Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Cannabis reform has spread like wildfire over the past two decades, with recreational and medical legalization in places like Colorado and California leading the way and major cities like Philadelphia and Chicago decriminalizing minor possession while their state reps continue the country’s fruitless war on drugs. For as much progress has been done, though, police across the country are still making cannabis arrests, and judges continue to hand out jail time for possession of a plant. The latest case of absurd pot prosecutions comes from Springfield, Missouri, where a 77 year-old man was recently sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his grow op.
According to USA Today, Charles Frederick White was arrested in 2012 after undercover officers investigating a separate crime stumbled upon a skunky smell and seemingly out of place security cameras on his rural property lead to a search warrant and 1,700 cannabis plants. Now, with no distribution or trafficking charges brought and five years of court battles, the senior citizen with failing eyesight has finally sentenced, and will be in prison until he is almost 90 years old.
The discovery of more than 1,700 marijuana…
