Pubdate: Thu, 04 Oct 2007
Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.dailybulletin.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/871
Author: Wendy Leung
Cited: Inland Valley Drug Free Community Coalition http://ivdfc.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana - Medicinal)

POT ADVOCATE DISRUPTS MEETING

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A meeting meant to teach the community the harmful 
effects of drugs got rowdy Tuesday evening when a medical-marijuana 
advocate pushed the guest speaker, authorities said.

Paul Chabot, a speaker for the Inland Valley Drug Free Community 
Coalition event, was pushed outside the meeting at the James L. 
Brulte Senior Center, said his wife, Brenda Chabot, who heads the 
community coalition.

Cpl. William Badger of the Sheriff's Department said one man was 
arrested on suspicion of battery and was later released.

Several medical-marijuana advocates were outside the senior center 
passing out fliers. One of them was Dave Matteson, who didn't know 
the man who got arrested. Matteson said he wasn't welcomed at the 
meeting even though he wasn't disruptive.

"We got thrown out of the meeting," said Matteson, a Claremont 
resident. "To be perfectly honest, it was awfully ... stressful."

Ed Hills of Rancho Cucamonga, who attended the meeting with his 
family, said the medical-marijuana advocates were disruptive and had 
yelled at him when he refused to take any of the medical marijuana literature.
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