People (some) on this board wonder why I won't shut up about DWS's atrocious record. Here's why. [View all]

[Warren DeMontague]

Stuart woman faces 10 years in prison in medical marijuana case

"I'm a patient, not a criminal," Kirouac says. "I have no criminal background whatsoever."

According to court documents, in 2014 deputies followed Kirouac home from a hydroponics store. A detective testified Thursday that there was a suspicion that Kirouac was growing marijuana.

Hearing fans and smelling a strong odor, law enforcement executed a search the next day and uncovered 20 marijuana plants growing in her home.

Michael Minardi, Kirouac's attorney, argued not only was the search illegal, but Kirouac as the right to use the marijuana.

Lets, as they say, "unpack" this for a moment. Here's a 50 year old woman with health issues in Florida, never had any problems with the law, not presenting a menace to public safety or endangering anyone or really doing ANYTHING 'questionable' beyond shopping at a hydroponics store, cops follow her home and now she's gonna go to prison for 10 years for growing her own medical marijuana.

Feel Safer? How exactly is the taxpayer served by this? The greater society?

The anti-legalization, pro-prohibition people LOVE to go on about how "oh, no one is in prison for pot" and only the dangerous baddies are in prison because it's simply LUDICROUS to imagine that in 2016 we're locking people up for weed and nothing else.

Bullshit, here you have cops who followed this woman home from the damn hydroponics store, and based upon that alone now she's a dangerous criminal worth a decade in prison. No prior offenses, no violence, nothing, plus she had a medical marijuana recommendation from the state she moved from.

And even if she didn't- 10 years for a bunch of plants? She wasn't hurting anyone, hell, there's zero evidence she was growing those plants for anyone but herself. She just moved there. What the fuck?

Which is where we get back to Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her record on marijuana reform. You can draw a direct line from DWS working with Sheldon Adelson to shoot down Florida's last attempt to legalize medical marijuana, and the fact that this woman is facing a decade in Florida prison.