Sandra Bland: Large Marijuana Ingestion? She Didn’t In-Process With It — So Who Gave It To Her? [In-Depth]
Since Sandra Bland’s death, there has been a lot of disagreement and speculation with the ruling. Marijuana? She didn’t in-process with any. So, who gave it to her?
As you know, things can turn quickly with information releases. And unfortunately for Sandra Bland, most media centers are focusing on one part of her in-processing documents — the suicide notations. However, is anyone looking at why Bland said she attempted suicide? Or is everyone just taking that one section and running with it — discounting the dashcam video, police brutality, inmate negligence or everything else marked “no” in the in-processing documents.
Most recently in Sandra Bland’s case, the district attorney reported that she either smoked or ingested a large quantity of marijuana while in her jail cell. She was only there for the weekend, yes? Anyone who has the ability to read and comprehend can read Sandra Bland’s “Booking Sheet” for himself or herself. She only came in with the items she had on her person when arrested.
In Bin #6 — the only bin in her arrest report — her itemized list goes as follows:
- Sandals, Multi-color Dress, Black Bra, Blue Underwear
- Circle Band, Rope Belt, Hair Pin
- Piercing – Below Belt
- Texas Driver’s License, Texas ID, Illinois Driver’s License
And it was all listed under “Property.” Bland didn’t even have any cash money on her at the time.
Now, if there was some type of contraband, wouldn’t it have been confiscated and reported, also as addition reason for arrest? Yet, as reports Huffington Post, Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis said as follows.
“Looking at the autopsy results and toxicology, it appears she swallowed a large quantity of marijuana or smoked it in the jail… This will of course be very relevant in any future criminal or civil litigation.”
Let’s stop the character assassination attempt. A more-legitimate angle could be, “From whom did Sandra Bland get the large quantity of marijuana while, basically, in solitary confinement?”
As a sidebar, yes, she was in a cell by herself. According to KTRK 13-Houston, Sandra Bland’s co-inmate, Alexandria Pyle, remembers talking with her through the rectangular opening in the doors, from across the hall. The news medium reports that Pyle was arrested for unpaid parking tickets and was sharing a cell with two other women, all while Bland was in Cell 95, alone. If “suicidal,” why place her in a cell alone?
But to digress, by now, you’ve probably heard Bland’s voicemail. During those 22 seconds, she didn’t sound like she had consumed a large amount of marijuana, did she? She sounded like she was fully-cognitive and ready to go. Marijuana has certain affects and effects on the human body. According to a study by the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, “Cannabis Use and Cognitive Dysfunction,” you can bet that Sandra would’ve sounded far different if she were under the influence of such a heavy amount.
“…Certain specific neuro-psychological parameters have been found to be affected [in those who use cannabis]. Most commonly and consistently reported are response time, prolongation of word viewing time, basic oculomotor deficit, residual verbal memory and executive functioning.”
Yet, okay. The district attorney states his findings. Let’s go with that. If Bland smoked it, would not everyone had smelled it, regardless of location? And when did it happen? According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, if smoked, marijuana effects are usually felt within minutes. And let’s take the ingestion angle as well. The same source says that ingestion effects are felt within 30 to 60 minutes.
Bland was set to be released within a few short hours after talking to the officer through the intercom system. Even then, the officer said that she sounded fine. Using the NLM‘s time references as focal points, that would mean that — in order to smoke or ingest the product in jail — she would have to be given the product while in jail. Correct? According to sources, no one visited her.
Be it that her co-inmates were across the hallway in another cell and not in the same room as Bland, who gave her the large dosage of marijuana to consume?
Moreover, knowing that there were suicidal tendencies, why was there an available trash bag in the room? According to USA Today, the district attorney quotes as follows.
“It appears she had used a trash bag to hang herself from a partition in the ceiling, which was used to give inmates privacy.”
However, Sandra Bland was alone in a jail cell designed to hold five inmates. So, she didn’t need a privacy divider, right?
According to CNN, Waller County Prosecutor Warren Diepraam mentioned as follows.
“There were no bite marks or other injuries on her face, on her lips, on her tongue, which would be consistent with a violent struggle. If there had been a violent struggle, examiners would most likely not expect to see a uniform and consistent mark around Bland’s neck — which is what they, in fact, observed. They also did not observe damage to her trachea and esophagus, which they might expect to see if there had been a violent struggle.”
Interesting. But Sandra consumed — in one way or another — large quantities of marijuana while jailed? Well, according to research findings from the highly-credible Indian Journal of Psychiatry, there wouldn’t be much of a struggle at all if under the influence of those amounts, right?
- Response time
- Basic oculomotor deficit
- Executive functioning
These attributes would be severely affected at those high-intake levels, proposed by the district attorney. Yet, all the aforementioned would also be necessities to give a violent struggle. She couldn’t give a violent struggle…if she couldn’t physiologically give a violent struggle.
As Waller County Judge Trey Duhon said on his Facebook profile, according to KHOU-Houston, “…evidence may not fit with everyone’s narrative or agenda, [but] the facts will be the facts, and the facts will demonstrate the truth.”
Same here. This is based on the presented evidence and supporting facts from credible sources and academic journals.
One thing seems evident, he doesn’t want the heat in his county, understandably — though it’s unavoidable at this point.
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There too many “coincidences” and “inconsistencies” that have happened — from the start… inconsistency to follow procedure in the arrest, video playback inconsistencies… editing the arrest video to show Trooper Encinia already on-scene, so not to tell that the second officer arrived later — rather than being there and having “saw the whole thing,” as stated in the video. As for Waller County… booking inconsistencies, monitoring inconsistencies… safety inconsistencies… possibly, inmate negligence. Who contributed to Bland having marijuana while in jail?
These are the focuses that should be addressed — not just one simple statement, of one page, saying that she attempted suicide before. That only provides a tool for public character assassination, regardless of what could’ve really happened during her time at Waller County Jail. And that’s what’s happening now. The focus has switched from total negligence by law enforcement to character degradation and “suicide” emphasis. It’s called “misdirection.”
What are your thoughts on Sandra Bland’s ruling and autopsy results? Feel free share them in the comments.
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