Read our past coverage of Chris Williams www.issuu.com/nwleaf/docs/january2013/39 The Montana Cannabis grower was arrested at the same time as Richard Flor.
After her father died, Kristin needed support, and the November Coalition, a group founded in 1997 for outreach and support of those affected by the war on drugs, reached out to help her. It helped organize a trip out to support her dad’s friend, Chris Williams, who is still in prison for his role in the operation, and connected her with other people who were in the prison reform movement. Kristin became a member of The Human Solution as well, and began raising awareness and support for Cannabis prisoners. “Nobody deserves to go to jail for a plant. I say that all the time on the radio, The Human Soluand then I add. Nobody tion needs your support and voice! deserves to die for a plant.” Learn how you can Today, Kristin is active donate to prisonin several local and nationers of the war on al groups that advocate for drugs by visiting patients and those facing prison for Cannabis offensThe-Human-Solution.org es. She is a national leader in The Human Solution, and coordinates setting up new chapters in the Pacific Northwest. “I think that my dad’s death was so unbearable and traumatic, that something so horrible has to become something we celebrate. To do that we have to get all our plant prisoners out of prison, and celebrate my father as a hero, a martyr for the cause.”
HOW TO HELP
More than 50 people are serving life sen-
tences right now for Cannabis offenses, with thousands more serving smaller but still significant and unfair offenses for Cannabis. Kristin is determined to change that. She travels to Cannabis events handing out fliers and soliciting donations to help those already on the inside. Through the Human Solution, dozens of patients are getting letters, emotional support and financial support. The money raised has a huge effect on the daily lives of prisoners. Most are in for-profit prisons with horrible conditions, coerced to work for household name brands for an average of 20 cents an hour. “Somebody like Eddy Lepp is forced to work an eight-hour day just to afford a dose of aspirin from the commissary, which runs about a dollar fifty. He has to work all day, in pain, to get a pain medication to help with it.”
Courtesy Kristin Flor
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