10 Years Later, Medical Marijuana Grower Still Being Harassed

$50 trillion annually ain't nuthin to sneaze at. We could rebuild America, including Mexico and Canada too, in less that 10 years. By then, Obama will be a Supreme Justice, maybe the Jesuit runnin the show? We can grow!

leaglize it and tax the piss out of it!! Stop spending money on putting "potheads" in prison and spend it on all the shit that Bush phucked up, as in this whole country. The goverment needs to take care of us not the penal system. I Sure wished I could smoke without having to worry about someone looking threw my front window trying to bust me!! Its not wrong to bong!! 420 forever baby

I don't know - to sum up all evil?
Intolerance and greed.

210 - Einstein? Missed that. touche' putty-tat!

210 - All true, but only when the just do nothing, can evil prevail.

210 - ur definatley a better composer than I.

Half of the states, and now Fed 3x's, WE ARE FACING THE DEATH PENALTY, they just choose to call it "life".

For any serious pot-head in here, just put a bullet in my head if I go in. TAKE THAT MILLION AND FEED THE STARVING KIDS who are now developing malnutrition related diseases that were erradicated centuries ago!(by eating an orange everyday)! GREAT PROGRESS AMERICA!

Keep invading 3rd world countries who can't grow enough rice for their kids to exist on, just to grow more sugar for america, 50% OF WHOM, ARE ALREADY OBESE AND DIABETIC!

I'm a little more trench-warfare. Don't even think, that after reading HT and smokin since the first day of 7th grade, I'm gonna let a retard in here to spin more webs.

So, if I offend anyones personal or moral somaethetics, I apologize now, just trying to keep it real!

But with the advent of the PC, and for Bill Gates crushing the IBM/CLONE WARS, every citizen should be voting for themselves. They are not going to relinquish control, we have to legislate it back away from them.

Else, they will soon be 50% of our entire workforce.
AND THEY CALL POT HEADS UNPRODUCTIVE?
That's 1 Federal Employee per Citizen, as depicted in THE MATRIX. BELIEVE IT!

SEE THE SPIN? GET OFF OF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND AND WRITE THEM WEEKLY!

@ treehugger
I was gonna quote Einstein.
" Great sprits have always encountered violent oppisition from mediocre minds". But forgot.

As those who hold an oppsing view of cannabis than our government. It seems that we may well be relegated to "terrorist" class citizens now. Not merely 2nd class citizens as before.
If the latest proposals from the administration of change prevail.

Dosent seem to matter who is elected. The fasicist idealogy machine just keeps marching on. It has a life of its own,I swear.

A "civil death" if you will.

The President, the Executive Branch of Gov't is responsible for prosecuting, n Executing.

He sent he only message he can. It's up to each state to legislate themselves. We have 1/3, another 1/3 and it's over. Once we have Medical, Recreational will quickly follow.

Could be less than 1 year, not nearly 10.

210 - you did better than I, I couldn't follow one "sentence" from another. King? Paper money?

@ sexygurl

Perhaps you should read American History. Then you would know more than what your Highschool Government Teacher has told you.

EEle fres der gwattaisey kin shresst pon giwm if fi.

GRRRRRRREHFAHMAUNGGEH.

Um last time i checked history, it was the rich using slaves and killing because they were all bastards who wanted it all for themselves. Don't preach slave! Go out there and work to support the system who takes and gives nothing! Look at all the homeless people and ask them how great the KING is. Utter BS. Its paper money of no value and you all fell for it hook line and sinker. Stinker! Now you are owned! Freedom my ass! tRUE ITS BETTER THAN cHINA,BUT COME ON MAN!

Send this to your lawbreaker, I mean lawmaker

http://cannabisculture.com/v2/content/study-debunks-claim-pot-smoking-causes-mental-illness

I hope each of you will take a minute to read the following message about how we became a free country. Have a safe and happy holiday and please take a moment to remember our troops (past, present and future-including cannabis freedom fighters!). Enjoy your Independence Day.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men

who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants,
nine were farmers and large plantation owners;
men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if
they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and
trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British
that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family
was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him,
and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that
the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson
home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed,
and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests
and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his
children vanished.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

Remember: freedom is never free!

It's time we get the word out that patriotism
is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer,
picnics, and baseball games.

Is it that much of a sacrifice to write your congress-critter and President of Change and DEMAND TOTAL CANNABIS LEGALIZATION IN AMERICA?

TO: MR CAIN @ - newagecitizen.com - aka New Citizen Cain?

I saw your post in Hightimes, and visited your site, and was initially intruiged? Pot and politics?

But after browsing for a few minutes, found myself questioning how you intend to achieve the goals or fund these movements.
I don't think your $100 membership fee will cover it. Hightimes has been pimpin that info for decades, for free.

Just a few observations that may help further you cause;

don't model our immigration policy based on other countries, America is supposed to set global policy, not follow it.

playing the "immigrant card" is a pathetic attempt to grab the attention of the frustrated and desperate. It's no excuse for not being able to come up with real solutions to real problems (and 100 years of bad policy) with real funding and legislation, and a million new jobs, as I have.

Unfortunately, the aristocracy of this country (property owners) was built upon slavery. But became a Super Power because of immigration, and will continue to do so long after we're dead. Not to mention the most obvious - HUMAN CIVILIZATION IS THE RESULT OF IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION - except for the endemic of Africa/India.

don't make personal attacks on the US President - attack his policy, not his character (which has yet to be determined)

I'm sure you're not a constitutional lawyer, nor will you ever be commander-in-chief., despite your 2012 hopes. As I am sure he's not, "Obama is the most prejudiced President in US history ". You base your surmises on what study?

And we don't need a massive Energy R&D project, the technology is already there, we just refuse to manufacture, so Germany and Japan are the only ones cashing in on our research.

Here are some of my ideas, feel free to steal them and cash in on them;
Medical Insurance covers it, without a Dr deeming it appropriate, or building a database of "registered users" losers that will pay when the DEA hacks the data, or will be denied an organ transplant cuz, "your medical ID thumbstick indicates you're a pot-head".

50% tax on recreational sales
50% tax on commercial bud sales
0% tax on personal consumption-we don't pay tax on anything else we grow for personal consumption (but soon you will if you don't vote no on Bill HR 875, google it, google CODEX)

You have to grow 2 acres of hemp or bamboo per acre of bud
0% tax on donations made to compassion clubs (I'd freely give half of my crop to the terminally ill, who pay nothing cuz the shop only needs a little money to hand out donated weed)

Build a canal from Baja to Brownsville 600' wide by 100' deep;
30-60 million new tax payers, stop the buy, end the violence, create 1/2 a million new jobs, take half of the semi's and trains off the roads, and procure the best place on the planet to grow pot/hemp! Cut the travel time in half again, first is was Cape Horn (crazy mother-fuckers!), then Panama, now Baja!
That means you can buy 3 pairs of sneakers for $100, instead of 1 sneaker. What good is 1 sneaker?
....but is that really what the gov't wants?
Keep puffin...(that doesn't mean = cage penguins)

In the news tonight, Hightimes will be hosting a 12-round, no-holds-barred, special on HBO. Las Vegas anticipates the highest turn-out ever, and you can order on-demand for $19.95.

On the canvas;
in black n white stripes-UN Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa
aka The Asshole
weighing in @ 77 lbs.

red white n blue-Supreme Court Chief Justice Antonin Scalia
aka The Jesuit
weighing in @ 225

Anyone taking odds?

Keep Puffin, don't cage penguins!

lab3 - absolutely, it's coming. We already have 1/3 of the states. Another 1/3 and it's over.

Economy? The Baja to Brownsville Canal/420 Act of 2009!

i questions maybe someone can answer for me 1. who is or are the legal growers of mj. for the calif. despenseries. if their private growers who are they licensed with. 2.if someone should order mj. over the internet to say arizona does the postal service check for cannibis with drug dogs?
i mean do the systemacticly search for mj. by mail order?
thank you

TO: treehugger., DO YOU SEE ANYONE UNITING US? THE ONLY ONE I SEE DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB OF IT IS PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS LAKIES ON THE HILL.,THE WAY THEY ARE GOING WE ALL ARE GOING TO BE SLAPPED UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH QUITE THE RUDE AWAKENING!! ALL THIS DEBT IS KILLING ANY CHANCE TO PROFIT OR TO CREATE ANY MORE JOBS THAT MATTER MOST.,JOBS THAT PRODUCE A PRODUCT NOT A SERVICE. WILL HE BY HIS OWN MISTAKES AND FALSE IDEALS BRING US TO OUR COLLECTIVE KNEES BEFORE WE SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT?

haha2000 - morons? Worse, irrevocably HUMAN, ergo - inherently dangerous. Hence Paine's works providing the blueprint to design our gov't, visa vie, the blueprint to dismantle it. He knew, we are human, and would wind up, inexorbly, where we are today.

But when the just, the oppressed, the LOVERS of life, defenders of the planet and ALL IT'S INHABITANTS, are sentenced to life, robbed of their possessions, BY THE SAME GOVERNMENT SWORN TO PROTECT US, AND TO VOTE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR DESIRES, TO BE PRESENT IN CONGRESS TO REPRESENT OUR VOTES...it is our duty to join forces, not sit on our ass and do nothing - else, guess who wins?

The rich elitest Aristocracy that founded this nation on the backs of slaves.

DOESN'T ANYONE THINK IT'S TIME TO START ACTING PROPER, YET? 300 YEARS? Jesus, Paine wrote the manuals for you.

Just a thought...

Necrosis - Nice!

It does take-a-while to get used to. Typically, the best response (from me)is;

Hey Canada, get your own power grid. Buy your own web servers. Haven't you been riding our backs long enough? Now you're gonna sell us Marinol? Fuck You.

Take out Harper, and replace him with Emery

The Jews have been "friendly" for millenia, and they're still at it. World leaders in 420 medical research.

We stole their religion, we'll probably steal their 420 technology too (I hope!).

Keep Puffin (that does not mean "cage penguins")

I've been browsing these boards and noticed these weird rants about jews and microchips and all kinds of crazy shit about the queen of england. I just want to ask some of the regs, if they have ever responded to these posts and if they know what the hell this guy is talking about

Right on tree hugger. In the Jewish Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible) It tells that the early Isrealites burned Hemp as an offering and incense to God. "The Torah" I read even went so far as showing a drawing of the Cannabis Plant. In my opinion that shows documentation that our green friend has been around since before Man and was created by what so many of the vast majority believe to be their higher power. Yet they limit the credibility of their own deity by refusing to allow us to take part in the creation of their Creator.We have, in our own stupidity, turned away from an herb that God found pleasing to His own desires and placed here for us to find pleasure and comfort thru its medicinal uses. Funny as The Bible condemns a drunkerd yet we can legally commit that sin at any given time in any corner Pub throughout the world. In Gods wisdom we were provided with the plant that has no recorded death attributed to its use. With the legal alcohol which man created, millions have died to alcohol related diseases. Lets not even consider all the innocent people alcohol has killed with one drunk driver taking out entire families in fatal crashes. Our Government hypocrits are truly smart and clever, yet they are not wise.They all take an Oath of So Help Me God yet thumb their nopses to what God has provided us with. MORONS

210 - Amen. I didn't know Sammy could write, and I don't really drink, but he makes a damn good beer too!

"on your knees, bitch", and he wrote that 250 years ago?!!!

te Jews said that if he gets paid from the break and enter the saudi arabian ruler will forfit all oil reserves to the Israeli government. But i am thinking hear he got robbed has insurance and paided his premiums, so how will he never get compinsated for a written contract. The court will not acknowledge what happened but only WHY he did not get paid.

the Jews said that the country China switched the murder weapons with the same serial numbers from the Bay area in 2006. It was a 44 magnum with a 5 inch barrel and a 10 mm glock 20. The Jews match registration numbers from any firearm to switch firearms with identcal serial numbers to set up innocent gun owners for capital murder, remember the gum and media is the Jews worst enemy. Now listen getting away with murder is the easiest racket now with a gun this is how it go's. First you must have a gun then the first step is to clean it, now to clean it you need varsol and a tool that fits on a drill, now llok for a bit that will scrap off all the old scuff mark from the barrel spray some varsol in the barrel and start drilling with a bristil bit till all old scrp marks are out then go and kill a jew, then drop the firearm and walk away or if you want take the gun home and clean it again the same way so the police have no traces to the gun and it will comw out negative for that homocide. Another way is to wait at around 2-4 in the morning and wait for the first human to kill and leave the same way as before, drop it or take it, remember every gun has technology in it so when you HIT never talk BEFORE and always go alone and never ever talk about it to anyone, if you never talked their no evidence and even if they try to trick you deny, deny, deny. This message is posted for the queen and king of england for the saftey of the next king. This is how you murder a Jew and their assosiate and never ever see prison or a court room. To hit ALL of the gang KLAS.

Right On, treehugger

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the annimated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels, nor your arms. Crouch down and and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen" -- Samuel Adams

"On your feet or on your knees!"-Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny and Mutation

Write your congress-critter today.

Tell the Pres.

President Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

Darn rain!

lab3 - I don't believe this is what we signed-up for.

The idea of governing, is really no more than and Insurance Policy. Give up part of your land or money, in order to protect the rest of it. Sorry, but what I see - is NOT ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

I try my best to advocate his ideals, and like him, and branded a sociopath, or socialist. His breakout bestseller "Common Sense" united the 13 colonies against King George. "These are the times that try men's souls." This simple quotation from Founding Father Thomas Paine's The Crisis not only describes the beginnings of the American Revolution, but also the life of Paine himself.

Throughout most of his life, his writings inspired passion, but also brought him great criticism. He communicated the ideas of the Revolution to common farmers as easily as to intellectuals and conressmen, creating the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing that stirred the hearts of the fledgling United States.

Today, it would be like someone texting 550,000 people, and getting them all to join the same team, huh! Later, when he wrote The Crisis, would be = 20,000,000 reading your text.

He had a grand vision for society: he was staunchly anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly. WORLD PEACE ORG, NOT WORLD TRADE ORG.

He was given a home, in the most beatiful state in the union, NY. But his radical views on religion would destroy his success, we labeled him a SOCIALIST, and sent him packin. I believe he went on to help settle Canada, then Europe, where they twisted his ideals into COMMUNISM, LENNONISM.

But Canada and the U.S., and even Europe, are ALL better off because of this 1 individual, who failed at all previous business ventures. He was a humanitarian and a communicator, not a capitalist. Nor am I. I detest money, and barely make enough to survive. Hopefully a few thousand starving children may benefit from my lack-of-greed.

By the end of his life, only a handful of people attended his funeral. Imagine, he single handedly united this nation, Jefferson later helped by drafting the Declaration of Independence, but only because Paine had already united US against THEM.

So, if anyone is still wondering, where-the-fuck-is-he-coming-from? I'm just trying to keep it real, the way it was designed for us.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!?? EVERY ONE OF THESE ARTICLES I HAVE READ IN HIGH TIMES THIS WEEK REPRESENTS IN SOME WAY A TYRANICAL OVERBEARING GOVERNMENT THAT HAS NOTHING GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE JUST FEAR AND CONTROL AND POVERTY FOR THE UNDESIREABLE CLASSES AND RACES.

sweet-n-sexy - Mother Nature put the plant here to keep us happy, and tolerable of eachother(the maternal side), and to provide shelter and clothing(the paternal side).
Only Father Time knows it's fate.

But, as beneficiaries of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, you think we'd recognize this oppression, and respond accordingly. What a whipped nation, may as well give it back to Britian or Persia.

Wana is obviously working for the Fed's. But in all truth the drug laws are too strict in the USA and it is not right to allow one social group the right to get "high" ergo drinking. But not another group to smoke the herb. God put the plant here for some reason. It is also wrong to have one group of people tell another group how to live. That is the real issue.

wannagethigh? - Oh, hell yes. Sorry, just reaction I guess.

Anyway, how did you EVER have faith in this gov't? I guess being raised Catholic gave me access to other global terrorism schemes at an early age. And I started smoking at 11, thanks to the Chicago 7, John Lennon, Hightimes, Cheech n Chong, George Carlin...JFK, RFK, MLK...

lab3 - Perhaps one of your best written. Can't believe this generation is more interested in your ALL CAPS, than the knowledge you're tryin to pass along.

Keep crankin them keys! Did you try voice recognition? Pretty damn handy (pun intended, hands-free, so you can hold the vaporizer and still get the message out)!

to TREEHUGGER -

If you're gonna try and impersonate me, you may want to learn how to type, and you spelled your own country wrong...dumb fuck!

This is beyond ridiculous! Arthritis meds will make your stomach bleed and possibly kill you, but this guy goes to jail for having a plant that makes him function better (and thus be a more productive citizen)... Insanity. Just as bad is Arnold's response. As if that dude didn't get stoned all the time when he was a body builder and an actor.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY I HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN OUR GOV FUCK THEM FUCK THE POLITIONS AND FUCK THE USA LAND OF THE FREE MY ASS EVERY POLITION COP FED AND ANY GOV OFFICAL SHOULD ALL JUST DIE FUCK YOUR CRUPT SYSTEM

Hanus crime? You meant anus, clearly.

You posess some amazing political and grammatical skills, your nation must be very proud of you.

I don't know - Need answers? Simple.

The same bill that killed it - TAXES
If they can use taxation to kill a weed, we can use taxes to save our nation...or just continue to watch it crumble

Supervised neglect? 2 trillion in annual band-aids, while the foundation is crumbling?

This is the best the brightest can accomplish?

I HOPE HE GETS DEATHROW FOR THIS HANUS CRIME HE DID IN OALLAHOMA , ,OBEY THE LAW AND YOU WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS.
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST..
STOP INVADING MY COUNTRY IN ISBECKASTAN WE ARE KIND LOVING PEOPLE.
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JAILED FOR GROWING A PLANT THAT WAS CREATED BY NATURE AND HAS NOT KILL ONE PERSON TO DATE!!!! SERIOUSLY FUCK YOU DEA FBI CIA DROP THE SHIT GROW THE FUCK UP AND STUDY UP ON THIS "DRUG" AND STOP ALLOWING TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL FROM KILLING THOUSANDS VS 0 FROM MARIJUANA!!! WE ALL HAVE A VOICE THAT NEED TO BE HEAR SPEAK NOW WHILE WE HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD ATTENTIONS! AND CALI WILL LEAD THE WAY

WHY do we persecute people for victimless "crimes"????
racism, big business, and corruption... anyone else have an answer?

AllForOne - Please vote!

We have just weeks to stop the take over of family farms and ranches, organic and natural foods.

Write your congressmen, and vote NO FUCKIN WAY on Monsanto's
HR 875 and S. 425 [and similar bills such a H.R. 759]

The new administration is pushing new farm controls through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and the committee meetings are closed.

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? Our entire food system and thus our health is being decided without the public knowing. And those who do know have zero access and the media is absent and they are moving at warp speed to sew this up.

For more on your food choices - google CODEX, Monsanto, or Bill HR 875

http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3113337.htm
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

Global extinction of 90% of all plants and animals, approved by the FDA.

Oklahoma? Isn't that a death sentence? Don't do it Arnie.

We have companies manufacturing chemicals and calling them medicine
that will kill you,and they make billions,we grow a plant that won't kill you,and they lock us up. Who says justice isn't blind.