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- **Posted:** 2024-05-28T20:38:48.000+00:00
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Link in Bio. 🪴✊️ Spotlight: farmerandthefelon! Legal MJ businesses exist today only because longtime advocates and cultivators have paved the way. Co-founded by longtime cultivators Dennis Hunter and Ned Fussell under the cannacraftbrands umbrella, it has two primary missions: First, to preserve cann history and collaborate with legacy cultivators who have spent decades growing the plant long before legalization became a reality, and second, to work with lastprisonerproject (LPP) to offer support to individuals who are still suffering in prison for nonviolent canna-convictions. With these goals in mind, Farmer and the Felon sets out to keep the stories and sacrifices of people in the industry alive.

For Hunter — who lived in and grew in the Emerald Triangle starting in the early 90's — this is personal. After Prop. 215 was passed in Cali in 1996, Hunter’s op continued to grow, eventually attracting the attention of the DEA. In 1998, his operation was raided, which forced him and his family to hide for 4.5 years—complete with alternate identities. However, the DEA caught up with him, and he went to prison for six and a half years, a crushing amount of time to be away from family..

Read about his story from there; how #FarmerandtheFelon got started, their cultivation operation / legacy grower collabs, offerings, and of course - how their efforts keep MJ prisoners in the spotlight and help fund ongoing support efforts with LPP.

“There’s still like 40,000 people in prison for nonviolent ca**abis offenses,” Hunter said. “As much as we think it’s completely legal, there are still people away from their families for growing ca**abis, and really to remind people of that. Because there’s still work to be done.”
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Full story on HighTimes.com | By Ashley Kern
📸: Phil Novak

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