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TheMan13

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Disabled Iraq War Veteran Facing Life in Prison for Less than 1 Ounce of Marijuana



Geronimo, OK — After serving three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Kristoffer Lewandowski was medically and honorably discharged from the Marine Corps.

He is now a 100% disabled veteran because of the severity of his PTSD. Since he has gotten out, the VA had him taking up to 13 pills a day to treat his PTSD. The pharmaceutical treatment was killing him.

Early clinical research shows that medical marijuana is highly effective for treating PTSD, and it does not have the dangerous side effects of SSRIs.

After realizing that the meds were killing his liver, Lewandowski decided that it would be a good idea try marijuana as a treatment. He began growing 6 plants for his personal use.

In June of 2014, Lewandowski had a PTSD episode. His wife grabbed the kids and took them to the neighbors house where she called the police to get her husband some help.

However, as is the case in so many countless other incidents, police did anything but help.

After police showed up, they searched the Lewandowski’s home and found 6 tiny marijuana plants. Police then weighed all of the plant matter together and it did not total to a single ounce. However, because of Oklahoma’s draconian laws against growing a plant, Lewandowski was charged with felony marijuana cultivation.

Felony marijuana cultivation in Oklahoma carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

According to Whitney Lewandowski, Kristoffer’s wife, the police also pulled up their tomato plants and included them in the photo for the media.

[Police] made it look like he had this huge grow [operation] going,” Whitney said in an interview with Truth in Media.

But that was not the worst of their problems. Police then cuffed Whitney and threw her in the back of a police cruiser and told her their children were being taken by Child Protective Services. They were charging her with a felony too.

In order to make it look like a legitimate arrest, police told Whitney that if she pressed assault charges against her husband, they would not charge her and she could keep their children. She obviously opted to stay out of prison and to not have her children kidnapped by the state.

According to Truth in Media:

Whitney Lewandowski said that the domestic violence charge does not reflect the reality of her husband’s behavior, “They’re trying to use me as a victim and to make it look worse on his case. My husband has absolutely never laid his hands on me ever. He is not an abusive man, ever… quite the opposite. He is extremely doting.

The Lewandowski’s raised enough funds to pay the bondsman and the family then moved, with the approval of the Oklahoma DA, to California, so Kristoffer could get the medicinal marijuana he needed, “legally.”

However, while he was in the care of a Veterans Administration psychiatric hospital, Lewandowski inadvertently missed a court date. With guns drawn, and in front of all the children at his child’s daycare, undercover cops swarmed Lewandowski in a dramatic raid.

He currently remains in police custody in California and is awaiting extradition to Oklahoma.

This man’s life has been turned upside down. He has been taken from his family, unable to see his children, and is facing the idea of spending the rest of his life behind bars — he harmed no one.

The Lewandowskis are in dire need of proper legal defense. They have setup a GoFundMe Campaign here. Please share this article so this man’s life is not taken by the very country he gave his life to defend.


http://thefreethoughtproject.com/disabled-iraq-war-veteran-facing-life-prison-1-ounce-marijuana/
 

FrostyPelican

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That's what happens when you involve the cops in your life. I want to feel sorry but if you're doing something illegal and in a position where someone will call the cops to the location where said illegal activity is taking place you're just asking for it.

Wasn't there so I can't be too judgmental but this story is just another one that should have never been but someone just had to call the cops.
 

Skylor

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That's what happens when you involve the cops in your life. I want to feel sorry but if you're doing something illegal and in a position where someone will call the cops to the location where said illegal activity is taking place you're just asking for it.

Wasn't there so I can't be too judgmental but this story is just another one that should have never been but someone just had to call the cops.

YEP......we need the cops yet U never ever caII the cops...then they get piss when U ignore them...shit, why chat with them, others have an they went bye-bye "forever",,,,,shootings happen, not my problem, if me not hit, if I ive in the getto, I would see nothing, hear nothing......cops wanna bust everybody they can once in a whiIe--guilty or not-- why chance it ?
 
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TheMan13

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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."


"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results
from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

What would Jefferson think/say of our current U.S. Department of Justice and their criminal "laws" like the Controlled Substance Act? More specifically as it relates to the CSA's original theoretical "goal" verses the empirical results of the past half century of enforcement has had upon our society today?
 
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jonnynobody

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I feel sorry for anybody that has to live in Oklahoma. It's a very scary place to be if you're a marijuana consumer, similar to Louisiana and most of the southern US.

While I have sympathy for this family's situation, the mother and father invited this situation upon themselves when they planted those seeds in a location that fell under Oklahoma's jurisdiction. The punishment for growing is severe, unfair, and devastating to any individual (or family) that gets a cultivation charge pinned on them in that state. I had to leave my home state of Missouri for the same reason this family should have left Oklahoma before they started growing.

And the fact that they had the money to move to California after the cultivation charge only irritates me that much more as this situation appears to have easily been avoided and now their children are caught up in this madness because mom and dad made a stupid fucking decision that jeopardized the safety of their home and children.

If you have kids in the house and you choose to grow illegally in a backwards state like Oklahoma, you're not a very intelligent individual.

With all that being said, I wish for the best possible outcome in this case for the family and hopefully at some point Oklahoma will change it's ridiculous laws regarding marijuana cultivation and possession.
 

TheMan13

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Should the fact that this individual and their family were suffering from the mental infliction of PTSD or how that may affect their decision making process (aka MO) make a difference "under the law"? What if this family had made these same decisions to save a child's life and provide comfort from epileptic seizures? If we all simply ignored unjust law could that unjust law still stand (see standing sodomy laws)? Bad law should never justify medical suffering IMHO. Does MMMA and my MI patient/caregiver licensing not endanger my family and children here and now, just as my wife and I accepted/endured as soldiers?



 
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leighgal

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Picked this up on fb

So you know...Victory! Felony charges dropped against Kristoffer Lewandowski !!

Jul 15, 2015 — I have some great news to share with you all. Kris has been released from jail, all felony charges have been dropped, and the remaining charges will be transferred to veterans court.

It's thanks to the outpouring of support from people like you that this was able to happen. I'm so excited to see Kris and his family reunited without fear of prosecution.

Along with other veterans who support the use of medical marijuana, we've launched a project called Weed for Warriors. Please visit our website to learn more and to follow us on social media: http://wfwproject.org/



Thank you again for your support.

Ricardo-

http://wfwproject.org/
 
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