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Reefer Refugees (AlterNet)
Quote:To shirts at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), she’s a dangerous criminal on the run from justice, a big-time narcotics dealer who should be punished more severely than rapists and murderers. To her friends and supporters, she’s a symbol of the drug war run amok, a political victim of the U.S. government’s vendetta against medical marijuana.Her name is Renee Boje (pronounced Boz-shay) and she’s an international fugitive who is wanted in the United States where she faces a mandatory- minimum of 10 years in jail for allegedly watering pot plants at the Los Angeles home of an ailing friend who had a state license to grow and consume cannabis.
Boje is one of several Americans who have requested political asylum in Canada, claiming they face persecution by the U.S. government because of their use and advocacy of medicinal hemp. Boje, 35, notes that Canada has a long history of welcoming American refugees — from Sitting Bull’s Lakota Indians and runaway slaves in the 19th century to the Vietnam-era draft resisters who came to Canada to avoid military service.
“My deepest hope is that Canada will again open its heart and help American citizens who are being abused by their own government because of their association with a healing herb,” says Boje.
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