Believe it or not, I get an awful lot of mail from prisoners doing state time for nothing but smoking pot on probation. I can't believe we still haven't legalized that stuff all across the board.
Condolences to Richard's loved ones.
fuck this drug war:
disarm its enforcers,
disable its executioners,
and demolish its prisons.
LEGALIZE TODAY!!!!
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Five years ago, Montana's most outspoken medical marijuana patient - Robin Prosser - committed suicide after the DEA seized her medicine, making her life unbearable.
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Now flash forward to this past Wednesday night, when the feds' war on medical marijuana claimed another Montana citizen's life ...
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Former medical marijuana provider Richard Flor died on Wednesday after suffering heart attacks and kidney failure about six months into his five-year federal sentence. Richard was sentenced despite suffering from diabetes, Hepatitis C, and osteoarthritis.
For months, the federal government failed to place him in a facility that could give him the medical care he needed - and that the judge recommended.
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Richard was Montana's first registered caregiver, under a law that MPP passed via voter initiative in November 2004. He was assisting his wife Sherry - who suffers from chronic pain and is allergic to pain medications - as well as other patients.
Richard believed President Obama and his Justice Department when they said that medical marijuana providers would not be a federal enforcement priority. So, in 2009, Richard co-founded Montana Cannabis, where patients could get reliable, safe access to their medicine. But then the feds suddenly shifted their policy in March 2011, targeting Montana Cannabis and several other providers without warning.
The feds didn't spare Sherry, either: She is serving a two-year sentence.
Please email your U.S. House representative ( http://control.mpp.org/site/R?
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. If you'd like to send Sherry a sympathy card, please mail it to:
Sherry Flor #11358046
Federal Prison Camp
37930 North 45th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85086
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---from the Toke of the Town-------
A former medical marijuana provider in Montana died in federal
custody while being transported to federal prison Wednesday night.
Richard Flor, 68, was being sent from a private prison to a federal
prison when he had two heart attacks and passed away, Toke of the Town has learned.
Flor,
of Miles City, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison
on April 19. He had asked for leniency because he suffered from
numerous physical and mental ailments.
Flor,
his wife, Sherry, 55, and their son Justin, 35, all pleaded guilty to
drug charges related to a medical marijuana operation run out of their
home.
He co-owned Montana Cannabis, targeted in last year's Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids across Montana as part of the
Obama Administration's crackdown on medical marijuana. Federal agents
searched more than two dozen Montana medical marijuana businesses,
warehouses and residences in the wave of raids.
According
to the federal indictment, the three Flors were accused of conspiring
with unnamed coconspirators to grow more than 220 pounds of cannabis in
Helena, Miles City, and Three Forks, and to distribute the marijuana in
Billings, Helena, Miles City and Missoula.
Federal
agents claimed the Flors got at least $1.7 million in cash proceeds
from activity from January 2007 to March 15, 2011, according to the
indictment. The three were accused of laundering some of the money
through bank accounts to continue the operation.
The
Flors were also charged with having 28 firearms, including various
pistols, rifles, and semiautomatic and assault-style guns, according to
the indictment.
Remember Richard Flor...
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