My name is Jason and I am in desperate need of donations to pay for bonds and lawyer fees. My girlfriend Jennifer and I were recently busted for growing marijuana for personal use. I have a family and two kids. I work a full time job and substitute marijuana for prescription anxiety pills. Since the police in my town are so against the smoking of pot they are now charging me with 2 class a felonies for less than 5 grams of marijuana (these charges carry life sentences). I am not a drug dealer and have always kept it personal, but now am facing losing my family because of a corrupt system. Please help anyway possible thru donations, legal advice, or just support would be greatly appreciated. I have set up a pay-pal account and am needing to accomplish collecting $40,000 dollars for our bond and attorneys fees. If you would like to help, let us know through our email, marijuanalegalfunds@yahoo.com. Here is a link to the local paper on their version of events:

http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/span-18926-style-font.html#slComments

We truly appreciate your support.

A message to our people in power:
Quit busting stoners and concentrate on a crime with a victim! That’s my 2 Cents.

The Netherlands – 1976
Portugal -2001
Mexico – 2009
Argentina – 2009
USA – ??????

as stated in the Staff Summary of Public Testimony in the Senate Bill Report on SB 5615

“PRO: It is important to focus on and get back to the
fundamental principles. The purpose of government is to protect and maintain the rights of individuals. Government should not interfere in individual choices and make something a crime unless it infringes on someone’s life, liberty, or property. Those who possess
marijuana are not infringing on other people’s rights, yet the government spends great amounts of money on prosecuting this low level crime. In 2007 over $7.6 million was spent on putting over 11,000 people in jail for misdemeanor possession. Law enforcement made
11,553 arrests that lead to 3,368 convictions and 16,183 days spent in jail pursuant to these convictions.
Police are unavailable to apprehend the real criminals for committing real crimes because their time is spent chasing after people possessing marijuana. Time should be spent on domestic violence, pedophiles, burglars, and robbers who are truly infringing upon others’
rights. The costs increase because the persons arrested and convicted of these low level crimes spend the rest of their lives struggling to get jobs and homes and are prohibited from receiving federal student financial aid. These people then become a burden on society for the rest of their lives. Making this crime a civil infraction would greatly reduce the costs attributable to these crimes. This legislation is not soft on crime, nor does it encourage drug
abuse. Rather, it makes more resources available to address the real crimes and allows for a more efficient, fair, and proportionate use of resources.
Marijuana should be thought of as a public health issue rather than relying on criminal sanctions. Our goals are to reduce crime and public disorder, improve public health, ensure better protection of children, and make wiser use of public resources. Right now, these are not being accomplished, but this bill is a step in the right direction.

CON: Long-term studies on patterns of drug usage among young people show that very few young people get started on more serious drugs without having used marijuana first.Therefore, marijuana is a precursor drug. People who use marijuana are more likely to use
cocaine than those who have never used marijuana. Youth might perceive marijuana usage as a less serious drug if this legislation is passed and feel freer to use it which would lead to more serious drug use.”

This portion alone in the pro section

“Government should not interfere in individual choices and make something a crime unless it infringes on someone’s life, liberty, or property. Those who possess
marijuana are not infringing on other people’s rights”

states that marijuana consumption should not be illegal period.

the statement in the con section

“Long-term studies on patterns of drug usage among young people show that very few
young people get started on more serious drugs without having used marijuana first.”

is only true because you are forced to buy through a drug dealer that most the time peddles multiple illegal substances which in turn have the same penalties as harmless pot. Leading the buyer to beleave if i get in just as much trouble why not move up to something harder mabe its just as harmless as pot with a much stronger high (which is of course not true).

Acctually from my various talks with people, the group that wants canabus to remain illegal, seems to be drug dealers. The drug dealers realize that legalization of weed would cause such a drop in demand that most (not all) dealers would go out of bussiness as weed makes up most new customers and the largest amount of revinue.

There for I conclude that the greatest weapon in the “War against Drugs” would be federal and state legalization of canabus in all amounts for personal and medical use, and to allow personal cultivation of plants.