Silver City woman faces eviction over medical marijuana – Silver City Sun-News
SILVER CITY — A handicapped Silver City woman says she is being discriminated against because she has medical marijuana in her home and was told to move out of her apartment as a result.Bobbie Wooten, who lives in the Silver Cliffs apartments in Silver City (NM), said an apartment management representative performed a surprise inspection on Tuesday and discovered two marijuana plants. According to Wooten, the representative left and came back a short while later and gave her a notice telling her she had three days to move out.
The eviction is within the terms of the lease, said a spokesman for the Arizona realty company that manages the property.
“My lease provides for a drug-free environment,” said David Kotin of Kay-Kay Realty. “Obviously, she is in violation of my lease.”
Wooten was severely injured in a car crash several years ago and is paralyzed from the waist down and must use a wheelchair.
She suffers from severe spasms and joined the state’s Medical Cannabis Program when it went into effect about a year ago. She has a New Mexico license to grow the plants.
Deborah Busemeyer, communications director with the New Mexico Department of Health, confirmed that Wooten is in the program.
“She can possess up to four mature plants,” Busemeyer said. “She can also have up to 12 seedlings and up to six ounces of usable medical marijuana.” That amount allows the patient to have a three month’s supply of usable cannabis.
“So they are going to kick me out in the cold right before the holidays,” Wooten said. “This is a small town with not many places for a person who is wheelchair-bound to live.”
“I am on a fixed income … Social Security is all I get,” she added. “What am I supposed to do?”
David Kotin of Kay-Kay Realty in Silver City, New Mexico – you are on notice. Instant karma’s gonna get ya.
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I have enormous reserves of scorn and sarcasm, and yet I’m finding it difficult to truly express the revulsion and loathing I have for David Kotin of Kay-Kay Realty. I have a tremendous imagination, but even I cannot fathom how someone claiming to be a man tells a paralyzed wheelchair-bound woman she has to hit the streets four weeks before Thanksgiving. I’ve done some shameful things in my life, things I recall vividly every day I look in a mirror, but if I were David Kotin of Kay-Kay realty, I’d have to break every mirror in my home lest I see the wretched Scrooge that pushed a paralyzed woman, a model 6½-year tenant, out into the cold streets for growing two pot plants in accordance with New Mexico law!
I spoke with Bobbie Wooten this afternoon and she agreed to give us an interview for the Stash tomorrow afternoon. She tells me her phone has been ringing off the hook. I told her there were hundreds of thousands of patients just like her in situations just like hers, and millions of others who support ending this injustice of our marijuana laws. Bobbie’s interview will play on tomorrow’s Stash – I invite David Kotin of Kay-Kay Realty to tune in; it’ll be running all weekend long.
