I cannot believe this happens

[Melo 1]

I am still reading this - truly it makes me want to cry. After reading this page, click on prisoners photo gallery.

http://www.hr95.org/Memorial.html

[pri 0]

it is sad but cant do much..

hey you are desperate to get the star

[Melo 1]

This post was not about the star... this post is about injustice... why is this happening? Why should anyone die coz of a mistake made by the police? Why should people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes spend 10 years in prison? Why??? How can this be justified?

[almaty 19]

This post was not about the star... this post is about injustice... why is this happening? Why should anyone die coz of a mistake made by the police? Why should people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes spend 10 years in prison? Why??? How can this be justified?

melo, i like the way your thing and question things..a big

[Melo 1]

Thank you Dean

[Peter Miami 0]

Wow, this is unreal.

[cmartyn 0]

Looks like we got one of them thar hippies.. better get em.

Thwak.. thats better..

Thankya Jethro.

Wow, this is unreal.

[Lilith** 0]

I took time to read all the stories on your link....I believe there are cases where marijuana is useful for the relief of pain....as are many medicines.....maybe it should be turned on it's head and question the use of guns in America? at the end of the day these ppl were breaking the law AND they know their police officers carry guns WHO in return know that US citizens have guns in their houses........fingers get twitchy y'know.....

[Scott & Lai 12]

This post was not about the star... this post is about injustice... why is this happening? Why should anyone die coz of a mistake made by the police? Why should people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes spend 10 years in prison? Why??? How can this be justified?

It can't be justified; the drug war is a gross abuse of government power, and creates far more problems than it attempts to solve.

[Jasman0717 9]

[Lilith** 0]

This post was not about the star... this post is about injustice... why is this happening? Why should anyone die coz of a mistake made by the police? Why should people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes spend 10 years in prison? Why??? How can this be justified?

It can't be justified; the drug war is a gross abuse of government power, and creates far more problems than it attempts to solve.

soooooooooo...............hand it all over to the drug lords???

[Fandango 1,439]

The answer is to legalize marijuana!

This war on drugs only increases the value of the stuff on the street....which results in higher prices, and more desparation...and gives drug dealers more power....it's an economic fact. If you legalized certain drugs, it'd put the dealers straight outta business....

not to mention the revenue the country could stand to make off the taxation of it.

Why are cigarettes and booze legal and weed isn't? It's a double standard!

And this is gonna sound so callous of me....I went to the page, and it was sad to see and read all those stories...but I find it a bit ironic that one guy who was growing dope & in a standoff with the cops....was said to have a girlfriend actually named Mary Jane.

[Scott & Lai 12]

This post was not about the star... this post is about injustice... why is this happening? Why should anyone die coz of a mistake made by the police? Why should people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes spend 10 years in prison? Why??? How can this be justified?

It can't be justified; the drug war is a gross abuse of government power, and creates far more problems than it attempts to solve.

soooooooooo...............hand it all over to the drug lords???

Decriminalize it, and cut out the black market and the related crime and government abuses. Prohibition was a disaster in the '20s, and led to the rise of thugs like Al Capone. Prohibition required a Constitutional ammendment, and another one was required to end it. Where was the Constitutional authority for the Drug War? There has been a lot of comparing the war in Iraq to the Vietnam Conflict, but the Drug War is far more like Vietnam, imo.

[Lilith** 0]

Frances was pushed forcefully from the door at gun point. She cried out, "Don't shoot me, don't kill me!" With a gun aimed at her head, Frances looked to her right and saw Donald charging into the room, waving a revolver above his head. She heard a deputy shout, "Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Put the gun down!" As Scott was doing so, Frances heard three gun shots ring out, apparently from two sources.

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Throughout Labor Day weekend, according to law enforcement accounts, Crosslin and Rohm systematically burned down the ten structures on their beloved farm, shot at and hit a news helicopter filming the fires, shot at and missed a police surveillance plane, and sprayed the woods bordering the 34-acre property with gunfire to keep police at bay. Other reports say that the two were merely firing into the air to hold police at bay and other people at the scene questioned whether the two had actually fired their guns at all, asserting that they were merely being carried around as a possible self-defense. In any case, the two men allegedly confronted law officers with raised weapons, each to be shot dead in turn.

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The police tried to smash through the front door with a battering ram. Peters fired a .357 magnum through the door and was struck three times by the SWAT team.

Two pounds of marijuana were confiscated from his home. Records indicate that a confidential informant bought 7.3 grams of marijuana. An undercover detective purchased 27 grams. His brother George was charged and did not resist arrest. George said his brother wouldn't have resisted either, had he known they were deputies. "All they had to do," he said, "was knock on the door."

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I know ppl with medical condtions that use marjuana.....I may be heartless but I don't have much sympathy with these particular stories........my bad I guess....

[Melo 1]

So, someone can be shot dead for possessing marijuana which is less harmful than alcohol?

But why give only a selection of what happened... why not the whole story? To allow people to understand what really happened... here ithey are:

Massacre at Rainbow Farm, September 2001

Grover T. (Tom) Crosslin lived for the cause of marijuana legalization. In 2001, he died for it. Crosslin, 46, the owner and operator of Rainbow Farm, an alternative campground and concert site in Newberg Township outside of Vandalia, Michigan was shot and killed on his property by an FBI agent in the afternoon of September 3, 2001. His long-time partner, Rolland Rohm, was shot and killed early morning Sept. 4 by Michigan State Police on the property. The shootings ended a stand-off that had begun on August 31.

Beginning in 1996, Tom Crosslin had sponsored marijuana reform rallies under a variety of names at Rainbow Farm. While he was a visible and outspoken proponent of reforming marijuana laws, the rallies caused few legal problems until 2001. Things began to unravel in May, when local law enforcement authorities, using as a pretext the traffic death of a youth who had attended the festival, swept down on the campground, arresting Crosslin and his friend Rollie Rohm, among others, and charging them with a variety of marijuana and firearms violations.

Though police emphasized the traffic death (which occurred the day after the youth was at the campground) in justifying the bust at the time, they later revealed that it came as the result of a two-year-long investigation of Crosslin's farm activities.

By mid-summer, the pressure on Crosslin and Rohm was mounting. Crosslin faced 20 years in prison on marijuana and weapons charges, and was out of jail on a $150,000 bail bond as the state was moving to seize Rainbow Farm under civil asset forfeiture proceedings. A local judge had issued an injunction barring Crosslin from holding any further marijuana-related gatherings at the campground. And in a move that must have elevated the pair's situation from intolerable to unbearable, Michigan child welfare authorities had taken Rohm's 12-year-old son, Robert, and placed him in foster care after the May raid.

Obviously distraught, Crosslin decided that the government was not going to get the benefit of his many years of labor creating the Rainbow Farm. Throughout Labor Day weekend, according to law enforcement accounts, Crosslin and Rohm systematically burned down the ten structures on their beloved farm, shot at and hit a news helicopter filming the fires, shot at and missed a police surveillance plane, and sprayed the woods bordering the 34-acre property with gunfire to keep police at bay. Other reports say that the two were merely firing into the air to hold police at bay and other people at the scene questioned whether the two had actually fired their guns at all, asserting that they were merely being carried around as a possible self-defense. In any case, the two men allegedly confronted law officers with raised weapons, each to be shot dead in turn.

Donald Scott

Age 62 at the time of his death at his home in Malibu, CA. on October 2, 1992.

Scott and his wife, Frances Plante, were awakened by violent pounding at the door on the morning of October 2, 1992. As Frances attempted to open the door, a narcotics task force from the LA County Sheriff's Dept. burst into the home, weapons in hand.

Frances was pushed forcefully from the door at gun point. She cried out, "Don't shoot me, don't kill me!" With a gun aimed at her head, Frances looked to her right and saw Donald charging into the room, waving a revolver above his head. She heard a deputy shout, "Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Put the gun down!" As Scott was doing so, Frances heard three gun shots ring out, apparently from two sources.

Her husband was killed instantly.

Scott was a millionaire who owned 250 acres of breathtakingly beautiful land that was adjacent to federal park lands. Attempts had been made by the feds to buy the property, but Scott was not interested in selling. Claims that there might be pot growing on the land, made by agents who did aerial surveillance, were used to get a search warrant.

An official inquiry suggested that agents had hoped this raid would lead to asset forfeiture of the property Scott would not sell. The coroner's report listed the cause of death as a homicide. No marijuana was found. Scott did not even smoke it. In January, 2000, the Scott family won a $5 million wrongful death settlement from the government over the shooting.

Robert Lee Peters

Age 33 at time of death in St. Petersburg, FL in July, 1994. Deputies did not identify themselves before breaking into the house as the family prepared to watch a movie. Friends and relatives say Robert may have mistaken them for burglars. Deputies did not know there were two children and his ailing stepfather (who had a heart attack after the shoot-out) in the house at the time of the no-knock raid.

The police tried to smash through the front door with a battering ram. Peters fired a .357 magnum through the door and was struck three times by the SWAT team.

Two pounds of marijuana were confiscated from his home. Records indicate that a confidential informant bought 7.3 grams of marijuana. An undercover detective purchased 27 grams. His brother George was charged and did not resist arrest. George said his brother wouldn't have resisted either, had he known they were deputies. "All they had to do," he said, "was knock on the door."