{"id":5740,"date":"2011-04-18T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:07:17","slug":"drug-charges-against-montel-williams-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5740","title":{"rendered":"Drug Charges Against Montel Williams Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; A judge dismissed a drug paraphernalia possession charge against former talk show host <strong>Montel Williams<\/strong>, who was briefly detained at a Milwaukee airport in January after a search of his luggage turned up the type of pipe commonly used for smoking marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong>, who says he legally uses marijuana to treat chronic pain caused by multiple sclerosis, was scheduled to stand trial in May on the charge. But a Milwaukee County judge dismissed the case Tuesday at the district attorney&#8217;s request after the pipe tested negative for the drug, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We concluded that this case was not provable,&#8221; Chief Deputy District Attorney<strong> Kent Lovern<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> lives in New York but is participating in experimental treatment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said he forgot the pipe was in his bag, and apologized for inconveniencing the airport security agents, deputies and court system. <strong>Williams<\/strong> said he is thankful that he can put the episode behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t about somebody trying to do something illicit. I&#8217;m really just trying to take my medication. Hopefully this issue and this incident will spark some conversations that will help more rational minds find a way to solve the problem and take the patients off the battlefield.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; A judge dismissed a drug paraphernalia possession charge against former talk show host Montel Williams, who was briefly detained at a Milwaukee airport in January after a search of his luggage turned up the type of pipe commonly used for smoking marijuana. Williams, who says he legally uses marijuana to treat chronic pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}