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Which district attorneys in Alabama are pushing to block medical marijuana? AL.com 4 hrs ago Ramsey Archibald, al.com
District attorneys representing just over half of Alabamians jumped into the legislative debate this week, calling marijuana a gateway drug and attempting to block Alabama from joining most of the nation in allowing medical marijuana.
Twenty-three of the state’s 42 top prosecutors, including two from larger urban counties around Huntsville and Mobile, signed a letter to Alabama lawmakers in opposition.
They urged state lawmakers to kill a bill that would make Alabama the 37th state to allow the use of medical cannabis products, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The legislation is sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson, a Republican and a physician from Florence.
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Shanaye Poole (left) next to her father, Toforest Johnson, during a family visit to see him in prison in the early 2000s.
Toforest Johnson was 25 years old when he was sentenced to death in 1998 for the killing of a sheriff s deputy outside Birmingham, Ala. His oldest daughter, Shanaye Poole, now 29, remembers being in the courtroom. I just wanted to talk to him. He looked so handsome. He had a suit on. And of course, I didn t really know what was going on. I may have been 4 or 5 years old at the time, she says. I saw him walk away, and that was the last day of his freedom.
New Eyes On Alabama Death Row Case After Integrity Review Raises Questions
By Debbie Elliott
April 5, 2021
Toforest Johnson was 25 years old when he was sentenced to death in 1998 for the killing of a sheriff’s deputy outside Birmingham, Ala. His oldest daughter, Shanaye Poole, now 29, remembers being in the courtroom.
“I just wanted to talk to him. He looked so handsome. He had a suit on. And of course, I didn’t really know what was going on. I may have been 4 or 5 years old at the time,” she says. “I saw him walk away, and that was the last day of his freedom.”