…to make me post again. I’ve been meaning to post other things as well, but blogging has fallen by the wayside. again.
From Rob Kampia at the Marijuana Policy Project, a policy reform organization lobbying for medical pot laws:
On October 7, Steven Tuck, a California medical marijuana patient who fled to Canada to avoid going to jail after being raided for growing his own marijuana, was snatched from a hospital by Canadian authorities, driven to the border with a urinary catheter still attached, and turned over to U.S. authorities for prosecution. He was held in jail for five days without medical treatment and without having his catheter removed.
He was released from a Seattle jail to seek medical care last Thursday, but when his treatment is over, he must return to California to face a federal marijuana charge.
Tuck, an Army veteran, used marijuana to treat the chronic pain stemming from a 1987 parachute accident in the Army. Is this how our government rewards its veterans?
Well? Is it?
May their god damn the powers that be to their respective visions of hell. And while we’re at it, Canada, wtf? YOU ARE NOT THE FIFTY-FIRST STATE. Tell them to go fuck off. Or have you finally lost your spine?
If you’re as galled at this as I am, or even a little, please spread it far and wide as a personal favor to me. More about the case is here.
