ARRESTED! Cannabis prohibition has got to end!
Today the love of my life, my partner of 26 years was arrested and taken into custody for cannabis. A charge in Hawaii from nearly three years ago.
As we were living our peaceful lives here on the Snake River in Washington, an everyday encounter with the police, turned into handcuffs and an indefinite jail sentence. I am now alone and fearful of what will happen to him. So I guess I will take you back to June 2015..
After working very hard for 12 years we had built an oasis from bare lava.
In 2003, while living in Oregon, where we are from, and after mr. choosefreedom’s (Billy) mom died of cancer at the age of 47, we bought an acre of land on the slopes of Mauna Loa ( Big Island Hawaii) for $4500 and moved onto it. We lived in a tent for a year and saved money to build the first small part of our house.
We worked for 12 years on that piece of land and it grew into a beautiful home of nearly 2000 sqft. surrounded by grass and fruit trees.
In the end of June of 2015, on a beautiful sunny morning, with baby peeps (chickens) running around the yard, 8 men in body armor showed up as I was making coffee and preparing to give my 14 year old dog with cancer her medication.
They said they were “police” and they pointed a shotgun at me in my pajamas. They claimed someone had said we were “harboring dangerous criminals” (local Hawaiian carjackers, guys we had never heard of). They said they smelled weed and wanted to search.
We were arrested, but released without charges, they just took the weed. We got a lawyer and checked in with him once a week for 6 months. Nothing.. Our lawyer told us “we probably just got robbed” and we should “move on with our lives”. We did.
Today however, we find Billy was charged sometime since then. So now he sits, awaiting extradition to Hawaii for weed charges, and I am alone and afraid of what will happen next.
They plan to fly an officer from Hawaii to escort him back to face charges. In 2018 this is what our hard earned money is paying for through taxes. If you feel so inclined, call Hawaii County prosecutor and tell them what a waste of taxpayer dollars this is.
No victim, no crime.
Peace
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@choosefreedom, I see this post is very old, this happened right as we left town. Please reply if you read this, I want to know how you are doing and what is happening, and what I can do to help.
I also am hearing this for the first time, and am very sad this has happened to you.
Prohibition needs to end!
Please know that we are concerned for you, and want to be of assistance.
I hope all is swiftly resolved and you are reunited with Mr. Freedom soon.
To be clear, this is NOT me, this is another steemian who I considered a friend - her husband was arrested. Thank you for your kind words though!
I know that. I've been following @choosefreedom for a while, but missed this post, and haven't heard from her since.
Thanks!
Oh, good, I just wanted to make sure you did not think it was me.
Yeah, Clarkston is not terribly far from me. I wish I knew how to find her, I would go up there. Considering the reaction her post got, I doubt she will ever come back to steemit.
Hello friend, I’ve just seen this post. Thank you so much for your concern and kind words. I have started posting again here on steemit and just bought some steempower so I could comment and post more freely. I’ve been enjoying reading your posts as much as ever and am so happy to find you are still here.
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Welcome back! refollowed in the hope of more great posts from you.
Welcome to the community... great post... have fun… !!!
Did you even read the post? And then upvoted yourself? Really?
They sure did, Wow some people.
Very sad when people rob. I'm from Oregon and heard people were arrested for collecting rain water. I was on the big island and on Oahu, Hawaii. I'm near Seattle too. Weed does help some people. I hate prohibitions.
Sorry to hear about that sad story. If it makes you feel any better, we are at the cusp of these laws turning as the pressure increases to change the laws that apply to those living in and being a part of "the US". It will be one of the first places on Earth to turn it around large-scale, and the rest of the governments will follow. It might happen this year still, as the statistics from the few legal states really can't be denied even by the most stubborn of contollers.
They will also need a new pacifier for a waking public, so it's in their best interest to make it available in the short-term to at least appear to act in the public's best interest (if that is even possible anymore).
Breathe, it will all work out even if it seems bleak right now. This change is long overdue and with it - the dropping of all related charges. Too many families have been affected.
I’ve recently returned to steemit after a year off and I want to thank you for your kind words of support and encouragement last year.
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Yikes... more and more stories like this lately. Do you have everything you need in terms of shelter and all that for the short term?
I will survive!
Hello @choosefreedom!
I noticed you have posted many times since you began your journey on Steemit. That is great! We love active partipants.
I do want to point out that the Introduceyourself tag is meant to be used once only to introduce yourself to the Steemit community. You have now posted 6 times using the introduceyourself tag. Please see this link for more information on Tag Spam?
Please take this into consideration and help build a great platform!
Wow.
Hey I'd love to help you grow this account. And thanks for the votes.
And are you in the Oregon area still?
Hope things are better now!
Love you family and don't listen to the haters.
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We are in Mexico now. I was pretty disappointed in Steemit when I last posted. I had never participated in social media before steemit and I’m 40 years old. With over 1200 followers, and many I thought of as friends, I received very little support. We are doing great down here. We have a lawyer working to get the charges dropped in Hawaii. Billy was released from jail in Washington after 19 agonizing days. Hawaii decided not to extradite. We stayed in Oregon for the summer, but when fall hit we headed south. I really appreciate your continued advocacy for cannabis freedom and your reaching out. Thank you.
Come back I'd love to help you earn more! And nice that you are somewhere amazing!
And court drama is never good. Glad your out of there for sure!
And always need people help advocate for the healing plant that can save our sick people.
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Wish you guys all the best, hope everything gets solved nicely.
Welcome to STEEM family wish you all the best.
Sorry for that sad story.
You are spamming the introduceyourself category by posting a non-introductory post. Please edit your post and remove the introduceyourself tag.
I would if I could but I think if it is the first one I list I cannot change it. In my defense, I am introducing a new part of myself to the steemit community. Please forgive me if I have offended your idea of what @introduceyourself should be.
Simply be careful. You can get flagged or reported and lose credibility.