A debate over a Clearlake woman’s herbal tax shelter is set to light up the Lake County courthouse May 30.
Sylvia Price suffers from chronic pain syndrome as a result of a 1992 massage therapy injury that occurred while she was working at a Calistoga spa. She has been disabled since and also suffers from lupus and a wide range of other debilitating ailments. Because of her condition, Price requires the support of an in home caregiver.
County social services wants Price to pay $430 of her $1,300-a-month caregiver cost, but by deducting medical marijuana expenses from her workers’ compensation and disability income she has qualified to have her caregiver costs waived.
Price’s caregiver and long time companion is Terry Robl. He is also the one who Price buys her weed from. The couple believes their actions are legal under California’s medicinal pot law that was approved by voters in 1996.
County officials will be relying on federal laws to strengthen their position on a matter that just doesn’t smell right to them.
Whether Price uses marijuana or not is her business, but by deducting the cost to buy pot to lower her income so she can avoid paying a portion of her caregiver costs has made this matter the county’s business.
State social service officials are eager to see which way the smoke blows on this case because it is the first of its kind and there are a lot of terminally ill people with a variety claims using medical marijuana in the state.
Adjuster / Examiner Claims Examiner Santa Ana Unified School District Santa Ana, CA
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