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Freedom Grow Blog
These are voices from the cannabis prisoners and beyond. We sometimes get so caught up in the trenches of activism that we tend to forget to let others know what the people we represent actually endure behind the fence.
This series of blogs are from cannabis prisoners, their families and Freedom Grow volunteers. We always seek to do more for individuals who’ve been left behind in “the war on drugs”, such as bringing you their ‘voices from behind bars’.
There are over 40,000 cannabis prisoners that don’t deserve to be incarcerated for a plant that’s now legal in thirty-seven states and counting.
Muzammil Ali
#19513-030
“My name is Ali and I am an innocent cannabis prisoner. I am from Des Moines, IA and I have been serving a 20-year sentence for a wrongful conviction of the count of Conspiracy to Distributer THC – ‘vape pen’…”
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Daniel Muessig
FCI Fort Dix 61770-509
“I write to you from a place where people die of diseases you would have believed to have been treated in your great-grandparent’s time….”
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Harold Klumpp
Welcome World!
Hello my name is Harold Klumpp and I have been a P.O.W. in the Federal Prison System(B.O.P) for over 21 years.
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Juan Antonio Cavasos
Welcome World!
Hello! My name is Juan Antonio Cavasos, and I welcome you into my world of art, and blogs. Currently, I am in prison for conspiracy to possess marijuana. The actual date of the apprehension began in 2008.
I am 42 years old, and a proud native of Texas. Art has been a means to place my focus on what I had once known was my passion since 6 years old. This was later recognized and influenced by my Art teacher. Setting my mind to perfect my techniques only awakened my desire to practice and achieve the use of paints. With this same tattooing as well. All were completed successfully and still learning.
What was really learned above all, was that I had the capacity to achieve whatever I set my mind to. Mostly, that one essential necessity: self-love and respect! The pay-off most valuable I have gotten is those times I see potential students actually take off on their own to create their art. Now I have set myself on learning to become more social, after 16 years of bitterness, as well as new traits that will contribute to helping society.
Edwin Rubis
Edwin has served over x24 years in Federal Prison for a non-violent Marijuana crime. He is a victim of the perpetual “war-on-drugs”. Throughout his incarceration, his family has sought numerous ways to obtain his freedom. They’ve all proven fruitless, due to a lack of funds to hire legal counsel, newspaper ads to promote public awareness, and to generate bi-partisan political support.
Edwin is a fully rehabilitated individual. While imprisoned, he has earned x3 college degrees, which include a Master’s Degree in Counseling, and he’s now working on his Doctorate [read Edwin’s story on Freedomgrow.org].
Edwin has a large family, who miss him very much. You can help bring Edwin home by your financial donation. Any amount you give will be greatly appreciated. Help us right this wrong in the name of Justice!
Thank-you and God-Bless YOU!
You can contact Edwin directly from his Facebook page: Edwin W Rubis Prison Ministries, where you will find his contact text # (prison won’t allow direct phone calls-in, but he can receive text), and the prison address at Talladega Federal Correctional Institution. Edwin loves to interact with supporters, so please contact him! Also, to gain a better understanding of his plight, please visit Change.org: Pres Joe Biden PLEASE FREE Edwin Rubis–40 YEARS FOR A MARIJUANA CRIME IS NOT JUSTICE.
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Enis Djurkovic
I got sentenced to 30 years for a non-violent marijuana charge. I was smuggling marijuana out of Canada to new york…30 years. insane in the membrane if u ask me lol! Murderers get out quicker. no joke. I personally know a few people who have committed murders and they both got less than 10 years in prison for manslaughter.. Not fair, but I sold this plant and they give me 30 years. I was only 30 years old when I got sentenced.
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Justin Reimche
I’m currently in federal prison for conspiracy to Traffic Marijuana. I was sentenced to 120 months (10 years). I’ve been waiting on my release from federal prison. I really believed when President Biden was elected he would free us all but that has not been the case. I’m praying everyday for my release.
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Rafael Hernandez-Carrillo
I was sentences on November 3, 2010 to imprisonment for LIFE without parole. I was 28 years of age when the offense was committed. I began serving this sentence of imprisonment on February 27, 2008. I appealed my case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Jonathan Wall
My name is Jonathan Wall, I am twenty-six years old and a federal prisoner incarcerated for the last thirteen months at the Chesapeake Detention Facility, a maximum security lockup located in Baltimore, Maryland that is commonly referred to as “CDX” as well as the “super-max”. Presently, I am awaiting trial in federal court and if convicted I stand to receive a prison sentence of anywhere from the mandatory minimum of ten years up to life imprisonment, all of it without any possibility of parole. What am I here for? Well I did not kill anyone or steal anything. Nobody was kidnapped, nor did I rape anybody or commit any sort of sexual assault, although somehow if I had I would be subject to significantly less prison time according to the federal sentencing guidelines. No, the alleged offense that the federal government is squandering the taxpayer’s money, your money, on housing and prosecuting me is for conspiring to distribute cannabis.
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Fernando Miguel Nunez
I am serving a 365 month sentence for distribution of marijuana. I am a non-violent offender serving an excessive sentence due to enhancements found by my sentencing judge- enhancements premised on the testimony of a confidential informant (*information that forensic testing provided to be false).
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Kristin Flor
In 2013 I became a public speaker about the subject of cannabis prisoners and an active membership with the Human Solution. My membership quickly led to board members, vice president, and executive director. After leaving The Human Solution in 2015, I co-founded Voices of the Cannabis War (VOW). VOW was not a 501c3, so our focus was writing articles in various magazines about the prisoners, creating images about them, attending events and hosting VOW radio with Eugene Fischer who served 35 years of a LIFE sentence for cannabis. In 2019, I started working seriously deep with Freedom Grow and decided this is where I want to put all attention!
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Tom Sonoma
In the first decade of this new millennium, I was incarcerated for four and a half years. My crime was “maintaining a place for the manufacturing of marijuana”. This experience gave me a deeper understanding than most of the inner workings of the federal justice system. Indictment, court proceedings, prison life, halfway houses, and probation all present their own nuances and problems. Once I could put all these difficulties behind me, I felt compelled to do something for those who were less fortunate than I. When I was dealing with the courts, I learned that a life sentence could be a consequence for even marijuana offenses, and I was shocked. Even more shocking was discovering that dozens of regular, normal people had been condemned to this dark fate. Drawing from my own experiences, I knew that these people needed help in the worst way.
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