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Eddy Lepp FREE after 8 Years in Prison!

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Payaso

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Eddy Lepp was released from Florence Supermax this morning, and flown first class to San Francisco by friends and supporters including Heidi Grossman.

He will be in a halfway house for a while, but able to have visitors, unlike in prison.

Here is the full story:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/07/cannabis-convict-eddy-lepp-free-after-long-prison-term/

Free after eight years of federal imprisonment, one of the nation’s most celebrated cannabis convicts is coming home to California this afternoon, released from a Colorado prison into a profoundly changed world.

Charles “Eddy” Lepp, a frail but outspoken 64-year-old Vietnam vet and ordained Rastafarian minister, was convicted in 2007 in federal court for doing something that the state now calls legal: growing marijuana.

Supporters revere him as a “Pot POW” in the war against drugs, a hero who paid dearly in the fight for rights that many now enjoy.

“He’s free!” cheered supporters, who welcomed him with hugs and cheers in a motor home outside the gates of Florence Correctional Institution. He was then served a hot breakfast of eggs, toast and a pile of fragrant bacon, washed down by a Dr Pepper soda.

Lepp arrives — flying first class, with a cane, beard and “rastacap” hat — into San Francisco International Airport this afternoon, then will be dropped off at his new home: a San Francisco-based halfway house.

“Eddy Lepp is a true marijuana martyr,” said Dale Gieringer of the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Calling him “a true believer,” Gieringer said “he never once tried to hide what he was doing. His garden was like an act of civil disobedience.”

Prosecuted during the tough-on-drugs George W. Bush administration, Lepp’s case also represents the deep — and tense — standoff between state and federal policies; one permissive, the other punitive. While a U.S. appeals court ruled in August that the federal government may not spend money prosecuting marijuana growers who comply with state laws, there are anxieties that Congress could appropriate new funds.

Proposition 64, approved by voters last November, establishes licenses for commercial growers. Licenses will be issued beginning on Jan. 1, 2018 to small- and medium-sized farms already licensed by local officials. One specific category of license, called Type 5, allows what it calls “large cultivators” with more than one-acre outdoors. But those licenses won’t be available to Jan. 1, 2023.
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Skip

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This is Great news!

Welcome back, Eddy, we missed ya!

Sad he had to spend 8 yrs imprisoned.
 
Gypsy Nirvana

Gypsy Nirvana

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Very good news, it's great to know that Eddy is finally out of the federal prison system.
Please convey my very best wishes to him, if any of you see him soon.
 
FirstTracks

FirstTracks

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Glad he's finally out. Never should have been in. Great to see that some of that good karma is finally coming his way again.
 
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noyd666

great news.
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