It Can't Happen Here! Part 1 Chapter 5

  by Dustin Costa
  in prison in Colorado for growing pot in California

Dusty Costa went to
Calaveras High School
in the 1960's

   So it was that when Prop 215 was passed by the voters of California, the state and federal government conspired
to squash it, the will of the people be damned.

   When it passed, then California Attorney General Dan Lundgren, towing the government's anti-marijuana line, declared that Prop 215 did not legalize medical marijuana - it merely gave the accused the possibility of an affirmative defense.

   In other words, it didn't matter a white that you had a medical reason for using marijuana. Prop 215 did not bar the arrest of patients or prosecuting them for possession of marijuana (or, in the case of caregivers like myself, for providing it to the sick and dying)

   All it did was give you a "chance" for acquittal at trial.

  (to be continued)