Breaking News: Tony Bower (Mullaway)given twelve months jail!

[Guest 26753]

Breaking News: Tony Bower (Mullaway)given twelve months jail, maybe out in nine months with good behaviour.. An appeal would still see him in jail till June.... The Magistrate said there was no provision in the law for what he was doing and he felt obliged to give him a sentence in line with existing penalties. This is from our first reports. More details will appear online as they come to hand.

 

[aussiepurp]

what jail is he in so i can go visit him and bring him medicine

 

[Guest 26753]

I will update as I hear.

 

[aussiepurp]

sweet moose fill us in as im keen to visit him etc

 

[b00m]

Thanks for the update Moose Much Appreciated
Much Love and Good Vibes for Tony and his family

 

[noyd666]

yes good vibes tony and family, none for the judgement.

 

[Guest 26753]

An appeal was lodged, and set down for June 3rd, but Tony would remain imprisoned until that was heard.

We have just received legal advice that if we appeal to the Supreme Court for a variation of bail conditions we should be able to have him out pending appeal in about a week. Here’s hoping.

 

[Dark Helmet]

this is complete and utter bullshit.. Sending nothing but Good Vibes for Tony and his family I wish them the best. Thanx for the News Moosey

Darkie.

 

[ozzieAI]

yep utter bullshit....but it's the way the establishment deals with those who fight against it..

all the best tony

 

[Terroir]

all the best tony.

Im thinking of you.

Hold your head up high. You are an absolute hero to many many people.

 

[bushweed]

Hopefully what is ostensibly a terribly outcome, will have the effect of galvanising the cannabis legalisation movement and produce a massive amount of publicity for a humble guy who is doing nothing more than helping heal sick people...I can see a Four Corners episode arising from this travesty. Unfortunately things won't change unless a champion stands up for all of our rights. Hats off to Tony for his sacrifice and let's see what the publics response will be after a trial by media...

 

[KITCHA]

Thats sad news Moose what a joke this legal system is putting a good man like Tony a bower in prison, the irony is one day the very plant he has been jailed for might save the lives of the people who have imprisoned him. My thoughts are with him and his family, how can they do this while the nsw gov is currently reviewing its medical mj policy.

 

[Sat X RB]

Hopefully what is ostensibly a terribly outcome, will have the effect of galvanising the cannabis legalisation movement and produce a massive amount of publicity for a humble guy who is doing nothing more than helping heal sick people...I can see a Four Corners episode arising from this travesty. Unfortunately things won't change unless a champion stands up for all of our rights. Hats off to Tony for his sacrifice and let's see what the publics response will be after a trial by media...

dull angry feeling here.

 

[x SLAYER x]

fer fack's sakes

fer fack's sakes

Hopefully this is the very last time he will have to deal with this bullshit. Please pass on our best wishes to Tony & his family. Thanks Moose.

 

[Guest 26753]

I will pass all the well wishes on to Tony!

 

[Guest 26753]

Medicine man jailed

Medicine man jailed

Medicine man jailed

Published On: Wed, Apr 24th, 2013

Campaigners for the use of medicinal cannabis are outraged over a one year jail sentence given to a prominent north coast grower of the herb when he appeared in Kempsey Court yesterday.

Supporters of Tony Bower, 56, who is being held in custody despite lodging an appeal against the sentence, which carries a nine month non-parole period, say they will continue his work dispensing medicinal cannabis to cancer sufferers and others with terminal or debilitating illnesses.

Mr Bower was charged after a police raid on his Mullaway property last year, which netted around 200 hemp plants that he had earmarked for production of medical tincture to distribute, free, to sufferers.

His partner Julie told Echonetdaily that she and others attending the court in solidarity were shocked he was not given bail after magistrate Wayne Evans said Mr Bower was not remorseful and would continue to give away the tincture.

An appeal date has been set down for June 3.

Possession, growing and distribution of cannabis is illegal in NSW but a NSW Upper House inquiry is currently considering legalising the drug for medicinal use.

Spokesman for the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Embassy in Nimbin, Michael Balderstone, said Mr Bower’s supporters had promised to continue his work.

Mr Balderstone said Mr Bower was now unlikely to attend Nimbin’s 21st annual cannabis law reform rally, the MardiGrass, on the first weekend of May, where he had been expected to speak.

Mr Balderstone said the news had upset a lot of people in the village.

‘Tony does nothing but good for poor and sick people. It has fired up the protest because we all know him personally, some of us for a long time, and he is such a genuine fellow,’ he said.

Experts

‘Tony is a self taught healer who American medical cannabis experts talk to for advice. He is one in a million, a modern day medicine man.

‘He distributes free his medical cannabis tincture to hundreds of sufferers. Many have cancer, but there are also many other sicknesses that Tony treats, like Crohn’s disease.

‘For these people nothing else works. Many of his patients were crying outside the court yesterday.

‘We urge everyone who understands how shameful the cannabis laws are and the suffering they are causing to come and voice their concern and express their outrage at MardiGrass, the weekend after next. It’s time the laws changed.’

Mr Bower appeared on a popular television program in Queensland a few weeks ago in a story showing that his tincture had stopped a seven year old child from having her (Dravet Syndrome) epileptic fits.

Mr Balderstone said that since the program aired, the HEMP Embassy has been inundated with phone calls ‘and people have been driving for hours to get here just in the hope of getting some of Tony’s medicine’.

‘The girl featured on the program had been suffering from debilitating seizures since she was six weeks old. Surely no one would want to stop her getting such relief?’

Mr Balderstone urged people to see the footage for themselves.

Licence

Mr Bower has been supplying free tincture to several hundred patients, most with cancer, for several years now and has applied for a licence with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

His crop was taken by police as it was about to be harvested.

Mr Balderstone said, ‘we desperately need some decent politician to put medical cannabis on the agenda because the word is out about the healing powers of this plant.

‘It’s not just hippies talking now, it’s the internet. Since half of America now has legal medical cannabis there are stories emerging daily of, not miracle cures, but cannabis cures. It has become an extremely unpleasant job for the volunteers at the HEMP Embassy having to tell these people we cannot help them.

‘Every plant the police took from the Mullaways medical crop was labelled for a patient, every patient has a doctor’s letter.

‘He’s written countless letters and applications in years of trying to get a sane hearing.

‘Tony promises his work will go on regardless and as more and more people take advantage of the knowledge on the internet on making your own tincture, it’s hard to argue with him.’

Source: Medicine man jailed – Echonetdaily

Jailed for helping people in pain


The latest blow in the so called war against marijuana is against a man whose only crime has been to help people who are in so much pain they are prepared to break the law.

Tony Bower has been supplying his Mullaways Medical Cannabis tincture for years and – despite it being used by some high profile people in terminal pain and being advocated by a number of doctors – he has been harassed at every turn.

Yesterday he was jailed for 12 months for his trouble. He was not given bail and must serve a non-parole period of at least nine months.

It is noteworthy that the magistrate who sentenced Mr Bower, Wayne Evans, is the first NSW policeman to have risen to the position. He has been the local magistrate since 1997.

If Mr Bower were operating in many other parts of the world his activities would be legal and he would likely be a millionaire by now.

Despite an upper house inquiry considering legalising the medicinal use of cannabis in NSW, we still waste millions of dollars and police time and resources on our oxymoronic ‘Cannabis Eradication Program’.

Hopefully this magistrate’s decision will be marked as the moment public opinion and political will turned against this useless criminalzisation of a naturally occurring plant that, for all its faults, potentially has a legion of medicinal benefits.

Cannabis is not without its problems and there will always be people for whom it is not a good choice. But while it remains illegal, users will continue to be second class citizens with fewer rights than their alcoholic peers.

Nothing substantial will change with the legalisation of marijuana, except perhaps an improvement in the state of government coffers. And perhaps some drug companies will have their noses out of joint.

In the US, public opinion in favour of marijuana law reform and same sex marriage are about even. In Australia almost 70 per cent of people polled support gay marriage. It would be interesting to see the level of support for the legalisation of marijuana.

Yesterday’s decision was another blow against human rights and freedoms in our supposedly democratic state.

– Chris Dobney, Editor

Source: Jailed for helping people in pain – Echonetdaily

 

[aussiepurp]

Sending good vibes to tony he has inspired me big time

 

[mack 10]

Good vibes to mullaway/tony..
sucks they stole his shizz and threw him in jail,wtf?
mack.

 

[Persephone]

Sad news.
My condolences to Tony and family.

It seems unusual to me that this was dealt with at magistrates level, as opposed to being handed up to district, or even supreme court.
Any reason for that?

It is noteworthy that the magistrate who sentenced Mr Bower, Wayne Evans, is the first NSW policeman to have risen to the position. He has been the local magistrate since 1997.

I'd be appealing on that alone....considering his background as a copper, how could he be unbiased?

Though, taking it higher costs money, and could backfire....depends how you present yourself, how well prepped you are, which Judge you go before, their attitude....at a district level, you're dealing more with the state than the local authority.

A word of caution though, when playing with these guys....it's fine to be unrepentant and defiant .....(in your head)...but, when you've got a staring roll in the theater of justice.....humble, comes to mind.

P.

 

[Guest 26753]

I heard from Tony's wife that they have engaged a lawyer to handle the appeal in the Supreme Court. It was always in Tony's strategy that the final outcome would be finally decided in the court system. The real action begins with the appeal.
I think the fact that you have an indigenous man recognised as his tribe's medicine man, the "Clever Man", using an idigenous plant to save people's lives, will be a huge factor in the court.
Tony is prepared to take this all the way to the High Court if need be.
He is not arrogant. He is simply politely defiant.