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Jean Marlowe is known as the Godmother of Medical Cannabis in the State of North Carolina.In this wildly entertaining interview, the feisty Marlowe gives her irreverent take on the hypocrisy of cannabis prohibition, and gives moving testimony about the damage done to medical patients caught up in the criminal justice system.
Charles Shaw
1 February 2012

The Land of the Free punishes or imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation. This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America’s criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of "out of sight, out of mind."

Jean Marlowe is known as the Godmother of Medical Cannabis in the State of North Carolina.

Afflicted her entire life with a rare auto-immune disorder, Jean has fought tirelessly since the early-1990s for the legalization of medical cannabis. Her efforts eventually won her an 18-month stint in Federal prison for importing cannabis from a lab in Switzerland to treat her illness.

In this wildly entertaining interview, the feisty Marlowe gives her irreverent take on the hypocrisy of cannabis prohibition, and gives moving testimony about the damage done to medical patients caught up in the criminal justice system.

This complete interview is #19 of 100 in The Exile Nation Project's archive, which can be found on ExileNation.org.


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