Court sentences 77-year-old disabled veteran to die in prison for treating illness with cannabis
Note from Erin: While this story is from 2017, it is still relevant. According to Wikipedia, “In 2011, Brooker was arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana after police visiting his home in Cottonwood for unrelated reasons noticed he was growing marijuana behind his house. In October 2014, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole by a judge in Houston County, Alabama. He was sentenced under Alabama’s mandatory minimum laws, which dictate that someone caught possessing more than 2.2 pounds of a drug, and who had been convicted of certain felonies before that, must be sentenced to life in...
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