Woman sentenced for letting kid smoke pot SAN FRANCISCO — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to resentence a Gardinerwoman who let her toddler smoke marijuana from a bong two years ago. Jessica Durham was sentenced to five years in prison last August by U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom. The appeals court agreed with Durham's argument that the maximum sentence for the charge should be two years. The three-judge panel sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing. Durham had appealed her conviction also, saying the testimony against her was not properly admitted and that the prosecution's evidence was insufficient. The court upheld the conviction. Durham was found guilty following a one-day trial in 2004. During the 2004 trial, witness Brandi Nichols said Durham encouraged photographs of her 18-month-old daughter with the water pipe and said Durham wanted to send the pictures to a marijuana magazine. Nichols testified that Durham said she let her daughter use the drug because the child wasn't eating and sleeping enough. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/NEWS01/609230309/1002
Reminds me of a doctor (a rheumatologist) I worked for. He told about his daughter as a teething infant - sobbing in pain for hours. So he put some straight whiskey on her gums, and she quieted and went into a sound sleep. Then he panicked, afraid that she might stop breathing. So he sat by her bassinette and watched her for the entire night, until she awoke and was alert. This probably happened, maybe 50 years ago. So I guess whiskey was the remedy at the time.
Was no mention that she was a hippy. besides,why you so racist? I`m not condoning what she did,,, I`m sticking up for the hippies,like myself
50 years ago another common remedy for teething pain was Paregoric. Back then it was available without a prescription. I thought it had been taken off the market entirely, but I just googled it and learned it is still available with a prescription (not for babies, I'm sure!). It contains morphine, and it worked reeallly goood! :shock:
My kids' grandmother used to tell me to do that when they were teething, I thought she was nuts! She also used to give them a spoonful of sugar to cure their hiccups! :shock: She tried to make my kids drunk and on a sugar high and rot their teeth! :lol:
My dad used to give me whiskey mixed with honey & lemon when I had either a cough or sore throat (can't remember), but only a tablespoon at a time.
I remember when I was 7 and I swallowed a quarter. My uncle gave me Jack Daniels to drink, thinking I would throw up. Boy was he wrong. :lol:
