Old Boomer Evicted from Subsidized Housing for Toking up that Devil Weed

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A 78-year-old man who relies on medical marijuana for back pain finds himself homeless after being evicted from federally subsidized housing in a case complicated by conflicting state and federal marijuana rules.

John Flickner was staying at a Niagara Falls shelter Thursday, after an hourslong eviction ordeal Tuesday that ended with him steering his electric wheelchair in freezing temperatures to a center about a half mile away.

“Cold, wet, windy,” Flickner recalled of the trip, which was photographed by The Buffalo News .

“All I wanted to do was get out of the wind,” Flickner told The Associated Press on Thursday inside Community Missions, the facility he transferred to the next day.

Niagara Towers, where Flickner lived for two years, is subsidized by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Although New York state has legalized medical marijuana, HUD says it gives landlords discretion on whether to evict residents for using it. Marijuana use remains illegal under federal law.

Flickner’s problems with his landlord started in June, when inspectors found marijuana in his apartment and called police. Responding officers declined to charge Flickner — who said he got the marijuana from a doctor in Canada — but advised him that he needed a prescription to possess it.

Flickner said he had no trouble quickly getting a doctor’s prescription and had it long before this week’s eviction.

“I didn’t know about getting the card. I just knew it was legal,” he said. “I wasn’t hiding anything.”

Still, the Tennessee company that owns the complex, LHP Capital, moved forward with ending his lease.

“The basis of the eviction was they have a zero-tolerance (policy) and he had marijuana in his apartment and at that time he did not have medical marijuana,” said Niagara Falls attorney Jason Cafarella, who represented LHP at a November hearing in Niagara Falls City Court. “It was a lease violation and the tenant had known what the rules of the property were, had known the rules of the lease and violated those rules.”

A judge issued a Nov. 29 eviction order.

“What really swayed the judge, the be-all, end-all factor, was a regulation which basically gives management the ability to impose this zero-tolerance rule regardless of medical marijuana or otherwise,” said attorney Kevin Quinn of the Center for Elder Law and Justice, who represented Flickner. “If it’s being used, they have that ability to terminate a lease.”

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Oy vey. Doesn't he know that he should just be using (((opioids))) for his back pain?

mess with the bull, get the horns, or at least thats what i say.

A 78 year old is born in the 1930s and therefore part of the silent generation you mentally retarded teenage faggot

Learn what words mean

Yey verily. He must only use state-approved opioids which are actually addictive and harmful or else he will be executed for being a danger to muh childrins. Shalom.

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words change meaning over time
try keeping up

Nope. This gen of "zoomers" are not original.


Er er er nailed it!

No law is too small to kill someone over.

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They shouldn't change in ways that are pointless and retarded.

In that case Boomer means 30-70yos then

Unironically, yes.

Kill yourself.

Good!

>Oy vey. Doesn't he know that he should just be using (((opioids))) for his back pain?

Sheldon Adelson and DWS endorses this.

yeah boomers are from after the end of WWII to early 60s. There are a lot of older people around from the silent generation that were raised like their parents. Boomers were the first to likely be raised with television in the homes too.

But the truth always stays the same.

LHP Capital needs to be audited. I bet you a dollar they are overbilling

All the while, niggers do worse shit in public housing all of the time.

No one particularly cares about the very specific meaning anymore. And further, the Silent generation were even worse, being fully complicit in the bullshit, by literally not speaking up. Fucking trash.

He could have avoided this by changing his ingestment method from smoking to eating.

That movie is so old, that the teen rebel is now the age of the principal and the principal has lost all his hair and hobbles on a cane.

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