In an "amazing" turn of events, the United States Attorney has decided to appeal my sentence.  Apparently two years of community confinement and five years of direct supervision and complete loss of liberty is not punishment enough for a major criminal like me.  My brownie making for cancer patients is apparently such a severe crime that it is unthinkable that a Judge would not take me away from my family for several years and ensure my demise even further than the PTSD and imminent bankruptcy have already done.

Forget that the prosecutor at the sentencing quoted the WRONG case for her evidence of federal superiority and that she had no idea what the actual decision of the Supreme Court's response reflected. Forget that she had no evidence of harm done by my products and offered a lame "there was concern," when questioned in depth about her allegations.  Forget she did not even bother to google my case or even medical marijuana in general to prepare for her encounter with the fate of my family. Yes. Even though she brought no evidence of harm I had caused and did not even have the courtesy to do minimal research in what can only be categorized as laziness or arrogance, the Judge was somehow wrong in sentencing me to anything less than cold hard jail time, securing my family members would suffer greatly and my children would be scarred for life. Well Mrs. Stewart, I would suggest that if you are determined to have me put in jail for 30 months for providing food-based cannabis medicines to sick and dying California citizens then do your homework before coming to court.  You could have looked it up on your Blackberry while we waited for the court to hear our case.

The fact that you and your colleagues are filing an appeal is nothing short of vindictive. Forcing me to rehash the fear and anguish I lived with every day for 11 months it disturbing. Further depleting my resources by forcing me to pay attorneys to fight this appeal is mean spirited. Dragging my name through the mud one more time for what I can only imagine to be some absurd reason is unacceptable. Your office does a disservice to the people you serve with this wasteful and unnecessary witch-hunt because you were unsatisfied with the Judge's decision.

What amazes me about this callous and cruel decision to appeal my sentencing is the resources and time being wasted to carry on this insane and immoral act. It is obvious you did not waste too much of the taxpayers money preparing for the sentencing, but lets not ask for a do-over at the taxpayers expense by forcing the 9th Circuit Court to give you a second shot at hanging me high. Judge Wilken was very fair and gave you ample opportunity to make a case against me. The sentencing was over 5 months from when i took my plea. There was ample time to get the work done. What happened? Surely you do not believe that the Judge was being an activist because she was unimpressed by your lack of knowledge about the situation at hand. Maybe it was the patient who chased you down outside f the courthouse and demanded that you quit harassing medical cannabis patients. I can understand how that would be frustrating, but that is not a reason to take your anger out on me. The Judge felt that my unique situation was worthy of downward departure and she exercised her discretion for which I am grateful. Let it go.