While multi-state cannabis corporations funded by investors around the world rake in billions of dollars, Jonathan Wall, age 27 years old faces 10 years to life in prison for conspiring to distribute cannabis.

Criminal defense attorney Jason Flores-Williams, Wall’s legal counsel, argues. “You can buy weed and donuts in Washington D.C., but 45 minutes away in Baltimore, my client is locked in a cage.  People cannot believe it.”  Yes, it would be unbelievable if the United States criminal legal system weren’t such a stunning example of inhumanity and hypocrisy.  It is heartbreaking.

Now that the venture capitalist class can turn a profit being legal drug dealers, the so-called War on Drugs can no longer be disguised as a moral battle for the soul of society—as draconian policies would have us believe. Working-class and cash poor people are still being disproportionately targeted and arrested on cannabis-related charges, and many formerly incarcerated people are prohibited from participating in the nation’s fastest growing industry .

There can be no denying that the drug war is nothing more than a systemic tool of oppression weaponized by a police state pretending to believe in fairness, equity, and justice. As Human Rights Watch found in its 2009 report, Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States , “The human as well as social, economic and political toll is as incalculable as it is unjust.”

As of September 18, 2021, 37 states and 4 territories allow for the medical use of cannabis products , while 17 states, two territories and D.C. have legalized recreational cannabis use for adults with several more on the ballots this year.  The U.S. cannabis industry is now worth an estimated $61 billion; and in 2020, the nation’s cannabis sales “hit a record $17.5 billion, a 46% increase from 2019.   Support for legal cannabis is at an all- time high of 68%. Still, even with the passage of legislation such as California’s Prop 64, the War on Drugs continues.

Why are we still expending resources prosecuting people for this plant?  In fact, prosecutors are now including in plea agreements caveats that exclude appeal rights and requests for compassionate release.  

In a joint statement regarding comprehensive cannabis reform legislation in the 117th Congress, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in part:

“As states continue to legalize marijuana, we must also enact measures that will lift up people who were unfairly targeted in the War on Drugs."

One of those people is Jonathan Wall.

“Jonathan Wall is being prosecuted for the same activity that thousands, if not millions of people, are engaged in across the country, so this is an equal protection violation under the 14th amendment,” Flores-Williams says. “It would almost be a joke, if it weren’t so heartbreaking."

Jonathan Wall will go to trial in the U.S District Court of Maryland in May 2, 2022.  This trial and Jonathan’s acquittal will make history.  Please support this movement by going to: www.freejonathanwall.com