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This plumber was sentenced to 12 years for growing marijuana in a legal state. How is that possible?
Outdated drug war laws and a secondary offense led to Thomas Laverty’s outrageous sentence.
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Prison-Grown Pot Profits Fight The Drug War
CANNABIS CULTURE – How many businesses use their earnings to fight the Drug War? And how many grow their cannabis in an old private prison? “There are victims of the war on drugs, and they deserve a seat at the table,” says Casey Dalton, co-owner of Oc…
Last Prisoner Project Launches Federal Clemency Campaign For People Imprisoned For Cannabis
Last Prisoner Project (LPP) has launched a new initiative to provide President Joe Biden’s Administration with a comprehensive plan to safely and efficiently grant much-needed relief to the tens of thousands of individuals convicted for federal marijua…
How Corvain Cooper went from life in prison to presidential pardon
Corvain Cooper was a non-violent cannabis prisoner until he received a presidential pardon. Learn more about his story on Leafly.
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New Partnership Makes Names Of Cannabis Prisoners Front And Center
For many, the biggest casualties of the War on Drugs have been those convicted and incarcerated for minor cannabis offenses. To address this social injustice, the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit focused on cannabis criminal justice reform, and Nugg …
He was serving a life sentence for cannabis. Then he got a phone call from Ivanka Trump
Craig Cesal is living proof of how ludicrous America’s war on drugs became.
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Multiple Non-Violent Cannabis Offenders Pardoned on Trump’s Last Day
CANNABIS CULTURE – Former President Donald Trump’s list of last-day pardons included 12 people imprisoned for non-violent cannabis offenses, some of who were under life-without-parole sentences. Last Prisoner Project Executive Director and General Cou…
Trump pardoned 12 cannabis prisoners on his way out. Here are their stories
In his final presidential act, Donald Trump pardoned 12 federal marijuana prisoners serving outrageous sentences.
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Cannabis Grower Released from Life-Sentence, Says More Prisoners Should Go Home
CANNABIS CULTURE – “I’m so blessed to be released but there are still a lot (of cannabis prisoners) that are still there,” says Andy Cox — now reunited with his mother, two children, and extended family in Florida after 13 years in federal lock-up. …