(MarijuanaUpdate.info) Medical marijuana patient Will Foster is a free man. According to a phone call I just received from his partner, Susan Mueller, Foster was released on parole and walked out of prison in Oklahoma today.
As you who have followed the Will Foster saga know, he became a poster boy for drug war injustice when he was sentenced to a mind-blowing 93 years in prison in Oklahoma back in the 1990s for growing a closet-full of medical marijuana. Thanks in part to the efforts of Stopthedrugwar.org (then known as DRCNet), Foster eventually got his sentence cut to a mere 20 years–for growing plants!–and was eventually paroled to the care of Guru of Ganja Ed Rosenthal in California, who had taken up his case.
Last year, Foster was raided and charged with an illegal marijuana grow in California, although his grow was perfectly legal under the state’s medical marijuana law. He spent a year in jail in Sonoma County before prosecutors dropped all charges, but by then, Oklahoma parole authorities demanded he return to the state to finish his sentence. Foster dropped his fight against extradition and returned in September.
A good sign occurred a few weeks ago, when the parole board decided he had not violated his parole and should be released. This week, Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry must have agreed–he had the final say in the matter.
Right now, Foster is making his way to parole offices in Oklahoma City to sign the paperwork. He should be back with his loved ones in California in a matter of days.
Thanks to everyone who agitated for his release. Every once in awhile, we win one.
Happy Thanksgiving, Will Foster! When Oklahoma starts making sensible decisions about medical marijuana patients, you know we’re winning.
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This is beautiful. Great news. I second everything Winder just said.
Thank you,
Oklahoma, for giving up the farcical unjust incarceration of a man who had done nothing wrong. We were about to discede* you from the Union.
What a great Thanksgiving present for Will and his family. And the will of the people.
*Okay, I made up that word, but is there a better one?