Let me show you how violence erupted at an annual cannabis event - for the first time, after 20+ years of cannabis activism in the same spot. Who brought the violence? Vancouver's police department! Cops beat and arrested 4 activists for selling cannabis, then pepper sprayed dozens, including patients and elderly. See my raw footage of the police attack on a peaceful cannabis farmers market in downtown Vancouver, July 1st 2015. This upload includes additional footage not seen elsewhere, improved audio, and better video resolution. Contains violence (not graphic), and adult language. After 2 years of costly court dates and stress, all charges against the activists were dropped in 2017. Cannabis was "legalized" in 2018, but only for the government to grow and sell. The gardeners, patients, activists, and farmers market participants seen here are still illegal. The prison time for cannabis 'offenses' has increased to 14 years under legalization. #legalizationisalie #endcannabisprohibition

A starting point for your research: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333906/20120426/ron-paul-2012-delegates-news-romney-convention.htm ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VncsYFeKMVQ

I'm going to produce more content for this channel - I have TONS of passion and motivation! Often, time and resources are lacking to do everything I'd like, but I can still do unscripted unedited short audio clips called drutterances. This video introduces the concept, then jumps right into the first episode, this time on "channel direction". Stay tuned for more drutterance episodes, on a variety of topics, and feel free to give suggestions! The link to my recent video "advancing Liberty by ending cannabis prohibition": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su8je6JVYlk ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UAkvBXMP7o

My wife MediKatie was handcuffed and taken away to jail by a dozen Vancouver PD "peace officers" this afternoon. MediKatie is 4'9" tall, weighs 95 pounds, and has a fused spine as a result of a lifetime of spinal chord cancers. She uses dabs and edible cannabis, with her specialists' blessings, to control the nonstop pain throughout her torso. For years, she's faced scorn and outright hatred for her defense of medical cannabis use. She has been evicted wrongfully, physically assaulted, slandered, and now locked up - not for harming anyone, not for disturbing the peace, but for USING A PLANT TO SAVE HER LIFE. As we do every Saturday, MediKatie and I were protesting against the coming illegalization of cannabis here in Canada. Trudeau was elected to end cannabis prohibition, but instead is bringing in a system of harsh jail terms for growing or selling cannabis outside his new "licensed producer" monopoly. This scheme, also called "legalization" as some sort of cruel joke, makes growing or selling cannabis legal only for the government and their insider friends, mainly ex-cops and ex-judges who put thousands of peaceful Canadians in prison for plants. A couple cannactivist friends of ours were supporting our protest, one putting about a gram of cannabis flower (2 small joints) on the corner of my table. The VPD suddenly arrived like a gang, threatened, bullied, demanded, lied, and even physically assaulted MediKatie and I. The tiny amount of weed on the edge of my table was their excuse for seizing everything, including some of my handmade protest signs, and then they returned for MediKatie. The reason given for arresting her was she "obstructed" their "justice" last May during an illegal search of a vehicle she was a passenger in. That bogus charge is still in the system, and so, my crippled wife is in jail, somewhere downtown, on a Saturday night. I don't know what to do now. MediKatie hasn't eaten since this morning, and she's got several very delicate health issues, both chronic and acute, that need management. I don't know what jail she was taken to. At the moment the "Prisoner Transport Vehicle" pulled away, the remaining cops looked at me and my camera again. I made a beeline for the Skytrain, got home, and edited up this video to get the word out. Next I'll try to find out where she is, and what's happening : ( Here's that link to the bogus "CannaBus raid" in May 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnKLj_arMk PLEASE do what you can to spread this message. If anyone can help us (locally) please get in touch (https://d.tube/#!/v/drutter/brztjaq2). We're activists who live the lifestyle and walk the walk, and have been quite devastated over the past few years in our losing battle with the prohibitionists. We know the risks of fighting this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShKM9i4KZE