My wife @MediKatie was handcuffed and taken away to jail by a dozen Vancouver PD "peace officers" today. MediKatie is 4'9" tall, weighs 95 pounds, and has a fused spine as a result of a lifetime of spinal chord cancers. She uses dabs and edible cannabis, with her specialists' blessings, to control the nonstop pain throughout her torso. For years, she's faced scorn and outright hatred for her defense of medical cannabis use. She has been evicted wrongfully, physically assaulted, slandered, and now locked up - not for harming anyone, not for disturbing the peace, but for USING A PLANT TO SAVE HER LIFE.
Sat. March 3 2018 at Vancouver Cannabis Farmers Market protest:
As we do every Saturday, MediKatie and I were protesting against the coming illegalization of cannabis here in Canada. Trudeau was elected to end cannabis prohibition, but instead is bringing in a system of harsh jail terms for growing or selling cannabis outside his new "licensed producer" monopoly. This scheme, also called "legalization" as some sort of cruel joke, makes growing or selling cannabis legal only for the government and their insider friends, mainly ex-cops and ex-judges who put thousands of peaceful Canadians in prison for plants.
A couple cannactivist friends of ours were supporting our protest, one putting about a gram of cannabis flower (2 small joints) on the corner of my table. The VPD suddenly arrived like a gang, threatened, bullied, demanded, lied, and even physically assaulted MediKatie and I. The tiny amount of weed on the edge of my table was their excuse for seizing everything, including some of my handmade protest signs, and then they returned for MediKatie. The reason given for arresting her was she "obstructed" their "justice" last May during an illegal search of a vehicle she was a passenger in. That bogus charge is still in the system, and so, my crippled wife is in jail, somewhere downtown, on a Saturday night.
Now what?
I don't know. MediKatie hasn't eaten since this morning, and she's got several very delicate health issues, both chronic and acute, that need management. I don't know what jail she was taken to. At the moment the "Prisoner Transport Vehicle" pulled away, the remaining cops looked at me and my camera again. I made a beeline for the Skytrain, got home, and edited up this video to get the word out. Next I'll try to find out where she is, and what's happening : (
Here is that bogus May 2017 "CannaBus raid" on YT.
PLEASE do what you can to spread this message, via Steemit and other platforms if you're able. If anyone can help us (locally) please get in touch. We're activists who live the lifestyle and walk the walk, and have been quite devastated over the past few years in our losing battle with the prohibitionists. We know the risks of fighting this fight, and aren't asking for pity, just help shedding light on this dark event.
Thanks for your understanding and support.
FREE MEDIKATIE!!
(DTube videos stop playing a few weeks after upload, leaving just the thumbnail behind. Luckily this video is also up on YouTube.)
