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Edwin Rubis: "My 4/20 Behind Bars" featured in @ganjapreneur #420ForFreedom

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"April 20 is making its rounds again this year. But it isn’t a celebration for me. Far from it. I will again spend it locked in a ten-by-twelve prison cell, going through the motions of another long and tedious day, feeling the deprivation of my freedom." #FreeEdwinRubis
If you would like to support Edwin Rubis in his campaign for freedom, you can do so via this fundraiser: fundrazr.com/829bk6?ref=ab_…

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Apr 18
Before you 🍃💨, here are 4 things you can do on 4/20 to honor cannabis prisoners around the country. 🧵 #420ForFreedom

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Go to pardonstoprogress.com and write a letter to your state officials urging them to go beyond pardons and use their clemency power to actually effectuate releases. (Don't worry, we make it really simple.)
Write a letter to a cannabis prisoner to let them know they're not alone and you're out here fighting for them: lastprisonerproject.org/letter-writing…
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TAKE ACTION: Rudi Gammo is serving 5.5 years in prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense in Michigan. Every day that goes by is another day he is denied justice. Read his story and join us as we call on @GovWhitmer to bring him home. #FreeRudiGammo 🧵 Photo of Rudi Gammo in pris...
In 2018, Rudi Gammo was arrested and sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for allowing the caregivers who supplied his city-sanctioned medical dispensary with medical marijuana to cultivate the plant on his property.
That same year, Michigan residents voted to legalize adult-use marijuana and in 2019, @GovWhitmer promised to release and expunge anyone with cannabis-related offenses. But it's going on 4 years since then and Rudi is still incarcerated.
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May 28, 2021
THREAD: Earlier today Congress reintroduced the MORE Act, the most comprehensive marijuana reform bill in U.S. history. If signed into law, the legislation would remove cannabis from the CSA & eliminate federal penalties for manufacturing, distributing or possessing marijuana.⁣
The MORE Act would also create expungement & sentencing review processes for those with federal cannabis convictions, prohibit the denial of federal benefits due to marijuana-related conduct or charges, & use #cannabis tax revenues to fund community reinvestment programs.⁣

It is critically important that any piece of federal legalization legislation prioritizes ⁣social justice and repairing the harms of prohibition.
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Apr 26, 2021
🧵 A pilot program run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons is outsourcing the prison mail management process to the for-profit company Smart Communications.⁣ Last Prisoner Project graph...
This program first sees Smart Communications convert greeting cards, letters, & other mail sent to incarcerated people into digital scans. The original correspondence, often lovingly crafted by friends and family, is then destroyed.⁣
This new program also forces incarcerated people to access their treasured correspondence as low-quality printouts, or to read their cherished letters from home via screens located in shared kiosks in public areas of the prison (or on a tablet provided by Smart Communications).
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