If medical marijuana advocates were scanning the news vomit factory feed for a story baggy with potential empathy, enough emotional juice to make even your most stone-hearted pot-hater shed a tear, they’ve found it.
69-year-old Gary Burton was just trying to do right by his old lady, according to 19ActionNews. The Chippewa Lake resident wanted to mitigate the pain his wife was fielding due to breast cancer treatment and figured marijuana might help. Since Chippewa Lake doesn’t seem to have either a head shop, alt-weekly, Craig’s List or handy courier service, he decided to grow a medicinal crop himself.
Burton’s two plants were discovered and he was popped by police. This morning, Burton was sentence to 60 days in jail, 30 days of house arrest and two years of drug testing.
This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.
Was there any follow up to this. Seems a very important matter that didn’t receive enough press imo.
I’d like to know how the couple are doing and their views on the situation. I would also like to know how he got caught if he was just growing it in his own home. The U.S. governments and local police are not doing the public any favors by arresting this man and sentencing him. Don’t you have a violent crime to go solve? Jeez!