Marijuana Grower Potentially Faces Life in Prison

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_16036201#ixzz0z5yQOVp6

Chris Bartkowicz, the Highlands Ranch medical-marijuana grower facing federal drug charges for his basement operation, said Thursday that he was panicked and scared when agents confronted him outside his house.

In the first time he has publicly said more than a few words about his February arrest, Bartkowicz said he was reluctant to talk to the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who would eventually arrest him and hesitant about letting them search his house. But, he said, he ultimately thought he could address their concerns.

"I believed that if I explained to them that I wasn't illegal, that I was compliant with state law, that they would leave," he said.

Bartkowicz's trial is scheduled to begin in November. If convicted, he faces a potential life sentence.

[Toureg89]

in in america do you go to prison longer for a harmless plant than if you raped a little child.

[gls]

That really sucks. A lesson learned the hard way I guess. Never talk to a government agent without a lawyer and certainly never consent to a search without a warrant (which it looks like he did). This is true even if you've never done anything illegal in your life.

Hopefully if this goes to trial at least one of the jurors is willing to utilize nullification.

[amy31416]

Didn't the big O promise to end medical marijuana prosecutions?

[gls]

Didn't the big O promise to end medical marijuana prosecutions?

Yeah and a lot of extremely naïve people actually believed him. Just like they believed he was going to end the Iraq occupation, close Guantanamo Bay and repeal the Patriot Act. The federal government has assumed the authority to control what individuals put in their bodies and that is not a power it will give up willingly.

[Danke]

Didn't the big O promise to end medical marijuana prosecutions?

So that's your affectionate nickname for him...

[Seraphim]

Didn't the big O promise to end medical marijuana prosecutions?

Modern politicians make promises to gain support from the masses. They break those promises to avoid being assissinated.

Until people start realizing that most (current) politicians on both sides are INCONSEQUENTIAL, in EVERY way- there will be no hope, no change.

The politicians, like the people are part of the group with guns to their heads. Some may be dirt bags, many probably. But far less then I think we think. They are privy to the loaded gun more then you or I can probably imagine. The problem is not that most are dirt bags, it's that most are cowards. Manipulated cowards.

Only once we learn that perpetually saving the drowning babies and ignoring the source of the drowning babies only exarcerbates the problem, will we see real hope.

[bruce leeroy]

So that's your affectionate nickname for him...

LOL
I like mine better
"Hoebama"
but I call his wife "Michelle hotmomma"

[GunnyFreedom]

Thanks for easing up on medical marijuana, Zero.

[Sola_Fide]

We are living under a tyrannical, terrorist government.


Our foreign policies of war are becoming domestic.

[coastie]

LOL
I like mine better
"Hoebama"
but I call his wife "Michelle hotmomma"

Ewww, that lady is NOT attractive-at all. And her personality makes here even more unattractive.

Anyway, this $#@! sucks for him and his family. Hopefully the same people polled in Cali on Prop. 19 will actually get off there asses and vote for it, but I'm not holding my breath. I hope that it starts the ball rollin for the rest of the country, but not very many policies that pass in Cali ever pass in other states(thank god), but hopefully if it does it will start to wake people in other states up.

EDIT: Unfortunately for me, I live in the LAST state to ever do this, too many old people in Florida-and they ALL vote. We also have the worst MJ laws in the country. Over 20g= FELONY

[Anti Federalist]

That really sucks. A lesson learned the hard way I guess. Never talk to a government agent without a lawyer and certainly never consent to a search without a warrant (which it looks like he did). This is true even if you've never done anything illegal in your life.

Hopefully if this goes to trial at least one of the jurors is willing to utilize nullification.

Not bloody likely.

Required viewing:

YouTube - Dont Talk to Police

[BuddyRey]

I pray that the jury does the right thing. For goodness sake, even if you agree with the drug war, this is a woefully heavy-handed penalty.

[Bruno]

in in america do you go to prison longer for a harmless plant than if you raped a little child.

yes, or murder in many states. both are obviously far less harmful than gardening

[thx1149]

Didn't the big O promise to end medical marijuana prosecutions?

Yeah. There's still been a ton of raids since he got into office. I wonder if the number has actually gone down. Either way, he said he was going to stop targeting medical marijuana, and clearly he hasn't.