It is disturbing to see Court cases where there are no victims and
the only losers are the defendant and the taxpayers and one should be
forgiven for thinking such cases to be politically or religiously
motivated.
Sadly this is happening daily throughout the
country in particular the likes of those prosecuted for possession or
cultivation of cannabis for their own use in private.
It
is even more shocking when these people are sent to prison for growing
plants for medicinal use whilst GW Pharmaceuticals are licensed to grow
tens if not hundreds of thousands of the same plants that they use to
produce their highly profitable and expensive Sativex.
One
incredible distinction made by Government is that Sativex is now
scheduled in the UK as a drug with medicinal value whereas the plants
themselves are still scheduled as a drug with no medical use.
Incredible
to think that a pharmaceutical company is capable of creating a product
with medicinal value from a plant with no medical value when the only
difference is the alcohol used in the extraction process and the
peppermint used in the flavouring.
It's little short of a scientific miracle, magic or alchemy, like turning lead into gold.
Can
you imagine a time when lead is in fact turned into gold but the
process was limited to the rich and powerful and anyone else risks
prison for even trying it - even possession of lead is illegal? I
would call that tyranny.
That is what is happening in the UK and Neil Morgan’s recent imprisonment is one example.
Neil
had been growing cannabis for his own use for many years and been sent
to prisons and fined several times before his most recent case.
In
all the cases there was nobody else involved, there were no victims, it
was done in private, but despite Neil's attempts to stand up for his
Right to a Private Life, Neil was repeatedly punished by the courts.
So
it does not take much to see that if Neil was doing no harm to anyone
or causing no risk to public health the only reason why he was
prosecuted at all - was due to laws made by politicians, law that seem
to favour the profits of big businesses.
How much longer will the public
vote in these tyrannical prohibitionists that put law above Justice and
profits above people?
How much longer will we stand for it?
Maybe
people would wake up if it was tea and not cannabis - if the only tea
they could get was many times the price from the chemist - of course
cannabis and tea are very different plants - for a start tea has less
medicinal value and uses and cannabis is less toxic.
FREE NEIL MORGAN: https://www.facebook.com/freeneilmorgan?fref=ts
UK: Cannabis user said prosecution was "breach of human rights" (Neil Morgan)
South Wales Evening Post
Sunday 18 May 2014
A MAN convicted of growing cannabis told a court if he was jailed there would be no-one to look after his dogs.
But
a judge said, while he was sympathetic towards the animals, he would
not be emotionally blackmailed and sentenced 58-year- old Neil Morgan
to a year behind bars.
Swansea
Crown Court heard Morgan had changed his lifestyle and switched from
the growing of cannabis to producing mead and breeding dogs. He was
convicted by a jury after standing trial at the court after denying
cultivating drugs.
He had previously told the court he believed the prosecution was a breach of his human rights.
Morgan, from Hillrise Park in Clydach, has a long list of previous convictions for growing or possessing the drug.
His
barrister Carina Hughes told Judge Paul Thomas that since his arrest
for this latest offence, Morgan said he had broken his 40-year
addiction to cannabis and instead turned his interests to making mead
and breeding Jack Russell dogs.
Miss
Hughes said Morgan had known he faced prison and had, in the time
since his conviction, tried to re-home the 17 dogs, but not all had
been.
Miss Hughes said:
"He has had a significant change in attitude. In my submission, if he
is given a custodial sentence then there's a potential here for him to
take steps backwards. "
If
he comes out of prison destitute, with no home, no dogs and having
lost his mead interest he's likely to turn back to use cannabis."
But
Judge Thomas then said that any attempt by Morgan to use the dogs to
"emotionally blackmail" the court would not work because Morgan had
known for more than a year he was likely to go to prison.
The
judge told him although Miss Hughes had said everything she could on
his behalf, because she did not represent him at trial she had not seen
his "unrepentant" attitude throughout.
"Had
you decided not to contest this matter, it may be that there would be
some scope, although unlikely, for a different outcome.
"The time has come that you must learn that cultivating cannabis is an offence, whatever your personal views.
"I had, and still have, huge sympathy for your dogs but you have had over a year to do something about that," he added.
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Cannabis-user-said-prosecution-breach-human/story-21106957-detail/story.html#Tpk0jaelIEiW1tjx.99
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