Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 20, 2008

Lester and Mary Smith of Philo, California, suffer from heart disease, emphysema, and other afflictions. Under state and county law the elderly couple is entitled to grow and use marijuana to relieve their chronic pain.

Nevertheless, on September 24 a belligerent party of Mendocino County Sheriff?s Deputies raided the Smith home. They seized seventeen plants and the couple?s combined life savings of roughly $81,000, which they kept in a vault in their house.

The couple was left with their Social Security checks and $600 they receive in rent each month from their children.

Neither Lester nor Mary has been formally charged with a crime. They won?t be able to challenge the seizure of their money in court until next March.

Thanks to the so-called war on drugs, it?s perfectly legal for a local Sheriff to rob an innocent, sick, elderly couple of everything they?ve saved.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.