Eddy Lepp Free After 8 Years In Prison

~Zen~ · Dec 7, 2016

Eddy Lepp FREE after 8 Years in Prison!

Eddy Lepp was released from Florence Supermax this morning, and flown first class to San Francisco by friends and supporters including Heidi Grossman.
He will be in a halfway house for a while, but able to have visitors, unlike in prison.

Here is the full story:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/07/cannabis-convict-eddy-lepp-free-after-long-prison-term/

Free after eight years of federal imprisonment, one of the nation’s most celebrated cannabis convicts is coming home to California this afternoon, released from a Colorado prison into a profoundly changed world.
Charles “Eddy” Lepp, a frail but outspoken 64-year-old Vietnam vet and ordained Rastafarian minister, was convicted in 2007 in federal court for doing something that the state now calls legal: growing marijuana.
Supporters revere him as a “Pot POW” in the war against drugs, a hero who paid dearly in the fight for rights that many now enjoy.
“He’s free!” cheered supporters, who welcomed him with hugs and cheers in a motor home outside the gates of Florence Correctional Institution. He was then served a hot breakfast of eggs, toast and a pile of fragrant bacon, washed down by a Dr Pepper soda.
Lepp arrives — flying first class, with a cane, beard and “rastacap” hat — into San Francisco International Airport this afternoon, then will be dropped off at his new home: a San Francisco-based halfway house.
“Eddy Lepp is a true marijuana martyr,” said Dale Gieringer of the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Calling him “a true believer,” Gieringer said “he never once tried to hide what he was doing. His garden was like an act of civil disobedience.”
Prosecuted during the tough-on-drugs George W. Bush administration, Lepp’s case also represents the deep — and tense — standoff between state and federal policies; one permissive, the other punitive. While a U.S. appeals court ruled in August that the federal government may not spend money prosecuting marijuana growers who comply with state laws, there are anxieties that Congress could appropriate new funds.
Proposition 64, approved by voters last November, establishes licenses for commercial growers. Licenses will be issued beginning on Jan. 1, 2018 to small- and medium-sized farms already licensed by local officials. One specific category of license, called Type 5, allows what it calls “large cultivators” with more than one-acre outdoors. But those licenses won’t be available to Jan. 1, 2023.
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GeorgeJetStoned · Dec 7, 2016

I have always thought of that halfway house requirement as nothing more than a last slap in the face for political prisoners like this. A person like this is not going to have adjustment issues the way a REAL criminal might. Even after 8 years he's getting out knowing he was being used as an "example" by an oppressive court system. Packing him into a cage built for murderers and rapists was another layer of humiliation foisted upon him by a sadistic misuse of our justice system. A clear example of abuse of power gone amok.

At least he's not also on the no-fly list!

~Zen~ · Dec 7, 2016

“I would rather do ten years and be able to look myself in the eyes than never be able to look myself in the eyes again.”
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~Eddy Lepp

~Zen~ · Dec 7, 2016

http://www.occnewspaper.com/cannabis-legend-eddy-lepp-released-from-federal-prison/

More information.... about Eddy... time to write a story, I was there.

~Zen~ · Dec 7, 2016

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/LXdTxC9qp5o

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