Help a Cancer Patient, Go to Prison For 100 Years
The trial of Charles Lynch, originally scheduled to start Tuesday, now is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, July 23. Lynch operated a medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, Calif. — legal under state law and with permission from the city. But the county sheriff, vehemently opposed to medical marijuana dispensaries, called in the Drug Enforcement Administration, which raided the dispensary and filed drug charges against Lynch.
Check out this Reason TV video for details about the case, including a 17-year-old cancer patient Lynch helped, with his parents’ full support. Partly because a few of the dispensary’s patients were under 21, Lynch faces a potential 100 years in federal prison. And because this is a federal trial, the jury won’t be allowed to hear evidence that the marijuana Lynch provided was for medical purposes.
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This young man’s life is in jeopardy all because he was trying to help make the lives of some sick and disabled people a little bit better. What a shame.
This case should bring outrage from the people of this supposedly free country. It’s just too bad the media coverage surrounding it will be virtually non-existent.
I will keep Charles Lynch and his family in my prayers.
I feel our elected representatives are sacrificing our lives to keep the drug war alive. They put us in jail to perpetuate the funding that flows in from PAC’s that want bud kept illegal. I feel they should be put in jail like the Nazis before them. They know what they are doing and have decided that ruining a few thousand lives a year is just the cost of doing business. As they count there money donated by the beer industry, the so called legal drug industry and the industry that provides private jail cells at the cost of 40.000 a year. This one-day will be viewed as a crime against the American people being incarcerated for greed and personal gain wake up American change the law put these people in jail where they belong! Stop the War on the American people aka War on drugs
Written by a mother for her only son a victim of the War on drugs.
The “War on Drugs” is a guise to control and confuse
It’s a war against the rights that they want us to lose
As the losses mount up and the prisons continue to fill
I sickeningly wonder how much more blood they’ll spill
By far, the most debilitating loss I’d personally face
Are the years stolen from my child, that I can’t replace
And the memory of the tears on his tortured face . . .
I wonder how many of the cops that busted him would test clean if there was an unannounced drug test on all of them. I know MPP doesn’t condone tests but what’s good for us is good for the cops too.
There are members of my family that benefit from the use of bud but they have to buy and use it illegally.
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