Police, Marijuana Activists and Ghandi

This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on April 29, 2014.

As we advance our rights as marijuana patients, it’s often difficult to disregard the few within law enforcement that appear to go out of their way to victimize marijuana patients. It especially stings when senior citizens like Barbara and Sal Agro, in their 70’s are bullied for their choice of a legal medicine. Sitting by and watching some one, some thing, much larger than you invade and destroy your neighbors can make you do and say some equally unpleasant things in return. Us activists must look like ‘real screwballs’ for reminding the rest of us about these injustices.

Whenever we receive a horrible story sent us at the MPO; tales of children taken, guns to honor-roll students heads, and actual death at the hands of law enforcement, all against legal patients and in the name of good, remaining calm is the challenge. My own life has been disrupted by these masked men on the bench as well as the patrol car.

You see, for every victim the judicial system claims, we get far more positive tales about medical marijuana. With my own eyes I have seen family, friends and strangers find relief with this amazing medicine.

Now, whenever I read another tale or witness first-hand the broken system where legal cannabis is regulated by the same individuals that seek to destroy it, I am calmed by the fact that one day marijuana will be there for these raiders. Medicine that will, if needed, be available for these masked men, their family and friends and turn water in to wine for these non-believers.

While I am not a religious person, my guess would be this type of humility or divine wisdom is a kin to the teachings of Ghandi, Jesus Christ and other leaders. Marijuana prohibition is a very-short dark period in our history, but for those rotting in cages, the time is now.