DEAD IN JAIL

A year ago, 27-year old quadriplegic, Jonathan Magbie, died in a D.C. jail for lack of a respirator. Why was he in jail? He smoked marijuana to alleviate his suffering. If D.C. residents (citizens is too elevated a word) had the democratic rights of, say, Basra, medical marijuana would be legal and the poor guy would never have been jailed. But jailing a quadriplegic in the first place? In a prison that didn’t have the respirator he needed? The man’s family is now suing the city. D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith E. Retchin, who sentenced Magbie, is an incompetent and a monster.