Two men will spend a combined 41 years in prison for providing medicine to the sick and dying. You would have to be a very disturbed individual to find this outcome “justice.” Two lives ruined and countless others are left without the legal medicine they need to survive.
… Luke Scarmazzo, 28, was sentenced to 262 months in prison — 21 years, 10 months — in U.S. District Court in Fresno. His co-defendant, Ricardo Ruiz Montes, 28, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Both were convicted in May of manufacturing marijuana and distributing the drug, as well as operating a continuing criminal enterprise. The two men operated a medical marijuana dispensary known as the California Healthcare Collective that was raided by law enforcement officials in September 2006.
The Modesto Bee | 22-year prison term for Modesto marijuana seller.
My questions to the government: Where is the victim? What harm was done? If there is no victim, there is no crime. The incarceration of these men is simply unjustified kidnapping. The drug warriors are using the violent aggression of force to enforce an arbitrary moral code. A moral code that believes violence is justified to prevent someone from slightly altering their consciousness and feeling mildly euphoric by using the medicine that naturally occurs in a plant. Some day we will look back on these crimes against humanity as another American holocaust. God help America.
My wife wanted to ad: Why doesn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger do something to stop the US Government from interfering with California law? The governor has a duty to uphold the rule of law in California and if that means throwing the DEA out, then that’s exactly what he should do.
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Yeah Arnie, flex your muscles and kick the frickin DEA out of CA!