Yesterday, Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Crystal Munoz, a woman who spent 12 years in prison after some friends used a map she drew to smuggle marijuana. Here, our 2017 look at her case, and the cases of others who are behind bars for cannabis
Conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and structuring currency transactions to evade federal reporting requirementsPatricia Albright learned how to use pot as medicine under the worst imaginable circumstances: her son, Trevor, then age 8, was dying of cancer. By that point, he’d lost both eyes to the retinoblastoma he’d been diagnosed with at 16 months old.
After her son’s death, she continued to make marijuana products for people suffering from a host of painful conditions. “I gave away medicine to AIDS, cancer, heart, dialysis, MS, cerebral palsy and epileptic patients,” she says. She herself had a prescription for medical marijuana she used to treat the anxiety and PTSD she experienced after the trauma of taking care of her dying child, and she and her son Jordan ran a medical pot collective with eight other people.
Offered a plea deal of four years in prison for her, and one year of home supervision for her son, Albright refused, claiming that she’d done nothing wrong or illegal. But that didn’t matter in federal court. “I have learned since my indictment that a medical marijuana defense is not allowed in most federal courts,” shein 2013. “Neither is the fact that we were totally legal and compliant with state and county laws.
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