Dr Jerrol Thompson an infectious disease specialist Social Share
CEO of the Medicinal Cannabis Authority
Cannabis and cannabis-related substances have for over 60 years been placed in the most stringent schedules of three International drug Treaties. Under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, Cannabis was placed in both Schedule I and a special Schedule IV (drugs considered to have absolutely no medicinal value). In a second 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (a synthetic cannabis compound, dronabinol was placed.
A third Convention in 1990 restricting trade and criminalizing personal possession was signed by SVG in 1994. The UN Agency, Commission on Narcotic Drug (CND) governs these conventions and is mandated to meet once a year to decide on the scope of regulatory rules & control by placing substances in Schedule-1 (most stringent), Schedule-II or Schedule-III, the least.
Monday evening shortly after 7:30 P.M. Officer Finn with the Plymouth Police Department conducted a traffic stop in front of the Plymouth Public Library at the corner of West Washington Street and North Center Street.
During the traffic stop and after conducting a short investigation 32 year old Melissa A. Hite of Plymouth was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, possession of a syringe and was also found to have an active warrant out of Marshall County.
Hite was taken into custody and transported to the Marshall County Jail where she was held on a bond of $150 for Failure to Appear on a Civil Case, $1,505 bond for the active warrant of Possession of Narcotic Drug and Possession of a Syringe and $1,505 the new charges of Possession of Methamphetamine Possession of a Narcotic Drug and Possession of a Syringe.