Pacifist Cannabis minister Reverend Roger Christie has been held without bail at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center since July 8, 2010. He's been denied bail 7 times. His trial on federal drug trafficking charges has been set back to July 23, 2013.
Hawaii News Daily deplores Christie's incarceration without bail as a miscarriage of justice. You can learn about the case of Roger Christie and the Green 14 here.
One of the things about prohibition that people sometimes forget is that it so often truly does make drug-taking more dangerous.
Alcohol prohibition led to people going blind from government poisoned alcohol, and to dangerous alcohol stills that were both toxic and explosive. Crackdowns on diversion of safer pharmaceutical amphetimines led to dangerous meth...