User:Michael Bleu Garner/sandbox

Michael Bleu Garner (born Auburn, California, 1978)  California Cannabis Grower, Collective owner, Cannabis consultant and community leader known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana use. He served as a chairman in multiple cannabis advocacy groups [1] He was arrested in Ventura county in 2010 on suspicion of possession and sales of marijuana and conspiracy. This arrest made national headlines. when asked about his thought on his arrest he was quoted saying the following [“This is what I do for a living. I don’t have a problem with this result because this is what has got to happen when you have a county this bad. This is what it has to come down to, a trial. If it doesn’t come down to a trial, how else will we get to hear what a jury thinks?”]

Garner has been active in promoting and developing policies of civil regulation for medicinal marijuana. With the passage of California's pioneering Proposition 215 in 1996, which authorizes medicinal use of marijuana, he worked with the state and local governments to implement the delivery of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis to patients with a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana.