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Free Dr. David B. Allen written by Sioux Colombe,
August 10, 2010
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500
An Open Letter to President Obama
A Travesty of Justice Occurs:
When cannabis is intentionally mis-scheduled by the Federal government, as having no medical use and not safe under a physician’s supervision, despite mountains of scientific evidence proving multiple medical uses and safety, unsurpassed by any man-made medication.
When scientific medical study of cannabis is prevented by the government to perpetuate intentional miss-scheduling of cannabis.
When intentional miss-scheduling of cannabis is used by local government to profit from seized property and incarceration of citizens, and deny them the right of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
When police seize legally purchased property prior to court appearance or a chance to defend your self in court (establishes guilt prior to proving innocence).
When police act as the judicial branch of the law and become Judge and Jury.
When police and local government profit from property seizure, giving motive to hunt the public and find you guilty. By human nature, this profit motive will turn a “good man bad”.
I am a retired cardiovascular surgeon, who has been targeted and victimized. I have lost my Freedom and Constitutional Right to Bail, which limits my ability to defend myself. I have lost my family, my career, my property, my family photos and heirlooms, and everything I worked for my entire life. Police have made public statements, indicating I am guilty, prior to court, and placed false photos in local media, showing marijuana plants, when none were found! This, and the profit motive, will prevent me from receiving a fair trial. I have been subjected to cruel treatment, which amounts to physical and mental torture.
President Jimmy Carter stated, “The punishment should not be more than the harm to society by the drug (medicine)”. If no laws are broken by the personal use of marijuana, then property seizure and taking freedom from citizens, is itself a crime. I am a P.O.W. in the war on drugs; the war against our own citizens. Stop the War!...Reschedule Cannabis as a medicine. If I could give my life so this would not happen to others, I would. President Obama, I say this to you, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”
David B. Allen, M.D. July 21, 2010 S.C.R.C. F. David B. Allen, M.D. (2009120099) M Zone, Rack 10 1420 Industrial Park Dr. Wiggins, MS. 39577 If you agree with this, please print & sign your name, and include your address – and send a copy to President Obama (see address above)…please send original signature to President Obama.
If you would, please send me copies of your signed letter to President Obama to both addresses listed below – one to me directly, and one to my office.
Together we can change our nation’s view on natural medicine.
“Don’t tell me Cannabis isn’t medicine” quote of David B. Allen, M.D.
By Legal Democratic Vote Cannabis Is Medicine!
When Cannabis is Legal The War On Drugs Is Won!
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