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Lilli
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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: More on Brother Lepp |
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Lepp's Marijuana Crop Seized
Posted by CN Staff on January 01, 2005 at 18:05:06 PT
By John Lindblom - Record-Bee Staff
Source: Record-Bee
Upper Lake -- Thanks to a mid-August raid on his property by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Eddie Lepp didn't grow much medical marijuana in 2004. But he sure raised a lot of cane.
Lepp's frequent claim of having the largest amount of land devoted to the cultivation of legal pot in the U.S. was blunted on Aug. 18 when DEA officers, aided by local law enforcement, seized 40 acres of plants in his field on Highway 20. The fixed amount was 37,000 plants.
Lepp, himself, was arrested and faces federal charges of possession with intentions to distribute marijuana.
Because of the disparity between California and federal law, it remains moot whether Lepp will be put away. Determination of who's right the state or the federal government could be determined by verdicts in cases testing that disparity in the next two months.
In the meantime, Lepp is not going to go away much to the chagrin of some law enforcers.
Before the summer bust, Lepp already had a $67 million law suit pending against the DEA, stemming from an earlier raid. Since the bust, Lepp's legend has grown like, well, a weed through such incidents as:
The entry into the case of Yvonne Cox, an exotic dancer from Lake County whose act includes a 22-foot, 150-pound snake. Cox put up real estate valued at $200,000 to cover Lepp's bail while awaiting trial before a federal magistrate.
His trip to Amsterdam, granted by a federal judge despite his being under federal bail. The trip was made to accept an international award as Freedom Fighter of the Year, presented by the Cannabis Cup, a global organization supporting medical marijuana.
Most recently, a request for Lepp to lend his energies and medical marijuana wisdom to assist an anti-gang organization in Los Angeles.
"We have just filed a series of motions in Eddie's behalf," Lepp's attorney, Dennis Roberts of Oakland, reported Thursday.
Several, Roberts said, challenge federal charges against Lepp on U.S. Constitutional grounds. Another motion, if granted, would allow Lepp "to take his medicine" while awaiting trial more specifically to smoke marijuana as therapy for his cancer.
Source: Lake County Record-Bee (CA)
Author: John Lindblom - Record-Bee Staff
Published: December 31, 2004
Copyright: 2004 Record-Bee
Contact: editorial@record-bee.com
Website: http://www.record-bee.com/
Related Articles & Web Site:
Eddys Medicinal Gardens
http://www.eddysmedicinalgardens.com/
Eddy Lepp Will Head To Amsterdam for Award
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19778.shtml
Lepp Indicted Monday
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19598.shtml
Marijuana Grower Could Face Life in Prison
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19368.shtml
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Thanks for posting this news, Lilli. I am praying for brother Lepp and for his court cases to prevail in his favor.  |
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I am also praying for his cause. Have we been able to help him at all?
Peace
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:38 am Post subject: Activist Lepp begins fast in protest |
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Latest update from the press...
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Activist Lepp begins fast in protest
By Staff Reports
UPPER LAKE -- Eddy Lepp, awaiting federal prosecution for growing marijuana, has reportedly begun a fast to protest the government's case against him.
Lepp, free on bail after being arrested last August by officials of the Drug Enforcement Administra-tion (DEA), was quoted in an e-mail saying that he intends to fast "until the charges are dropped and the government stops targeting me and my family.
"For me this is both a spiritual and political action," Lepp stated.
Lepp openly grew more than 30,000 marijuana plants on his 40-acre Upper Lake property before the DEA, aided by local law enforcement officials, destroyed it while placing him under arrest in mid-August.
The plants were grown at Eddy's Medicinal Gardens, the name that Lepp, who identifies himself as a Rastafarian minister, calls his property.
The e-mail regarding Lepp's plans to fast said that he had stepped down from his ministerial post to focus on his pending trial in San Francisco and to assist with a program of intervention of gangs in south central Los Angeles.
Lepp charges that his freedom of religion has been violated by the DEA's action. He has maintained that state Proposition 215, a law permitting cultivation and use of medical marijuana in California, takes constitutional precedence over the federal laws he is accused of breaking.
Additionally, he has continuously insisted that the marijuana grown on his property belonged not to him but to sick and terminally ill patients, who paid for its planting and cultivation.
Lepp's attorney Dennis Roberts, who said he was unaware of his client's fast, plans to file motions in federal court preliminary to his trial on Feb. 7.
Source: Record Bee.com
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Lilli
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Ty for the update. Ill be praying for him.
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I will also pray that this plight passes him by soon. Best wishes to him for success.
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He was ordained a minister in 1997 through the Universal Life Church. A minister of spiritual reality, he’s a man devoted wholeheartedly to one thing: proving that our federal government has no right to prevent anyone from using marijuana.
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Brightest Blessings of the gods and goddess's upon Brother Eddy Lepp.
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Amen!
My thoughts and prayers are with you Brother Eddy..
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Lake County medical pot activist jailed
Charles 'Eddy' Lepp arrested for 4th time, with 6,000 plants seized
Thursday, February 17, 2005
By Glenda Anderson
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A Lake County medical marijuana activist with a penchant for pushing legal boundaries and flaunting his crop on magazine covers, was arrested for a fourth time Wednesday.
Federal agents seized 6,000 plants and about 30 pounds of dried marijuana from Charles "Eddy" Lepp, who last year was arrested after openly growing 32,500 pot plants on his Upper Lake property along Highway 20.
The plants seized in his greenhouse Wednesday ranged from starters to adults, Lake County Narcotics Task Force Cmdr. Richard Russell said. Had all the plants been mature, the value of the confiscated pot would be more than $15 million, he said.
Lepp, who couldn't be contacted Wednesday, has insisted in the past that his plants are grown for legitimate medical users, including members of a ministry that he founded and called Eddy's Medicinal Gardens.
The loss of marijuana for medical users is unfortunate, said Dane Wilkins, executive director of the Northern California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
But he said he's not sure he can support Lepp's campaign to push the outer limits of Proposition 215, the 1996 initiative that legalized medical use of marijuana in California.
"He's definitely an activist and doing what he feels is the right thing to do and I need to support people like that," Wilkins said. "But at the same time, balance and responsibility are important too."
Lepp has long maintained what he's doing is legal.
Lepp and another man, Daniel Barnes, were arrested by federal agents on suspicion of felony cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale and taken to San Francisco for booking, Russell said. Two others were arrested on the property and taken to the county jail for refusing to identify themselves.
Lepp, who's appeared in several issues of High Times magazine and other publications dedicated to growing marijuana, has been charged three other times with marijuana-related crimes in Lake County, Russell said.
He was acquitted of a 1997 charge and never charged after being arrested in 2002.
Until Wednesday morning, Lepp was free on $200,000 bail following his August arrest, also by federal agents.
Not only did he break the law again, Lepp violated a condition of his bail by growing marijuana, said Richard Meyer, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
He said federal prosecutors plan to seek a no-bail hold on Lepp this time.
The 2004 charges against Lepp carry a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life, Meyer said.
Meyer said Wednesday he doesn't yet know how Lepp will be charged following his latest arrest, and what the potential prison sentence will be.
Lepp is scheduled to be arraigned today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
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The loss of marijuana for medical users is unfortunate, said Dane Wilkins, executive director of the Northern California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
But he said he's not sure he can support Lepp's campaign to push the outer limits of Proposition 215, the 1996 initiative that legalized medical use of marijuana in California. |
The more I get to know NORML, the less I like their way of giving interviews, somehow they never seem to "support" those who are really fighting the cause.
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| The more I get to know NORML, the less I like their way of giving interviews, somehow they never seem to "support" those who are really fighting the cause. |
I have, over time, reluctantly come to the same conclusion.
They have a tendancy to distance themselves from the very folks they're supposed to be helping.
Some of the more....paranoid...?...astute...? among us have voiced a concern that, perhaps, NORML is a shill organization that has somehow been compromised, infiltrated or otherwise morphed into a minion of the Evil Empire.
Who knows?
I know...that as expressed here many times...the NORML folks I know on a local level are earnest and energetic, although a tad "unreliable" .... mostly college kids and, hey...at that stage in life, it's your JOB to be somewhat "unreliable" ...
But...at the national level...I have no idea what's going on, at times.
Same with MPP. Their offer of a grant for Religious Defense sounded good on the surface. But, as you pointed out, Ferre: If they refused Roger and THC Ministries...how serious are they about this particular grant?
I also suspect that there's a Peter Priniciple involved, here.
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| The original principle states that in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their "level of incompetence". The principle is based on the observation that in such an organization new employees typically start in the lower ranks, but when they prove to be competent in the task to which they are assigned, they get promoted to a higher rank. This process of climbing up the hierarchical ladder can go on indefinitely, until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent. At that moment the process typically stops. |
Makes as much sense to me as any other.
I think NORML and MPP will continue to "not get" religious defense until there is such a ground-swell that they cannot ingnore it.
They will then, of course, embrace it and claim that it was their original idea. 
That's fine. It really is.
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Peron: Marijuana Battle Heats Up
Posted by CN Staff on February 17, 2005 at 08:04:32 PT
By John Lindblom - Record-Bee Staff
Source: Record-Bee
Upper Lake -- Dennis Peron, co-author of the law that made medical marijuana legal in California, said Wednesday he believes Upper Lake medical marijuana grower Eddy Lepp has put his life in jeopardy by openly combating federal and local law enforcement officials.
"They're out to get him, obviously," said Peron from his home in the East Bay when told that Lepp had been arrested for a third time early Wednesday morning during a raid by a team of federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers and Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino county officials.
Until Wednesday, Lepp was free on bail, pending his trial in federal court for charges stemming from an August 2004 raid of his Upper Lake property.
"They're going to kill him," Perron said repeatedly of Lepp. "I don't know if he wants to be a martyr, but he has set himself up as one."
Peron, who in 1996 joined in writing state Proposition 215, "The Compassionate Use Act" making marijuana (cannabis) legal in California as a treatment for illnesses ranging from cancer to migraine headaches, said he recently pulled back from the battle over legalizing marijuana.
The reason he gives is the increased intensity he says federal and local law enforcement officials have added to the fight of keeping marijuana illegal to keep their jobs.
"Let's get real, the whole war is on marijuana," he said. "It's not a war on drugs heroin and all that. Very few people use that stuff."
Peron likened the DEA's war on marijuana to Elliott Ness's Prohibition-era campaigns to eradicate illegal liquor.
"It's a worldwide global industry to wipe out marijuana, bigger than anyone can dream of," he said. "I don't think the state is involved; it's obviously the feds, because these (DEA) agents ... what do you think they make? They start out at fifty thou and go up from there.
"You are threatening somebody's livelihood. They're mad and Eddy is kind of in their face. So, they're hoping to sacrifice him at the altar of marijuana. They'll drive him to suicide, which is killing, or put him in a cell with a thug or a crazy who'll smash his head in."
Peron said he has taken a low-profile position because he feels threatened by the increased intensity over the marijuana issue.
"I got to pull back," he said. "Otherwise they're going to kill me. I'll be a warrior some other time, but you know there's no such thing as a dead warrior."
Source: Lake County Record-Bee (CA)
Author: John Lindblom - Record-Bee Staff
Published: Thursday, February 17, 2005
Copyright: 2005 Record-Bee
Contact: editorial@record-bee.com
Website: http://www.record-bee.com/
Related Articles & Web Sites:
Marijuana.org
http://www.marijuana.org/
Eddys Medicinal Gardens
http://www.eddysmedicinalgardens.com/
Lepp's Marijuana Crop Seized
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20079.shtml
Eddy Lepp Will Head To Amsterdam for Award
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19778.shtml
Marijuana Grower Could Face Life in Prison
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19368.shtml
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