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News outlets today are reporting that Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system when she died while being held in a Prairie View, Texas jail three days after a traffic stop.
Reuters reports that Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis texted the attorney for Bland's family saying, "Looking at the autopsy results and toxicology, it appears she swallowed a large quantity of marijuana or smoked it in the jail."
Bland's actual levels were not disclosed. Her family's attorney, Cannon Lambert, has called the autopsy "defective."
The leak of the tests performed during her autopsy is following a now familiar pattern. Police and prosecutors use marijuana as an attempt at postmortem character assassination before and during trials.
Almost exactly two years ago in Florida, Judge Debra Nelson allowed a jury to hear that teenager Trayvon Martin had trace levels of THC metabolites
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