What if the kid smelled like garlic?
This is a good guy setting in jail for helping others. Wish I could be on his jury.
And of course, it's unlikely he will receive "due process," including a jury of HIS PEERS (i.e. not people who are anti-cannabis or apathetic toward the cause of freedom of self-determinism).
This is a particular on which everyone's rights are being violated. Who determines who are or aren't my peers? Me or someone else? If someone else defines who "are" my "peers," then where is my freedom of association? (including selective association, aka refraining from associating with certain people for certain reasons... e.g. people who either endorse cannabis prohibition, or just don't mind the injustice, are not my "peers.")
There is one thing we can do: decide you are indeed free to do as you please, as long as you take proper steps to avoid negatively impacting anyone else (within reason). This won't make you immune to tyranny, but it will likely lead to an increase in your quality of life, *intervention/interference notwithstanding.
They obviously don't intend to allow the due changes to occur, so while our lives still transpire, ticking away day by day, headed for an inevitable ending... you have to decide whether it's acceptable to you, to allow other people's threats to dictate which experiences you may have during your one and only life. It sucks that, because of power-tripping people, it has come to this. We didn't choose for things to be this way, and we would surely choose to change it, if there were a directly effective action we could take, but it is what it is, and it will be what it is, until it ain't, and that might be longer than we can wait. I've already waited more than enough; i'm tired of letting other people dictate my life and choosing to impose misery on me and others who do not deserve it. If i have to die from undeserved violence, imposed upon me by tyrants... then it is only because those same tyrants have obstructed the only acceptable alternative: changing their own actions, due to them being in the wrong.
They are wrong; they are in the wrong; they cannot justify their actions, no matter whose pocket judge declares whatever thing "justified." As if any judge declaring cannabis prohibition penalties and excessive violence in pursuit of issuing them, "justified," knows the first thing about either "justice" or "honor."