The Last Marijuana Trial

“HOLY MOSES, WE WON!”

That is the vision we at the THC-Ministry hold in common.

It’s Fall of 2010. The night after the trial. Roger Christie is home at the THC-Ministry building, overlooking beautiful Hilo Bay.

It’s dark outside, but the Ministry lights are burning. The phone is ringing off the hook. Members of the Hawaii Cannabis Ministry have descended on the building to welcome him home — and to celebrate freedom for all the other brothers and sisters of the Ministry who were arrested and prosecuted by a few self-interested employees of the Federal Government.

This is Hawai`i calling: It’s a night for celebration in America.

The Jig is Up.

The Drug War is Ending.

You can feel their walls crumbling. It’s on the faces of the disappointed Federal Prosecutors. United States Attorney for Hawai`i, Florence Nakakuni, looked sick as she answered a dull question from the long-faced AP reporter. Her faith in Assistant US Attorney Michael Kawahara has been shaken — but she doesn’t hold him completely responsible for the disaster. She didn’t ask for this job. That blame belongs to the brain trust at the DEA.

It was the DEA who made the decision to arrest Christie and the other 13 members of the Ministry. What knuckleheads. Now Hawaiian citizens have a Federal right to smoke pot.

Oh. My. God. What. Have. They. Done.

And now, California is about to pass Proposition 19, legalizing, taxing, and regulating Marijuana for the first time since World War Two.

A plant is free at last.

Drug lords in Mexico are groaning tonight, because a U.S. Federal judge has freed Roger Christie in a case that

sets a new legal precedent: Cannabis use and distribution is now protected under TheReligious Freedom

Restoration Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, and the Equal Protection Clause and the First

Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Holy Moses, We Won!