Faray Matías, Argentine activist for the rights of users marijuana, jailed since April 14 to cultivate their own plants.
Behind the reception of the Station No. 2 Villa Tesei is a passage of no more than a meter wide. Down the hall, there is a gate that remains closed. Behind the gate there is a corridor that provides access to the cells. In each cell, among a hundred cockroaches, four people live. In the midst of one of these groups, in a corner, is Matthias, who was arrested ten days ago for planting marijuana in her balcony. Expect to see her lawyer enter a dozen bills and several papers to explain how to deal with the difficult task of dealing with the intricacies of a State can convict to 15 years in prison. From behind bars, so expect a job already at risk and a mother who is terminally ill and who Matías help financially. Matthias
Faraj is a 32 year old man that not only cultivates marijuana smoke in the privacy of your home once again to the shoe store has over ten years ago. Matt is also a public person. Two years ago appeared Elba hugged his mother, in the pages of the magazine THC (No. 14) where he now writes. There was the hard work it took to convince her that smoking marijuana was not a criminal and to avoid using a substance of unknown origin, cultivation was output healthier and politically more appropriate to combat the drug trade by both parents and children are opposed. Beyond
peace conquered, Mathias decided he had to do more to end the secrecy to which he and convicted more than a million and a half of marijuana users in Argentina. He began his neighborhood, where he founded the Association of cannabicultor West (ACO), a group of marijuana users and growers met with the same goal: to share information, protection of state persecution and struggle to not send them more prisoners to plant marijuana.
In May Last year, form part of the organization of the March for decriminalization in Buenos Aires, which would give a forceful speech against the over eight thousand protesters gathered at the doors of Congress. "Grown, not to buy more! Let's feed the drug! "Harangued from the platform, and they complained to lawmakers the urgent decriminalization of drug possession and cultivation, so that the state struggle to focus on curbing drug trafficking and not handcuff users.
few months ago, the social recognition of Matthias took him to the television program Víctor Hugo Morales. This time he explained again how and why marijuana grown, gently opening the door of his home and his culture to a mass audience, doors that Argentina chose to kick Justice without deigning to touch the bell. Just minutes after 19 pm last Thursday, April 14, the Buenos Aires police burst into the apartment that Matt shared with his girlfriend in the neighborhood of Villa Tesei, with a search warrant in which he was accused of committing the crime "seeding, cultivation and seed stores to produce drugs," punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison. Enough with an anonymous tip from a neighbor and a couple of photos police took of the plants he had in his balcony.
The result of the operation was the seizure of 25 marijuana plants and seedlings and just over a kilo of dried buds ready to become smoke, enough to take him arrested for the crime charged against him. And as they were, they took a 22-caliber revolver that Matthias did not register in the Renar and which now also faces a charge of "simple possession of civilian weapon." The next day, the Security Ministry Buenos Aires, by Ricardo Casal, issued a statement to all editors of newspapers announcing that Matt grew marijuana in his apartment "for later sale, although they had not found any evidence of trade in the raid, which the prosecutors corroborated confirm when the cover as simple "crop."
That afternoon, while testifying, Mathias repeated the same thing had already told them to readers, viewers and demonstrators. Unable to look at him, prosecutors had to listen to almost two hours in which Matthew told them how much he likes smoking Faso, the medicinal benefits of marijuana and, above all, which he cultivated, something that lets stop feeding the black market but the current Drug Act, to defend the interests of those who traffic, prohibited. But to no avail. Minutes before the hearing statement, as often happens in the courts of Buenos Aires, and had ordered their arrest, so he was again handcuffed and sent back to prison.
Matthias defense immediately filed a request for release, but the judge Guarantee Mónica López Morón Osornio, the same as in 2002 gave the pedophile priest Julio César Grassi meet the benefit of preventive detention in his home, he understood that as the crime he is accused of "sowing or growing" marijuana plants has a minimum sentence of 4 years in prison, Matthias had to be formally arrested. Despite their public statements and court still must prove "unequivocally" that is a user so they can change the cover to "cultivation for personal consumption." A few hours ago, Judge Lopez Osornio just the preventive detention Matthias, in the next few hours will be transferred to a prison in Buenos Aires.
Matthew's case is just one of thousands that occur annually in our country. Soon they should matter to some people that the decriminalization of drug possession has evolved from a request to a debt of democracy and those who oppose them end up being complicit in drug trafficking. Regardless of this intolerance, has to know what the current drug law is at stake in these cases is as essential as human rights. Matias and release.
More on the case of Matthias
www.liberenamatiasya.blogspot.com Matias
Speech at the 2010 Marijuana March
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azel7AbbEcQ
Source: Revista THC
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