Busted for Growing Pot to Ease Suffering from Chemotherapy, Couple Prepares for 5-Year Prison Terms

[upstatecajun]

After more than six years of litigation, and three years of appeals for manufacturing and conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cannabis, Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry and her husband of 25 years, civil attorney Dale Schafer, attended a hearing at the US courthouse in Sacramento Monday week, in which their bonds were revoked and they were given a the date of May 2 to surrender to serve five-year federal prison terms

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/150353/busted_for_growing_pot_to_ease_suffering_from_chemotherapy_and_hemophilia%2C_couple_prepares_to_surrender_for_5-year_prison_terms/

[LynneSin]

1. On the bright side they'll get free medical care

I thought california had laws that allowed some marijuana

[walldude]

4. They do.. the feds don't care...

There was a raid two days ago. DEA along with California cops in tow. Raided a legal and licensed Medical Marijuana store.

edit: 2 stores.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Can't ANYONE bring up a state's rights lawsuit on this?

The RWers seem to manage it all the time - and they WIN.

[madokie]

24. Only if one can call prison health care, health care

I'm not so sure that is the case in comparisons to what is available in the so called free world.

[LynneSin]

29. for millions of americans - Prison healthcare is a step up from what they have

:cry:

[madokie]

31. Reality is that's true

sad as it is. The really sad part is the allowing ourselves to be enslaved like we have by the big corporations and special interests. How did they do it, I mean weren't we paying attention or what?

[pam4water]

43. The isn't any real medical care in prisons. That cost money.

[Turbineguy]

2. Destroy somebody

maybe you can get a promotion. Can't we just stick with the real criminals? Or are they too scary?

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, they go after the ones that can't fight back and go after stupid stuff. US=United Stupidity. n/...

[freshwest]

48. The real criminals might shoot back. This was shooting fish in a barrel. Easy work.

[tabasco]

3. When will this insanity end?

A: Not in my lifetime, thanks to stupid, gutless, corrupt politicians.

[RKP5637]

6. Don't hold your breath. We'll be long long dead and this place will still be totally F'ed up. n/t

[pokerfan]

9. Well, fortunately we have a guy in the White House

that's sure to put a stop to this. After all:

“I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue.”
--Barack Obama, March 28, 2008

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Ghost in the Machine]

26. I wonder what ever happened to that guy? I heard he won the election

but it seems like someone else took his palce in the White House.

[tabasco]

28. These folks were busted when Bush was [p]resident. n/t

[abq e streeter]

40. Gutless especially re: the "drug war" and its destruction of innocent lives.

[Gravel Democrat]

7. sounds like "a government making war on its own people"

Maybe the Netherlands can come to the rescue

[Initech]

8. WTF is wrong with this country???

[RKP5637]

10. It is a completely F'ed up place. I've just about lost hope, it's just too

Stupid. The stupidity of the US is beyond comprehension anymore. It's just one WTF after another.

[krabigirl]

11. Yep.

[Initech]

15. I hear ya.

[CrispyQ]

30. I feel the same way.

I was here once before - in 1981 when the Iranian hostages were released on Reagan's inauguration. I saw how willingly the American people let themselves be duped, because they didn't want to wear a sweater & cut back on their life styles. I didn't vote for the next 20 years. I think I'm there again.

[Canuckistanian]

12. A doctor and a lawyer couldn't defend themselves?

The laws are seriously fucked up. Either that or someone wanted this to become a lesson.

And WHY wasn't the doctor allowed to tell the court what his profession was?

This is BULLSHIT.

[Shallah Kali]

19. laws often bar affirmative defence such as illness, state permission to use medical mj

etc. Basically they are denied any legit reason to defend themselves and so get railroaded. it is a steaming load of bullcrap. Barney Frank keeps introducing bills to allow affirmative defense but never gets enough support for it to go anywhere and so the feds can go after people like these and waste unholy amounts of money and the time of law enforcement going after sick folks instead of going after real criminals.

[progressoid]

14. F#$%&*!

[WingDinger]

16. I came two shakes of a lambs tail from this.

Thug cops busted in my front door at midnite. Said thay had a call from neighbor that I was slamming a woman into the wall. Said they would come in, without a warrant. Unloaded right wing talking points at me. I went OFF. Told them what was what. Educated their dumbasses about the law. For about two hours, in handcuffs. Chased their sorry asses right out my door, as they kept imploring me to be quiet. I had gotten a crooked judge and cop busted by the AG two months prior. Yes, I was lucky, but if I am going down, I am going to bust heads doing so.

[Fly by night]

22. BINGO. The fastest way to get busted is to turn crooked judges/cops in.

My experience also. After calling the FBI and the USDOJ about a justice-for-sale scam in my county courthouse (which the feds did absolutely nothing about), my neighbors said I had been walking around with a target on my back ever since.

They were right.

FBN
Federal Bureau of Prisons # 16502-075

[midnight]

17. This is outrages... I hope this gets stopped...

[golddigger]

18. Fuck this country. The wife and I are just about ready to move to Norway.

Too many stupid ignorant people and laws.

[slay]

20. Honestly, if I were younger - I would leave this country - FUCKING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY DAMN!!!

this war on marijuana will go down in history as being one of the cruelest things the USA has ever done. It's only because it's a PLANT and a WEED that they drug companies can't patent - that's why it's illegal. if they could figure out how to get rich off it - it would be legal in a second!

fuck the DEA, fuck the prosecutor, fuck ANYONE who stands for this idiocy! this is so wrong - i wish to hell we could put the DEA on trial - they are nothing more than thugs protecting the alcohol and pharmaceutical industries under the guise of law. and Obama should be ASHAMED of himself for allowing this shit to continue to this day - even though he said it would end! he better fucking pardon these two before he leaves office.

what the hell is wrong with people putting people like this in PRISON for FIVE FUCKING YEARS?!?!? :banghead:

[Shagbark Hickory]

42. LOL OH MY GOD LOL . Wait til you get to Norway.

:rofl:

[Scuba]

21. Somebody tell Holder the crooks are on Wall Street, not in gardens. n/t

[blueamy66]

23. Totally fucked up.

I fear for my country and its people.

[PA Democrat]

25. Legalize pot, get rid of mandatory sentencing guidelines and

watch the US's rate of incarceration drop. I don't understand much of the public's love of the authoritarian "tough on crime" approach to law enforcement, especially when it comes to drugs.

[sarcasmo]

27. Legalize it now!

[felix_numinous]

32. An old couple with cancer- this administration is sociopathic

they are COWARDS for going after innocent people and NOT going after the real criminals in this country!!

[opihimoimoi]

So who are the cops to enforce this shit....looks like the old Bush leftovers in play

[AlbertCat]

33. Five Years???

For growing pot.

Ridiculous. How about a few years of community service for this tiny offense.

Hell, I got caught with 1/2 a joint in the car and I got ordered to go to 15 NA meetings. This is CRUEL & UNUSUAL punishment! NA is a friggin' religious cult. I, not being addicted to anything, am not welcome.

5 years in prison, like my stupid sentence, is simply absurd.

[Shagbark Hickory]

46. Yeah. They probably had A LOT of it. So much that the exuse of using for medicinal purposes

was too much of a stretch.

[Karmadillo]

34. No looking forward, not backwards here.

nt

[greiner3]

35. So the Feds are willing to spend;

Upwards of $150,000 to jail these two people?

Sick world indeed.

[CreekDog]

38. with your money

:rofl: :wtf:

[tridim]

36. CA needs to protest this. I would be if I were there.

[wildbilln864]

37. k&r! nt

[Taverner]

39. This is CALIFORNIA, not some podunk flyover sate, but CALIFORNIA

Where medical use is legal

Fuck it

This is not a Democracy

This is not a Republic

This is a Fascist Oligarchy

Fuck the USA

It needs to go DOWN

Burn baby Burn!

[lib2DaBone]

41. There is no longer any Representative by vote.... Democracy is dead...

Big Corporate money... bought and sold CONgress... it's all over but the crying.... The Borg control everything and everyone....

[pam4water]

44. K&R

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

45. This is justice? Who is served by this? Who is protected?

[reggie the dog]

47. a guy near here got busted for growing over 130 plants

and for running from the cops when they tried to raid him and he ended up getting 2 months in jail and they told him he would have only gotten probation had he not run, he was not a medical paitent, just an unemployed person who likely would have sold, i still think it sucks that he got busted, but this is france and you really have to be unlucky to actually get sentenced to jail for growing weed, if you sell you CAN get jail but again have to be really unlucky or be getting busted for the third or fourth time or something.

[thelordofhell]

49. Can't they just sing "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"

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