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MS Patient Gets 5 Years For Medical Marijuana

We are outraged, let it fuel us.

by Joseph Klare [contact]

Sat, Mar 20, 2010 3:25 pm

more: medical marijuana, busted, new jersey

" A New Jersey man with multiple sclerosis was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for growing marijuana -- which he said was for medicinal purposes -- in his back yard."

This is not going to be a long blog post; it is not a complex issue.

There is a certain level of human decency that is ingrained in all of us (except serial killers and nutjobs).

A man grows marijuana in his back yard because he's poor, and it relieved a debilitating disease he suffered with every day. He broke the law, he got caught, and the minimum sentence he could receive is 5 years in the state of New Jersey.

Now we are outraged, and will rail against whoever we can that the law must be changed. But the damage is done. Until we have eradicated the menace of marijuana prohibition, already suffering people will be forced to suffer more, and the authorities will shrug and move on to the next victim.

We will stand no more.

In an interesting coincidence, Craig Coffey of High Times pointed out this news story about GW Pharmicuticals creating a MS drug derived from cannabis.

See my at The Pothead Pundit

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comblous, oHIo

Jul 1 2010, 11:53 am

THC4MS is all i can say been doing it since 95 and will till death keep it at home and you will be left alone trying to sell will get you in jsil share your buds with buds cause after all we are just people helping people please take advantage of this beautiful summer sun and leave them chemicals alone 4204LIFE PEACE

Terrell Robinson

Mar 30 2010, 10:06 am

If you can't use marijuana for "medical" purposes, either, you might as well stop even pretending like it is "legal". This case could go both ways, but the law on this can only go one; LEGALIZE BUD!

Andy, NY

Mar 29 2010, 9:48 am

Sending sick people to prison for trying to grow medicine that works better than the shit they cook up in laboritories? FIRST, the folks who decided this guilt and punishment are heartless fuckin' morons (including the court itself). Honorable, my ass! SECOND, while they're pushing this poor man through the front door of the prison for medical marijuana, they're releasing some gang member out the back. Who is the more dangerous of the two? A guy with MS smoking a joint, or a gang member handing a crack pipe to our kids (with free samples, of course)? I hate our legal system!!

wow

Mar 25 2010, 6:54 pm

In the next few years the full truth will surface democracy is a SMOKE SCREEN from day one.

gstlab3

Mar 22 2010, 3:50 pm

WHERE ARE THE PATRIOTS?

WHERE ARE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS?!?

ARE THERE ANY STATESMEN LEFT TO SPEAK TO THE COMMON MAN?

AMERICA IS SADLY BROKEN INTO RACE,RELIGION,ECONOMIC STATUS,
AND WORST OF ALL IS THE FACT AMERICANS ARE IGNORANT OF THEIR RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM GOVERNMENT INTRUSION INTO THEIR HOMES AND THEIR BODIES!!!!

ARE THERE ANY FREEDOMS REALLY LEFT TO ENJOY?

OUR COLLECTIVE LIVES ARE FILLED WITH FEAR FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL CLASS.,MASS MEDIA CONTROLLS AND DIVIDES US FURTHER STILL AND THERE TOO ARE RALLYING CRIES FROM THE PULPITS IN YOUR SMALL TOWNS ARROUSING MANS SUSPICIONS OF ALL PROMISES FROM THE BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT ELITISTS!!!!

WE CANNOT TRUST ANYONE NOR ANYTHING IT SEEMS TO ME HERE IN AMERICA TODAY.

I KNOW WHY TOO.

YOU ALL WILL NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT!!!!!!!!!

YOU LOST OUR TRUST IN GOD AND THE GOLDEN RULES SET BEFORE US.,
TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE IGNORED THE TRUTHS AND THE LOGIC AND OUR COMMON SENSES.

AND THIS IS WHAT WE GET.

"STUPID IS. IS STUPID DOES.," MAMA ALWAYS SAID.,"

CAN YOU ARGUE WITH THAT?

THERE YOU GO.

SOMEONE "OUGHT" TO APPEAL THIS CASE ON THIS MANS BEHALF.

GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!

Jordin T.

Mar 22 2010, 11:07 am

That's so fucking gay man The dank'ness this man has grown has helped his illness and now he must pay for it? like the man said before me karma is going to kick the pigs right in the fucking snout!!!

Seriously that's some fucked up shit man.

*White Widow*

justin

Mar 21 2010, 7:40 pm

those fuckin Guineas wow a hurt man is left to suffer more bs in jail with out medication..and they dont give a fuck, to hell with em and our government those corupt $$ lovers. karmas a bitch and they will get theirs for sure.

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