Medical Marijuana Patients: “Our Suffering Is Newsworthy”
State-legal marijuana patients and caregivers locked in federal prisons; We are the standard-bearers of the new revolution
They took my friend away. Somebody said, “Go get those guys,” and they were gotten.
The Lansing 7 are businessmen who have been federally convicted for their arrangement of growing marijuana in state-legal gardens under a plan approved by lawyers. When the state law enforcement agencies wanted to interfere, they could not- each garden was at a separate address and contained a legal number of plants. Where there’s a will, there’s a way and they found it- the DEA.
The DEA doesn’t care about all the work you put into making each garden legally compliant. They don’t care that the caregivers are also patients. Normally the only thing the DEA cares about is if the garden contains more than 99 plants, the supposed threshold for federal involvement.
These gardens didn’t contain more than 99 plants at a single address. That Somebody said, “Get ‘em anyway,” and they found a way- add up all the gardens together, call it a conspiracy and viola! Federal charges for everyone involved. Yes, everyone, including the elderly man that did janitorial work at the gardens. He was convicted of a crime, too.
The federal court system has a 98% conviction rate, I’m told, so it should be no surprise that all seven that were charged eventually plead guilty. The longest sentence of the group- 4 years. That would be my friend, Ryan Basore, co-founder of The Compassion Chronicles, who will have to read this article on a prison computer.
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