I was one of the 1st growers in michigan busted for growing to have the then newly adopted seizure laws apply to their case,i lost my home,cars,motorcycles,hifi equipment,motorhome,bank accounts ect,everything a life of an extremely well paid construction boss shoulda had i lost,including my 1st wife.
My original sentance was 17 to 25 years for Manufacturing a Controled Substance,with the good time system of the day that meant i was gonna do 15 years inside so they shipped me directly behind the walls of jackson prison,for those not in the know Jackson is the largest solid walled prison in the USA,before i was out of quarintine my lawyers filed all the appeals.
My lawyers ended up cutting a few deals for me,the judge went way over the sentancing guidelines on a charge that most did 2 to 5 years on,he was making me do 15 years as an example of the new war on drugs in america,the deal dropped my sentance down to 3 to 7 years of which i did 2.5 years.
In exchange for knocking 12 years off my time inside my lawyers had to agree to drop the appeals on the seizures of my belongings,i woulda been an old man when i got out so i had them agree instead of fighting.
I got out with the fuck you attitude & instantly got caught up again,right before i got popped the 1st time i was robbed at gun point & i never forgot the guys face,as chance would have it i ran into that fuker & i saw him before he saw or recognized me,i was a hot had so i beat him within an inch of his life with a tree limb,took all the money from his pockets,tore his shoes off & threw them out in the highway,then ground my boot in his mouth ,all the while hoorified onlookers were gathering,the manager of the auto parts store we were in front of got my plate & when i arrived back home the Detroit police were waiting.
Detroit pd ran my plate & my name came back a code 10 so they sent a tactical squad to pick me up,the squad was The Big 4 & anybody familiar with Detroit in the late 70's & 80's know what the deal was with Big 4,there were several squads labled Big 4 & what it was were 4 of the biggest meanest cops on the force all in a single car,they used commando take down tactics & all who were picked up by a Big 4 unit were assured a trip to the hospital,my beating from them was fierce but were wrote up as injuries sustaned durring take down,that beating was the start of life long back problems.
Since i was on paper i went straight back to the joint but not back to Jackson,since my new crime was violent they put me in MR (Michigan Reformatory) to finish out the rest of my initial sentance & await trial,anybody from Michigan who's been through the penal system will know about MR,its refered to by local leo as gladiator school,i thought Jackson was hard time but MR time was no fukin joke,back then times were different & in that prison the racial gangs ran the show not the guards,the black gangs were ruthless & would prey on weaker inmates & extort protection moneys from the weak or people who were not with anybody,i ended up joining a clique & spent the next 3 years doing stupid white power bullshit for the clique.
I ended up getting charged with Attempted Murder on the 2nd case,my lawyer dug up the old police reports where i reported being robbed & pistol whipped & in court it was discovered the guy i beat down had 2 previous armed & strong armed robbery convictions,i cut a deal to plead to assault & pay all his hospital bills ,in exchange for him going along with the plea bargin i had to agree to pay him $10,000 pain & suffering damages within 18 months of being released.
When i got out my 2nd wife held down the fort so io atleast had all my few posessions so i started over a 3rd time,i spent the next 25 years growing personal & in utter secrecy,i was so paranoid i would only keep a max of 3 grams at our home & i grew in a boiler room of a small industrial manufacturing building my best friend bought as an investment,i ended up buying the building from him but was so worried about getting knocked off we left the building in his name & paid him fake rent,all that shit to grow 4 plants at a time but better safe than a repeat seizure.
Fast foward 25 years,after spending over 6 years locked down & loosing well over $200K to seizures,fines & legal fees,plus skulking around a filthy boiler room to grow personal use my wife got Multiple Scleruosis & an extremely painfull & debelitating form of the disease at that,mj ended up being a huge benifit to her but since it was illegal & she was a school teacher she couldnt use it,instead she took opiates which left her unable to work with young children so she was forced to retire early.
Fast foward another 5 years or so & med mj in michigan becomes legal,my lawyer petioned govenor Jennifer Granholm to allow me to become a State certified caegiver for my wife,amazingly she gave me the reprieve required from the state & we set up the 1st grow that had been in our home in over 30 years.
In between all the othef shit in my life my wifes health has detoriated rapidly as well as my health due to an explosion i was in on a construction site,i was burned over 12% of my body with 3rd degree burns & the impact force trauma from being blown 30 ft shattered my spine,im very fortunate to even be able to walk at all,both my wife & myself use high dose opiates on a daily basis but fortunately mj has become legal so it allows us both to use less oxycontin,morphine sulphate & methadone than we would without mj.
Since med mj became legal in Mich i helped found one of the 1st true co-op's in the state & for the 2.5 years i was a co-owner did all i could to distribute free meds or seriously reduced meds to stage 3 & 4 cancer patients as well as 100% free meds to all RRMS patients,in my time there we gave away an average of 5lbs of meds each month.
The med law in Mich promised all in the program the ability to use "medical" useage as a defense against criminal prosecution,since so many changes to the law have been adopted that defense is no longer assured,with the guarantee of a legal medical defense all but gone ive been forced to sell my shares back to the membership,remove any & all growing equipment from any building we own & withdraw from the Mich med program,were now right back where we were 30 years ago when i lost everything,sneaking around & it fukin pisses me off.
