It Started with Lyme Disease
SUBMITTED BY ELIZABETHMy name is Elizabeth. I spent two years in prison.I was an upstanding person. Graduated high school valedictorian, college scholarship recipient, business owner and manager. No...
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SUBMITTED BY ANONYMOUSMy husband, my brother, and I were arrested last year for a medical marijuana grow house with 656 plants in Las Vegas, NV. Both my husband and I were massage therapists and had...
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SUBMITTED BY TINAI have had medical problems ever since I was born. I had two major foot operations known as corrective pes cavus. A year later I was told I might never walk again. After many years as...
View ArticleThe cops killed our dog
SUBMITTED BY JESSICA PAXTON (WITH DANIEL HALL)On Monday July 9, 2012 I was witness to the brutal murder of beloved pet Boyd by the Garland SWAT Team. As my boyfriend Daniel and I sat watching...
View ArticleDo I have a second chance because I'm white?
SUBMITTED BY GABEI was a college student with a history of selling low-level drugs. I’d done it not just to make money but to fit in and engage with people. One day the cops found pot and LSD in my...
View ArticleJudge says I'll "go to hell" for medical marijuana
SUBMITTED BY AMANDA I live in Mississippi and just want to live a normal life without pain and constant migraines stemming from a vehicle accident when I was 19. I want to finish my college degree and...
View ArticleHe took a battering ram to the chest
SUBMITTED BY TAMMYMy husband and I had been married 10 days when the drug task force in North Richland Hills, Texas, raided our home. They hit the door once with the battering ram; my husband opened...
View ArticleHe died homeless and bankrupt due to drug war
SUBMITTED BY VICTORMy friend, his dad was dying. Liver failure due to Hep C made him turn bright yellow. Toxic.He wasn't going to receive a new liver. It was futile.Medications weren't helping; severe...
View ArticleThe cop threatened to kill my son
SUBMITTED BY MELANIEMy 17 year-old son and three of his friends went to smoke a joint of marijuana between classes at the plaza beside the school. No, they shouldn't of done it but they did...they are...
View ArticleThey killed my dog over someone else's pot
SUBMITTED BY ADAMAfter I lost a job, a friend offered a place to stay for me and my one-year-old Labrador. This friend was selling small amounts of marijuana, and I probably shouldn’t have been staying...
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SUBMITTED BY CHIP I spent 6.25 years in prison on two convictions—possession and conspiracy to traffic marijuana. I was released in 1998 with no education other than my high school diploma and no...
View ArticleEntrapped at age 17
SUBMITTED BY MARKI am Mark Cooper, now 58 years old. I grew up in Dallas, Texas. In 1972, while 17 years old, still in high school, an undercover nark, who posed as a high school student, asked me to...
View ArticleFired for medical marijuana - that was legal
SUBMITTED BY ERICI worked as a deputy for Delta County, Michigan, for 12 years. During that time a family friend was diagnosed with cancer. I also owned a landscaping company and had a small nursery at...
View ArticleA pipe became a life sentence
In the mid 1980s I was vacationing back home; it was the week my only sister got married. When spending time with family and friends, I liked to visit my old haunts and metal detect (find treasure near...
View ArticleHardships for the Mentally Ill
SUBMITTED BY MICHAELI'm 26. A few years ago my girlfriend at the time was raped by her dealer. This would have never happened if marijuana was legal. I'm also schizophrenic and attempted suicide over...
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