I should have posted this yesterday for the holiday but thanks to Tits McGee for catching the link to this historic grow-op that remains to this day, one of the most ingenious grow systems ever invented.
Oh by the way, since 4/20 fell on a Friday this year, it's traditional to celebrate the holiday all weekend long. Smoke em if you got em....
I want a federal investigation into the Tallapoosa County DA's office, the Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force, the Tallapoosa County Sheriff's Office, the Alexander City Police Department and into Judge Kim Taylor's office. I want to know how many people are in jail on bullshit charges like mine. I know that I cannot be the only one. I want the Alabama Bar Association to investigate the complaints I am in the process of filing against the DA and Deputy DA of Tallapoosa County. I'd like both E. Paul Jones and Damon Lewis's license to practice law hanging on my wall. I want them arrested, prosecuted and jailed. I have to "make an example out of them" and "send a strong message" that there will be "zero tolerance" for this kind of prosecutorial misconduct.
And that's just the beginning. The LEOs of Tallapoosa County thought they had an easy target and would intimidate Loretta into shutting up by pursuing these trumped up charges against her and I remind you this all started simply because Loretta wrote a letter to the editor of her little local paper advocating for the legalization of marijuana. They're going to find out they bought themselves a formidable adversary and a tireless fighter for justice.
Congrats Loretta for the win and good luck in running these abusers of our legal system to ground.
As I said in this post at Newshoggers, it's easy to talk big if you've never faced down a gunman. I have -- twice in my life. If you're interested in the details, I describe the experiences at some length in that post.
Ed Rosental is a marijuana activist who was growing pot for the City of Oakland after a state law was passed legalizing medical marijuana. There is no person on earth more qualified than Ed Rosenthal for the job. He literally wrote the book. I had dinner with him once in New York, back in 1971. I doubt he would remember me, but I never forgot him. By no stretch of the imagination could this man be considered a danger to society.
The feds came in and arrested him for culitvation under federal law. The trial was ugly but Ed was eventually sentenced to one day in jail and his conviction was later overturned on a technicality. The feds are now retrying him on the exact same charges, even though he can't go to jail because he already served the sentence. They're going to spend tens of thousands of your tax dollars simply to harass Ed and intimidate reformers and medical marijuana patients.
Not to mention, while they're wasting our government's limited resources on persecuting a gardener, thieves, con artists, murderous bigots and corrupt politicians will go free because they don't have the manpower to investigate and prosecute them. And they call the potheads crazy?
I'm talking about ziplines. For those of you without the fond childhood memories I bring to this, a zipline is a cable strung up between two poles on a slope of some kind. The intrepid zipliner grabs onto a couple of handles welded onto a pulley and slides down. Braking usually consists of falling off before you hit the pole, or dragging one's heels on the ground if you're big enough.
Click the link to check out the pictures. I feel like running down to Mexico and giving it a try.
