"BUSTED BEFORE THE CUP"

 

 

 

 

Many, many small growers here are being busted every week. It has become a priority here to bust cannabis grows. At least 7 grows a week are being busted in Amsterdam. Cannabis is starting to get wiped out in Holland. If that happens not only will my landlady have money trouble, but think of all the landlords who rent to cannabis workers. Growers, grow shops, coffee shop workers, and owners. They all have landlords, who all owe the banks, and the domino effect of their new cannabis war with soon hit the banks who hold all the mortgages. When the day comes that cannabis cant pay the rent anymore, I tell you the banks here will crash, and tulips won’t be able to prop them up, and not chocolate either, not even Royal Dutch Shell will be able to save this economy without the cannabis trade thriving. The astounding thing is that the politicians here are completely oblivious to the reality of the economy here. They think that if they go along with the coalition that spreads deadly depleted uranium in Iraq, that’s all it takes to keep the Dutch society healthy. Well guess what, depleted uranium kills all who come in contact with it, for billions of years. How can a nation condone depleted uranium, and tear up small amount of cannabis plants. I will tell you how. The Netherlands has become a firm ally with G. W. Bush. All the dirty dealings that America is involved with are shared by Holland.

Now this place is starting to feel like just another state in America, where police corruption is an everyday occurrence, and cannabis injustice abounds.
As I said, I was in Spain when all this happened, and needed to be there for another 2 weeks. Soma Seeds is moving to Spain. I think the government will be more appreciative of my public relations and medicinal cannabis genetics, not to mention their economy.

I was in constant communication with my lawyer Adel van der Plas who is one of the finest attorneys I have ever met. She is the person whose legal skills helped make Ayahuasca legal here in the Netherlands, so the whole society could try it if they so wished without breaking the law.

I was ready to turn myself in voluntarily to the Amsterdam police and give my statement. I had Adel call the prosecutor and the arresting officer to set up an appointed time and place. She started to do this on September 23rd and did not get called back until October 6th. When the head officer called her back he told her that I should be there at the Prinsengracht police station at 8 am. I was there 5 minutes early. I had brought 50 grams of cannabis from the apotheek (pharmacy) that I have a doctor’s prescription for to treat the tongue cancer I have been fighting for many years. It works; it has not spread or gotten any worse as long as I consume vast quantities of medicinal cannabis. Before going in I lit up a huge spliff in front of the police station. My friend Ed Borg the photographer was there clicking pics away. Then I entered the building letting the last of my exhalation enter the foyer. I was immediately placed under arrest.
I was dressed in Hemp, pants, underwear, shirt, and jacket. My pants were not allowed because they had a drawstring, (might hang myself) and I was given a Chinese paper outfit. They placed me in a tiny one-man cell and told me they would be back to get me. I told them I needed my medicine and that through them for a loop. Here I am in the jail for cannabis, soft drugs, and the jailers themselves have to administer cannabis flowers to me while I am in police custody.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore the Netherlands, my beautiful Granddaughter was born here in Amsterdam. Great health care, good schools, very fine public transportation, and cannabis freedom like nowhere else. Take that cannabis freedom away and the whole feeling changes, it becomes cold and damp, without enough nature and not enough sunshine.

Finally they come 2 hours later to take my statement. Three officers, two men and a woman interrogate me. One of the men types at the computer and translates my English words into Dutch. The woman is a 3rd witness to what I say, and the other male officer asks the questions. I tell them cannabis is the sacrament of my religion and that I am an ordained minister of the Church of The Universe. I tell them that cannabis is my medicine of choice and that I have a doctor’s prescription for ten grams a day. I was also arrested for dried mushrooms. I had bought them all fresh from smart shops that are quite plentiful in Amsterdam. The Dutch government collects much sales tax, and income tax on mushroom sales, the Dutchies don’t mind that tax collecting stuff at all. It seems to be a scam though because if those mushrooms that you legally purchased in smart shops dry out before you consume them, you can be arrested for hard drugs in the same category as heroin and cocaine and be treated very badly.
Well I was treated as though I was using hard drugs, I was handcuffed for the first time ever in the Netherlands, behind my back and made to sit in the small back seat of a police car. In front of me was the arresting officer who was not only having a bad day; he looked like it had been bad for him for quite some time.

 

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