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truedelphi

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1. I sure hope that cannabis warrior extra ordinaire Lynnette Shaw will get herself justice too!

Reply to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 07:04 PM

Dec 2014

She was one of a handful of activists who got the Prop 215 initiative written and passed here in California.

While that was happening, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno tried to strip her from her right to keep open the Fairfax Calif. medicinal marijuana dispensary. And they issued an edict banning her from ever working in any dispensary here in California. (She managed to stay on at the Fairfax club, for quite a while, due to a legal technicality.

And not only that, the government apprehended her entire Social Security earnings - she is the only American who has ever had that happen to them.

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I sure hope that cannabis warrior extra ordinaire Lynnette Shaw will get herself justice too! truedelphi Dec 2014 #1

I just saw this in GD Ruby the Liberal Dec 2014 #2

I will call and tell Lynnette. She has a couple of lawyers who still truedelphi Dec 2014 #3

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news Ruby the Liberal Dec 2014 #4

Oh no. truedelphi Dec 2014 #5