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Ganjapreneur and rapper buy $4,000 wheelchair for pot activist

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 07/02/2015 - 08:45

When Colorado-based ganjapreneur Jayson Emo saw the viral video of police raiding an unpermitted medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Ana, Calif. — a video that included footage of a female police officer saying she wanted to kick dispensary manager Marla James (a 54-year-old wheelchair-bound amputee and marijuana activist) in her “nub” — he knew he had to do something.

Screenshot of video showing Santa Ana, Calif., police raiding unpermitted medical marijuana dispensary Sky High Holistic.

“We were watching the video online, and (my talent manager) Bobby was actually over here at my office, and one of my employees said, ‘You see how much duck tape is on her wheelchair?'” said Emo, who is better known in Colorado’s cannabis community as Giddy Up. “My manager Bird called her attorney and we talked with her, and she said (the wheelchair) was 10 years old and she could barely keep it charged.”...

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