I was charged with buying and selling cannabis seeds - internationally - and that's not a crime in the UK - So they could not extradite me stateside for it - and eventually have realized that it is futile trying to bring this Brit to what they call American Justice -
If you ever had arrived here, no doubt there would have been a guy in a DEA jacket for the front page perp walk photo like they did El Chapo, but the point wasn't bringing anyone here, it was making things shitty while still serving as a warning to others, even though everyone knew this outcome was inevitable.
All long time members know your details you know - yes it was a surprise you made it to the UK, but it was inevitable after a few years of being under British control, because there is precedent for not doing such extraditions.
My public defender in the USA sat down at some legal rotary club dinner a while back with the prosecutor in my case - and managed to have a chat with him - and he said that it was the agents who worked my case that didn't want to give it up and dismiss it - But I guess thats been sorted out now - after all its the prosecutors choice whether to prosecute or dismiss - not the agents -
Still - I don't think its right that the USA can cause someone so much trouble - then just say 'Oh - never mind - we dropped the charges' - After years of detention, stress, much cost and loss of family life -
*Thanks Bud - I did visit Hot Springs and Malvern once-upon-a-time - lovely area.
Gypsy, your story is one of the great legendary one's in the history of cannabis legaliazaiton.
Thank You........ ....for fighting the good fight !!!
RMS
- yeah - best let bye-gone's be by-gone's - and carry on - I have a family to consider - and it does look like the USA is slowly coming round to the full acceptance and legality of cannabis anyway -
3 years after the feds made this now defunct case against me - in 2016 - Maine legalized cannabis - I guess that helped -