60-day jail sentence for man who grew marijuana to help cancer-stricken wife

60-day jail sentence for man who grew marijuana to help cancer-stricken wife

UPDATE: The 69-year-old who grew marijuana to help his cancer-stricken wife was sentenced to jail on Friday morning

Gary Burton must serve 60-days behind bars for growing two pot plants in Chippewa Lake. He will also serve 30 days house arrest and will undergo drug testing for two years.

Burton says he was growing the plants for medicinal purposes, to help ease his wife's pain due to her breast cancer treatments.

http://www.woio.com/Global/story.asp?S=14585545

K&R for visibility.

And the individual in Louisiana who received life in prison for being a "habitual marijuana offender", it demonstrates the war on marijuana users and growers hasn't abated at all, instead it's actually gone full throttle.

What a complete waste of time and money, not too mention the completely unjust deprivation of freedom and liberty these people are experiencing.

Oasis

Obama is doing many good things, but when it comes to the stupid "drug war," he continues to do one bad, stupid, mean-spirited thing after another.

Why?

My guess is that he is completely beholden to Big Pharma.

Which would also explain the Healthcare debacle.

Who rats these people out? I mean.... REALLY?

He could be looking at 10-25 for "possession with intent to distribute" to his wife.

He should be counting his blessings as long as the fucked up laws are in place.

Shouldn't a jury of one's peers include people with an actual moral center?

And this is nothing but speculation and stereotypes here, but most likely you had a jury of tight assed suburbanite parents who have children under age 18. Those people tend to be the harshest about drug policy.

many on the left are afraid to engage the right in a national discussion for fear of being labeled as pro-stoned out druggies, when in ACTUALITY this is a fight that's LONG overdue, especially when all of the facts support our positions.

1) Marijuana is non-addictive and safe, and in actuality has many medicinal benefits--especially for those suffering from terminal and long term illnesses.

2) We spend billions enforcing, prosecuting and incarcerating those whose only offense is engaging in its use. Government funds that can and should be directed to FAR more productive endeavors.

3) Said prosecution breaks up families, placed additional strain on our social services, and needlessly overcrowds our jails and prisons.

Our politicians (on the left) are simply afraid. If we demonstrate that we're NOT, maybe that will provide them with the political cover ( even though it shouldn't be necessary) to end this "War" against something so benign as marijuana.

Oasis

Seems that's all any politician cares about these days.

presidential administration, is owned by the bankers. And the bankers are owned by the two sides of the drug industry, both the "legal" one and the "underground" one.

When you become aware that 33% of Mexico's economy was related to tourism, 33% to oil, and 33% to drug monies, and then you realize that the cartels send some one of the family up north to buy a bank and launder the money, all the while going to the local Catholic Church, hanging out with the local politicians, and amping up the disinformation campaign against marijuana, then you begin to see how until we get campaign finance reform efforts underway that don't allow for Big Bankers to own our politicans, we will always have our politicians claiming that they think drug use should continue to be illegal.

And Big Pharma needs marijuana to be illegal also. Much work has been done on cannibinoids and their properties, and various cannibinoids do things like shrink tumors, reduce spasms in parapalegics and MS patients, heal Staph taht is resistant to other antibiotics, etc. The Big Pharma people want to patent these cannbinoids and use them for additional profit. Why should the American people be allowed to grow their own, when instead they could be paying big bucks to the Big Pharmaceutical companies, when those companies are so addicted to profit?

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Until taht happens the drugs wil be illegal.

Fucking incredible...

I haven't heard the phrase "colored man" since I left Mississippi in the late 60s.

Thanks for reminding me why I left.

MJ is the only way I'm getting through chemo. 2 more rounds and it's getting rough. I hope you all are well.

Enough.

going through the entire trial procedure, the cost of imprisonment, the cost to his wife -

honestly - what kind of sick fucks convict someone like this?