Why some Pa. marijuana patients face jail for not surrendering their medical marijuana cards
Jeran Dunmire was jailed for two days in July for following doctor’s orders.
Not long before, his doctor had written him a prescription for medical marijuana. The physician thought the drug could help wean Dunmire from his long-running opioid addiction, a use approved by the state Department of Health.
But then Dunmire, 38, ran head-on into the edict of Jefferson County Judge John H. Foradora, the president judge there and, in fact, the only judge in the rural county 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.