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TagsNational Guard helicopter spotted pot plants behind Somerset County home
A Franklin (Somerset) man was sentenced to state prison Friday on charges of manufacturing marijuana and possessing psychedelic mushrooms.
John Ray Wilson, 37, was sentenced to five years by state Superior Court Judge Robert B. Reed in Somerville. A Somerset County jury convicted Wilson at trial on Dec. 17 of second-degree manufacturing of marijuana and third-degree possession of psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms.
Reed sentenced Wilson to five years on the manufacturing charge and three years on the possession charge, with the sentences to be served concurrently.
On Aug. 18, 2008, a National Guard pilot flying a helicopter over a residential area of Franklin spotted marijuana growing behind a home and alerted the State Police. On that day, members of the State Police marijuana eradication squad located the plants behind 408 Skillmans Lane, where Wilson lived.
State Police detectives obtained Wilson's consent to search the grounds and home. They found 17 marijuana plants, some as tall as 6 feet, growing behind the house. Inside the house, they found a small quantity of psilocybin mushrooms. Wilson was arrested and later released on bail.
Wilson was acquitted of a first-degree charge of maintaining or operating a marijuana production facility.
The state Division of Criminal Justice obtained a state grand jury indictment charging Wilson on Sept. 4, 2008. Deputy Attorney General Russell J. Curley and Deputy Attorney General Daniel Bornstein conducted the prosecution. The investigation was led for the State Police Det. Matt Mancil and Sgt. 1st Class William Peacock.
— TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and an evil prohibition. Canadian Marc Emery is being extradited to prison for helping American farmers reduce U. S. demand for Mexican pot.
The CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) reincarnates Al Capone, endangers homeland security, and throws good money after bad. Fiscal policy burns tax dollars to root out the number-one cash crop in the land, instead of taxing sales. Society rejected the plague of prohibition, but it mutated. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment.
Nixon passed the CSA on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies, but he underestimated Schafer’s integrity. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use. Former U.K. chief drugs advisor Prof. Nutt was sacked for revealing that non-smoked cannabis intake is scientifically healthy.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership or an act of Congress to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. God’s children’s free exercise of religious liberty may include entheogen sacraments to mediate communion with their maker.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.
Common-law holds that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration. Liberty is prerequisite for tracking drug-use intentions and outcomes.
What's wrong here? Are we blind? Doe's anybody see problem here?
What's going on with our legal system? What's next? Who's safe? Could it be me or you? Was it Ben Franklin that said " Any society that would sacrafice a little liberty for a little security deserves neither and will lose both." ???
Then the drunk cops and National guard plane has to go terroize this poor medical marijuana patient, and now have thrown this harmless medical marijuana patient in prison for 5 years. This is COMPLETELY WRONG. The cops, DAs, judges, and everyone else in american can go out and get messed up on the drug ALCOHOL (ethanol) and tobacco, both of which are far more addictive, but somebody growing a plant to relieve this pain, has to go to prison for a long time, while all the hypocrits that put him there can live their drunk life, while this poor medical marijuana patient that was only trying to relive his pain, has to sit in prison for years. THIS IS WRONG. THIS NEEDS TO BE OVER TURNED. HANG IN THERE JAY. THERE IS MUCH SUPPORT FOR YOU. THIS IS WRONG!!!!!!
PLEASE ANYONE WHO SEES THIS ..please support JAY....he is not a crim