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When I came back to the US, I felt that I was in the land of the defeated.

That it had been destroyed. It was not the same country that I left.

It affected me, but mine family did not want to hear about it.

I started to dream of one sisterhood that could the whole people.

I was coming home from a meeting with local activists.

A woman saw me and came crying across the street and said, "Sister."

"I lost my job. I have a seven-year-old son. "

"I am an alcoholic and was on my way for the wine trade. You are a character. "

She threw herself crying in my arms.

I looked up while I was hugged the woman and thought:

"Forgive me."

Then I let her go and said: "Have you tried the cannabis plant?"

And she said, "Wait a minute. What are you for a nun? "

Cannabis. It is a nationwide epidemic.

SHERIF WARNKE SHERIF IN MERCED COUNTY

Most do not like about the idea of ​​smoking pot.

Everything that takes over the body That way, ... should be checked.

JOHN GARCIA SEAT CATS ADVOCATE

Who doesn't know anyone who smokes grass?

I can talk to a judge, or the public prosecutor.

Who do you know who doesn't smoke?

LARRY D. MORSE II COMPLAINTS IN MERCED COUNTY

Americans want marijuana, and we are not aware of ...

... how bad it is to get here.

ALEX Sister Cat's Son

Most don't even call it one drug longer. It's just grass.

If you compare it to alcohol, young still looking oblique to alcohol.

People say "it's just marijuana" But marijuana is still illegal.

So it's not "just" marijuana. Yes, on the surface it is,

- But there are so many gloomy ones items related to it.

Catholics, Muslims, Scientologists and Baptists say nothing.

BISKON RON ALLEN

We lose the battle of addiction

-to Satan, the enemy himself.

It is dangerous to grow plants, so I did worries me on mother's behalf

- and on behalf of everyone else, who does that.

She has been in danger many times.

I always say, "I don't want that you lose your life because of this. "

But I help, because that's what who pay the bills, -

- and mother thinks spirituality gets people to listen. They will hear this.

Merced County. Earth is so good, that we will get plants up to four kilos.

- Here's my card. - We have nuns who are drug dealers.

The sisters provide cannabis for dying people.

The dress does not matter. Selling if you are drugs, you are a drug dealer.

We have a sacred call.

We have to stop it here That's why I'm doing this!

He doesn't understand it.

It's an old problem. Fabrics destroy life.

We take their drugs and destroy them, and I bring them to court.

After all the failures. After being left as homeless by my family,

- people need to understand that i make it necessary-

- to protect it, which I have built up.

There's Chris. In nightgown. That is not her wedding dress.

Chris, I'm on film.

I know that, Mom.

SEARCH HAT HAT PREVIOUS CHRISTINE

I was born and raised in Wisconsin. I took my education there.

I took a trade exam. I worked in business.

I voted for Ronald Reagan once.

I married my husband Gary, when I was 28 years old.

... it is my honor to be able to present, for the first time, -

- as husband and wife, Gary and Christine.

It was an incredibly happy day. I was very in love.

We were happy in the first years and we survived the American dream.

During one year I was pregnant with our first son.

- Okay... - Pregnant in the first month.

Give a hand, please.

Three years later we had three children and lived in a big house in Kentucky.

Hi, Gary. What are you planting?

Tomatoes.

We had a good marriage. Everyone was jealous. We were happy.

This is my beautiful wife. She is so sweet. Continually.

- Say you love me. - I dont do that.

- Stand beside your husband. - He loves me.

- Hint to the family. - Tell me how much you love me.

I had my exam, and I was ambitious.

As the children grew, he went home with them,

- while expanding mine consultancy.

- Do you have children enough? - I have my children.

Gary went home and took care of the children.

You could always lean on him.

He wanted to go home with the kids. The turned into many diapers and a lot of food.

He was a very present father.

He was a wonderful father.

- It's a tape I read. - I love you dad.

He was a good father.

He was always there for me.

He took me to football ... We did many things together.

She provided the family. She was the CEO. She was the boss.

She didn't find herself in anything.

She was a great model for me during my upbringing.

Chris was just as streamlined, as you stay in the banking world.

There was no rebel hidden in her.

I worked as a consultant in telecommunications, -

- and it turned out that I was pretty good at it.

I implemented business people's fantasies.

I served many money for many people.

I moved to Amsterdam on behalf of an American company

- to launch theirs services in six countries.

Through the ten years, where i lived in Holland,

- earned my consulting business a million dollars.

My husband liked to save. We liked to save, -

- and he agreed to set aside $ 300,000, -

- so I could reopen my consultancy in the USA.

This is a picture from my office in Kentucky. From our house in Kentucky.

- It's hard to find. - The downstairs freezer, Meg.

They re-established themselves.

Is this the living room?

Everything was in position for a happy family life.

There are three monkeys!

But it was a big deception. There were quite different things going on.

- It feels bigger, doesn't it? - Yeah.

What are you doing up there?

After moving to Kentucky and had bought a house there,

- Gary decided to bring the kids to the camping.

His sister came by with the mail.

In his name but with other addresses.

She became so curious, that she opened some of the envelopes-

-and found a lot of account statements.

It came as a shock because it was accounts that she did not know about.

It was pure luck that she got the letters and discovered the truth.

He had taken the million that was saved up on our company account.

He said, "You're poor, I'm rich. That's just how it is."

I heard her quiver in the phone, for it was incredibly painful.

Here he has moved the money. He has moved 25,000 from here.

He took all the money. Why did He didn't just give us a little food?

He did a lot of terrible thing. The first month in Holland-

- he opened a Swiss account, which he transferred money to.

Then an account on the Isle of Man, and one in South America.

He did everything for that money ended up in his account,

- while it looked as if that they ended up in the right place.

When my lawyer saw it, she said:

"He must have planned this from the day you got married. "

The fear of being married to one for 17 years, -

- as I thought I should live with the rest of their lives,

- But who hated me. How felt? Like a cannonball in the chest.

I was broken. Humiliated.

And stupid. I blamed myself that I had not discovered it.

That's how I felt. Humble and stupid.

A psychologist wanted a party in relation to what she lived through.

That was the end of that relationship.

WE BAD CATIES FORMER MAN ABOUT AN INTERVIEW

GARY THANK YOU NO

Yes, I have the seizures here somewhere. They are ready.

He didn't steal because he was missing money. It was about control.

The fight for the money is still running.

It is a court of law. It's been a ten year long battle.

Proof...

He did not pay child support. He bought a new car right after the divorce,

- but could not pay child support.

All the boxes are full of evidence what happened over the years.

My lawyer said, "I have to tell you something. It's a bit shocking. "

I said, "Okay." And she said:

"He never let himself be separated from his previous wife. "

I was in shock. Total in shock.

I thought he was divorced, and married him.

I have not decided to if I want to pursue the bigami case.

I had a "Sophies Choice" from the beginning.

My lawyer said, "Fight for yours money or your children. You can choose."

It was my million. He didn't earned a penny. And it was my children.

I had to fight for the kids first, and go after the money later.

I traveled home to mine family in California.

We moved in with my uncle, like also lived through a divorce.

He fought like that single father with two sons, -

-and mother fought with us.

My sister is my sister rest of life.

Her children had no father, so it was a good idea to move here.

Then I could fill the father role for her children,

- and she could fill the mother role of mine.

Then she didn't go around like nun.

It didn't come until later.

I started a whole new life

- with my kids in California.

At that time, I didn't know that just the beginning of the nightmare.

LIFE IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

The beauty of Central California valley. A valley full of nutritious land.

Here the farmers harvest lush crops.

Today, California's valley is a source of food and wealth for the whole nation.

It also provides work for millions of people.

Many different crops are grown here in the nutrient-rich soil.

Medical marijuana has been legal for a while.

According to the law, a person can grow up to twelve plants.

California is the world's food basket. The biggest source of income is marijuana.

But we have not been able to take advantage of it,

- Because it has certain illegal growers rich

- beyond their wildest imagination.

My brother talked about the cannabis laws, and that if we were smart,

- began to grow cannabis. So I was from the beginning.

She needed a job, and it's hard to find here.

Even for someone who is as smart as her. Cannabis gave a good income.

After the financial crisis in 2008-

- agriculture in the valley been in big trouble.

Fortunately, it changed in 1996 cannabis laws in California, -

- so you had to grow cannabis for medical purposes.

All the central part the valley is full of marijuana.

All the central part.

From the far north and all the way south.

Counties that have legalized cannabis has become rich in taxing it.

Highly developed for medical use, but also to the black market.

Now a days breeding many farmers cannabis.

Why go up into the mountains, when to do it in the backyard?

There are many who breed it, but there are also many who will steal it.

Waiting until you sleep.

If you don't know what to do, one can get big problems.

We had stayed here for four months, and I could not work with my professional

- Without having to leave my children.

That was exciting. I had never tried anything like this before.

I worked in the business world.

I was good at speech and Gary used it to grow everything in our garden.

So I knew that we should do it.

I said, "Okay, we grow grass. We delivers grass. We become the grass family. "

I went into the cannabis industry under a number of conditions.

It should be legal. We had to pay taxes.

We only had to sell to the sick and not on the black market.

Soon we had the first crops and looking for clients at the doctors.

I sold only to the sick and dying. The doctors did not give us others.

The area is so poor that we gave them grass regardless of whether they paid or not.

It's bad karma to let people suffer.

But at this time was legal cannabis brand new in California.

In the beginning, people did not believe that someone delivered cannabis here in town.

So we knocked, -

- and the person opened, Stuck out and looked around.

To see if the police were there, before they closed us in.

This photo of the five children is from the year, where I moved in with my brother.

The boys were 14-22, and my daughter was 13.

They responded differently their mother's new career choice.

I never invited my friends back home.

They were not ready for that.

They didn't have to go back in the backyard, for they did not have to see all the plants.

Where are you going, honey?

We didn't have to sell on the black market, for it attracted twenty.

You are such a troublemaker. Real troublemakers.

The legal way is much more expensive. You have to pay taxes and hire guards.

Come here, monkey. I'll throw you into the other bed.

But that's the safe way so one should not be worried.

But I didn't know what to expect.

It was likely that my children, like my brother's children,

- wanted to smoke grass in high school. But I didn't know anything about that.

I put them to work instead.

Alex was big and strong, so he helped me with everything possible.

He was the man in the house.

Are they busy, so they can't smoke so much.

They found it here when they dug. It's a dinner bell.

As the cultivation of marijuana took off, I had a lot of fun with it.

I didn't have to smoke then. So I...

... stole my mother's shutters instead.

I was once really skewed under dining, and she said nothing,

- because she didn't know how to handle it.

My uncle confronted me and said: "Why are your eyes so gloomy?"

My answer was: "It's the cat. I'm allergic to cats. "

I didn't think of anything else. They knew, that it was a lie, but let it lie.

It went well for us.

Those who grow almonds, is probably just as proud.

But I had rules. I drove the business legally.

It was really ... strong.

Everything had to be posted. All grass went from warehouse to order system.

There were no holes.

She is a good businesswoman. She is extremely smart.

She knows business.

But no one has become millionaires. No one has been on holiday.

In most homes there is need two incomes.

It was hard to afford home loan with just one income.

We had had the company for three years, when I discovered a blackberry trade,

- as my brother was involved in.

I exploded. My Irish temper exploded.

I was furious and that night he literally threw me out.

I literally saw my uncle take my mother in the neck

-and force her out of the house.

And I don't understand.

We were not violent against each other.

We do not hand each other. We are not like that.

We ... we shout.

My brother smashed my knees, -

-and my family spoke my screams.

I have my rules and principles, and she has her rules and principles.

And ... I said: "Too bad for you, it's my house."

I didn't consider it as a quarrel.

For me, it was about my rules. Obey them, or you move.

Christine did not receive any support from the family.

Then we disagreed about this.

Everyone took my party.

My family said: "Leave your children. It should go.

It was the marijuana. You should have knew it wouldn't work. "

She doesn't have to smile at the camera. Be the witch she usually wears.

- Exactly. - What a sweet mother.

Suddenly, I was homeless.

I walked around in the central Merced

- and looked at the houses with air conditioning and heating and light.

I had nowhere to go.

It provided an understanding for how homeless actually have it.

It was hard. Harder for her than for me,

- Because I had a house while she was in principle lived on the street.

Mom suffered from a depression and I learned that when you have problems,

- is it often your closest, who hurt you the most.

A family's failure.

I realized my whole view the family was based on a lie.

The values ​​I grew up with, did not exist.

They didn't love me. They loved, how they went out in my eyes.

No one bothered to look for her to see if she was okay.

Except ... me.

First, it was about making sure that mother was in safety

- And was okay, for that she always made sure I was.

I can do nothing without her.

We spent the time finding out where to get food from,

- or where to sleep.

I was hungry. I was not thinking the school. Only to get something to eat.

And I was thirsty.

We had a pretty serious one discussion about suicide, we two.

It was a big failure. I considered suicide daily.

I wanted to be with the angels, where there is safe. Here it was too scary.

We talked about taking pills.

With painkillers it doesn't hurt.

But we had no money, so we didn't even afford pills.

I thought about it, and finally I succeeded

- to talk her out of it. At first I thought, "Yes, for the hell!"

The only thing that kept me from doing That was that they had won.

Then my children wouldn't have a mother.

After four months as homeless went my mother finally helps me.

She guaranteed me. I was unemployed.

I was 56 but was treated like that a 17 year old who wanted to buy a house.

So I got help from mine mother to buy a house.

I rented a small house by the railroad for $ 1,000 a month.

One night in 2015, it knocked on the door at two o'clock at night.

There was a young man and asked for help.

After a burglary in Merced County is two men were killed and one wounded.

The robbers wanted marijuana, but it ended up with a shotgun.

One that I could not see forced the door opened and penetrated my house.

My son heard the tumult and came out of his bedroom

- with a gun, as he never fired before.

He killed the guy as I fought with. He put five bullets in him.

But my finger was caught in ... the swap.

The robbers probably chose the house, because it is known

- sale of marijuana to medical use, which is prohibited in Merced.

Jeez. Sometimes you have to see it as a sign from the universe on, -

-to make something you shouldn't.

How many times have you heard, "I must do as I will with my body. "

I hear it all the time. Then go out and live in a cave.

Because when you become addicted,

-It affects everyone in your family.

Your neighbor will have to relate to your addiction.

The whole community you live in. When you become addicted to marijuana ...

... not only do you destroy your own life.

You also destroy the lives of many others.

At the same time.

In Merced you must not breed marijuana as a business.

You have to breed twelve plants for their own use.

It is not possible to get permission to do business.

I started making oils of mine 12 plants that I sold worldwide.

Even though I was not allowed doing business from home.

So I balanced between different laws.

And I knew that I was moving on the border.

It's the sheriff in the region, who draws the borders.

I have to be crooked to keep up with this.

From the community in Merced County ...

We are your voice. Merced County News.

Here is Diana Perez, with Merced Countys Sheriff, Verne Warnke.

We have gangsters, who have married each other-

-and have got gangster children ...

Many murder cases are due to one external influences, such as

- or abuse of some kind. Often because of illegal drugs.

We will go after them, active and aggressive.

Cannabis can be very dangerous.

We have a nationwide epidemic.

People just want to be crooked. I do not understand it.

They are not productive. They splurge on society.

The few who do not take drugs -

- Those who work and pay tax, -

-and pay for the abusers.

Would you like your surgeon sitting outside the hospital before your surgery

- and smokes a joint and says: "I'm fine"?

Do people think it's okay? Would you like that?

What would you say to the two pilots, who flies your 747 smokes?

If it's okay, is it okay?

Or the police coming home to you, Should they be crooked,

- while trying to maintain the law and make the right decisions?

Everyone must obey the law. The government protects the citizens.

The point is that the amount of banner related marijuana is huge.

A county north of us has declared state of emergency due to this.

If it continues like this, is the next step for me too.

Officers meet their day off to get it alive.

They know it's a problem.

We are on our way to a gentleman, who are wanted for serious crimes.

Last time he was contacted by his guardian,

- They found several illegally bred marijuana plants.

He will not cooperate with the police.

I fear that local growers will believe that they will be robbed by criminals.

These gangs do not hold back in relation to shooting after the police.

- Are there twelve plants here? - Yes.

- You know it is per piece? - Yes.

- We've been doing it for four years. - What happens is ...

... that you must have twelve plants in total. Six each place.

This is one piece, So here are problems.

Two people grow here. There may only be be twelve plants per plot.

We have twelve plants there. It's the maximum.

And then we have illegal plants over here.

- If it is here? - I do not know.

- Don't you know if it is? - No.

- Do you know how many plants there are? - No, I'm not going over there.

Three years ago our county had most murders per capita.

There were many gang-related murders.

We have a problem, And that's terrible.

They save the plants behind a lot of boxes.

This is a typical little one planting with 24 plants.

With the twelve over there it will be 36.

We have found fields where people have spent their entire savings on

- cultivating marijuana. And then we are come by and have done our job.

We enforce the law and they are broken up in tears,

- because they have invested everything in an industry with a lot of gray zones.

The problem is, it's not just used for medical use.

When you are in charge of a hero county and there is something in the county,

- animating burglary, robbery, murder, violence and band crime, -

- then you have to have one zero tolerance. It must be gone.

We do everything we can, to fight it.

I destroy their products and bring them to court.

When the week is over, We destroy more than three tons.

So much end up dump every Friday.

Sometimes we find so much, that it can't be on the truck.

Medical marijuana has been legally in California for a while.

But it's just a step on the way against legalizing its use.

It was 535 kilos.

So much we threw out.

That corresponds to $ 1.1 million.

We step in for everyone who breaks the law. Do You Grow Illegal Cannabis,

-You get a fine or a prison sentence.

When the harvest approaches, the police are looking for plants.

Although we do not sell on the black market and not have THC, -

- They can take our plants.

It is illegal. Don't sell it.

I'm not allowed to grow more than twelve plants.

What makes it illegal is, that we do not allow any kind of

- marijuana pharmacy in Merced County. Not at all.

Although we work as a pharmacy, there is always a risk that they will

- and river plants up for thousands of dollars.

We are on the road to the police station, so they stop here often-

- to show what they are just confiscated.

They usually ask if I want to make a contribution.

My harvest is threatened.

Try to convince me, that the twelve plants are for their own consumption.

You should smoke constantly, without being able to use it all.

They only cultivate so much with sales in mind.

I have been assigned a task and I take it very seriously.

But we continue to grow and run the risk.

Is it okay that we plant them a little randomly around the ground,

- So the sheriff doesn't discover them?

It is okay. We can put one over there.

- Over there ... - It will be our bonus plants.

The worst thing that can happen is, that the sheriff takes them.

If he counts them, we can say: "Take it there and there."

Technically, we can get $ 1,000 fines.

But if they overlook a plant ... A plant is worth 3,000.

- It is a risk that we must run. - Every seed is worth the money.

See the sunlight behind the gazebo.

Can we plant them there somewhere?

And then we save the little ones. We find bright places around.

I'm willing to run the risk, if you are.

Let's put them in the ground.

I am preparing the lamp.

At one point everyone knew that the earth was flat.

At one point, everyone knew that women had smaller brains than men.

Now everyone knows that cannabis is dangerous.

The question is a test of the nation.

Our work is testing the limits of the law, -

- our right to cultivate this medicine and support ourselves.

They try to put out a smoke screen and say they have a great product,

- as you have to do a hero lots of other things to sell ..

Do not think that an abuse prevents me from prosecuting.

Because it doesn't, so ...

We cannot grow without a license.

We need a license to the company can grow.

Your biggest challenge right now is thus the police's view of the matter,

- and that you are constantly looking at you over the shoulder after the police?

Yes, we are scared. We do something illegal.

How can I say to a farmer, that it is safe to play with us "?

We would be able to cooperate, when we have our permission.

You have defended many who have used cannabis, through your career.

Do you think they would charge one like me to sell?

Do you think they would?

Well ...

If they classify it ... as you sell ...

... like a drug.

- Okay. - If they consider that ...

... yes, so no doubt.

Merced County doesn't want it.

Marijuana has never been legal. Not at all in the twentieth century.

It became part of the cultural struggle and opposition to the Vietnam War.

So we never got to that debate whether the drug has

-A medical justification?

There are two well-known ones components of the cannabis plant:

THC and CBD.

The science behind all confuses.

Hi, my name is David Allen. I'm a retired heart surgeon.

I am a member of International Cannabinoid Research Society, ICRS.

So I research in cannabinoids.

The difference between THC and CBD is, what they bind to.

THC binds to the CB1 receptor, which makes one get crooked.

CBD works by means of mechanisms other than THC.

CBD binds to CB2 receptors, and it also binds to

- opioid receptors, serotonin receptors and dopamine receptors.

In the future, cannabis will be used for to cure cancer, prevent heartbeat, -

- Stop diabetes, epilepsy and a variety of other diseases.

This is the childhood of this research.

I harvested mine first CBD crops in April

- and soon realized that I would quickly sell it all.

So I had to get more. The things has changed a lot in recent years.

Three years ago cultivated no one in California CBD.

I couldn't get it from Oregon. No cultivated CBD.

So to get it I gathered three growers.

A Mexican guy bought some land. An eerie, haunted, -

- abandoned and burned house, which was also incredibly old.

One can see that the addicts have been here with their syringes.

There have been small heroin holes here.

I bought the gun and was responsible to guard the crops.

My son Alex wanted a car.

If he was guarding crops two nights a week, -

- He wanted a car. - And you got it?

So that part worked.

But Alex couldn't do it alone, so I asked Zane.

I just had to watch and watch with some plants. Does anyone pass by,

- they see that someone is and goes.

We had 60 plants worth $ 60,000.

One month to and the 60,000 had become $ 240,000.

They grow most the last month.

The crops would be worth a quarter of a million.

We switched to live in the camper.

One night at five the dogs began to bark.

I heard the noise and the dogs, so I went outside.

I saw a masked guy, so I shouted him in. "Hello!"

He looked at me and said: "Don't be here."

And I shouted, "Get out of here!"

He just looked at me, and then began to raise the plants.

Zane took his gun and shot towards the guy.

He moved a few meters and then proceeded to pick up plants.

- Zane shot in front of him. - But he...

He ran this road and Zane shot again.

I shot three or four times before he said, "How do I get away?"

Zane pointed to the cactus and heard him complain.

Then he jumped across the fence and stuck off.

I gathered everyone and said, "We must harvest, otherwise someone is killed. "

But they didn't want to.

We had to be taken from there Immediately, but we did not.

I'd be thrown off, as soon as I heard the first shot.

We raised several cameras, more alarms and boards with nails in.

It was my turn to go out here and guard the place.

I wouldn't be here alone, So I asked Zane to come with me.

It was five o'clock in the morning, and I heard the alarm.

I heard the dogs and said: "So now, Zane."

- I took my shoes and a weapon. - Two balls stroking under the bed.

The balls flew over our ears.

- They tried to hit the gas. - They wanted to blow us in the air.

Glass shattered in all vehicles. Glass shattered in the camper.

- A ball flew past my mother's head. - They tried to kill us.

- They just emptied the magazine. - The camper was a big hole.

- A bullet stroked his nose. - I only had five bullets left.

It was the worst gun. I don't think she bought it.

- It was pale dark. - I had to load my hand.

Those who shot at us covered for others who stole our plants.

- I heard a rumbling sound. - He shot at the plants.

- I hate to shoot in the blind. - They screamed, "Stop, they kill us!"

- They stopped shooting. - "It's an emergency! Guns!"

She pretended, that she called the police.

- "Send every man!" And then the address. - But she didn't talk to anyone.

Zane said I could stop the play, because they were gone.

I called everyone I knew who owned a weapon and asked for help.

We didn't want to go empty-handed, for we had grown them all summer.

Within six hours we removed all the plants.

They were amazing and tasted great. They were very strong.

I heard the grower shout to his men, that they were finished.

- "Jump into the cars. We slip." - He just wanted to go.

I said, "Those of you working for me and who want salary today, - "

- go nowhere before we have collected each one leaf, each one twig. "

I would give them a huge shock. Get them all the way up to the dips.

We didn't leave as much as a magazine.

My daughter was the worst. She cried when she heard it

- and tried to convince me that it was completely off track.

You end up in a shootout, it's time to retire.

Do not do your homework, it always ends like this.

The grower was angry with me and it took a few days before I understood,

- that he was concerned about safety, while I talked about enthusiasm

- and about showing thieves, who decided.

I just want a better gun.

Or better security. Who needs a shootout?

Even if you shoot one and yourself shot ... who needs it?

If weapons are a necessity, then I think one should leave it alone.

I've seen people come too many stupid things.

You can't just find a place

- and cultivate it without knowing anything or do his homework first.

You have to check the neighbors and read about the history of the place.

If you don't do your homework, then one is murdered.

We needed the money, though never decided to do that again.

I can't describe how frustrating it was.

Too many sleepless nights.

We didn't call the police, but they became aware of us after that.

And now we are all being watched.

I assume they are listening all my phone calls.

- Hi. - Are you here because of the gun?

Come with me.

I expect them to read mine emails and that they shadow us.

That's my number. If you want one alternatively, it is the same six numbers

- but with 6003 at last.

It's the office number, if I don't answer the cell phone.

They never find anything criminal but every time they pass,

- I think if it is now, that the house of cards overturns.

Marijuana, cannabis, grass.

It makes you paranoid. You think people are after you,

-and that people are watching you.

It is one of the effects of the substances.

Why on earth will anyone live with suspicion,

- that the police are watching with you up from the trees?

I believe in holistic medicine.

I work with the plant and my job is a sacred call to heal.

The county is so conservative that the only ones patients who doctors referred to,

- were dying patients, patients with stroke, or bedridden.

They were about to die.

We delivered cannabis to sick people, -

- But their insurance did not cover. Do you meet a dying man, -

- do not let the person suffer, so we gave them cannabis for free.

If we didn't hear from them, we thought if they were dead and called them:

"No, but I have no money." "Please, we'll send you one by one."

It was those years, who made me sister.

Those years made me nun.

But the suit I was wearing some years earlier.

After the financial crisis had robbed All of us, the Occupy movement arose.

We got up and said, "We accept Not that it continues like this. "

When the Occupy movement arose, it felt I found that I had found my family!

Other Americans are also angry! It was the coolest.

- We have decided... - We have decided...

... that the blockade continues!

... that the blockade continues!

I told my children: "We must join the Occupy movement. "

They said, "We go on Saturday, if you come as a nun. "

So it all started out as a bet.

People who say it doesn't help to demonstrate must think about.

Susan B. Anthony, the women's movement, Rosa Parks.

Nothing happens until people get angry and begins to fight against.

We defend ourselves.

I walked around as a sister Occupy for a period.

I had been let down by mine man through 17 years and my family ...

It was such a big failure, that it finally gave me the courage

- doing something radical and totally crazy.

Such as forming a non-word.

I thought if they thought that I was so horrible,

- because I sold grass, that I deserved to be homeless,

- Then they could rush me and I be able to build my own family.

People of course: "Are you a Catholic nun?"

"No." "What kind of nun are you so?"

"I am a self-appointed, Anarchist activist nun. "

"Cool, must I be with you?"

"No, you don't understand. I does not recruit. I'm just like that. "

But they said, "Here's my number. I want to join."

How people reacted everywhere.

Soon I was surrounded by beautiful, like-minded women, -

- who would fight against the system for the cannabis healing power.

It feels like we have been led for a reason. With a purpose.

Many in my circle knew that the plant had medicinal properties.

They didn't just smoke to be crooked.

Most of the people we meet have had a hard life.

One of the things I appreciate about Sister Kate is that she will help them.

The family heals you.

The unity and choice of being with the family, gives strength.

We just want to spread joy, and what we have discovered with everyone else.

Sorry I...

The cannabis plant has done so much for me.

I became a nun six months ago.

She is a fantastic model, and very spiritual.

I like what she's doing, so ... I like her mission.

I had eating disorders, which made me start smoking grass.

If I don't smoke cannabis, I can't eat.

It started when something happened in mine family that I was not told.

So I got the disease. We all have bad experiences with our families.

The Cannabis has brought us together.

All the sisters are going out to see the cannabis cultivation.

We are serious women with a serious mission.

My goal is that we should spread ourselves like the Catholic nuns did.

The grass nodes will spread around the world.

On Wednesday, Laurie goes to Coffee Bandits to meet the opponents.

Freya and Cassidy take care about the products and sales.

Grass is like honey. The local products are the best.

Cultivated by local women.

We want those who hate us will come and talk to us.

Plant-based medicine. Plant-based diet. Mother Nature.

It is our religion. Our healing powers are our weapons.

A global demonstration is being held for cannabis. And I want to, -

-you choose what you want to participate in.

Jamie, you might go with that?

She rang and said: "Now I know what we should be called.

Sisters of the Valley. " She was taken down the town hall-

-to make it official.

- It will be fun. - Yes.

It's like a chance to. You get a chance for life.

This is exciting.

Most people smoke to be crooked.

They don't smoke marijuana, because they are sick.

We have statistics that say,

- Two percent of those allowed to smoking marijuana, need to do it.

If you continue down the path of destruction ...

... then it will cost you your soul.

We grow cannabis that contains very CBD and very little THC.

Will you take them here? I cut them straight.

After three to six months we harvest.

This one is going to give THC But we can't just cut it down.

We dry them for a few weeks.

We bless the holy kitchen.

Bless the hand in our kitchen. Because it will soon work hard.

Then we warm up the coconut oil.

We add CBD cannabis.

We cook it for three or four hours.

We filter it ...

We add essential oils, bottling it on the bottle

-and puts on labels.

When we receive one online ordering ...

... we'll send it by mail.

The police have no problems with CBD cannabis.

This gives a healing tea.

The problem is that no one can see the difference on a THC and a CBD plant.

This is, for example, five percent THC and eleven percent CBD.

We must not sell it, it is too high. But we smoke it.

My question is: She's trying to Sell ​​a product as a medicine.

What medical background does she have,

- who supports, that this cures anything?

I don't think it cures anyone.

They are drug dealers and when they claim that it is medicine, they lie.

If it really is so magical, why is the pharmaceutical industry

- So don't start cultivating it? If It's so good, why doesn't it?

They just want to be crooked. That's why you take drugs.

There are many medical studies, showing the effects of cannabidiol.

No one knows the scale of the positive effect.

It affects so many things, that it is completely crazy.

It's hard for people to understand, how this one substance,

- may affect so many diseases. They don't believe it.

But there is virtually none diseases you can mention -

- Which doesn't get better with cannabis.

I've had Bell's palsy. The face becomes slack, -

- and the feeling disappears. I used CBD oil and CBD ointment, -

- And it was good after two weeks. It saved my life.

Most cancer patients who smoke marijuana, eventually dies.

What we do is illegal. To run a business from home

- one must have a permit from the county.

We have never received such a permit.

I would not let THC cannabis the laws prevent me

- distributing THC-free products.

What do you want to achieve? Let us say, that you cooperate with a pharmacy,

- and it starts rolling. What is your goal?

We succeeded if we can create 10,000 or 20,000 jobs here in the valley.

Yes, it would be good. We need that.

Our county has the most depressed throughout the state.

Central California should be the leading CBD exporter in the world.

There are restrictions on how do Sisters of the Valley-

- could build a real one serious industry here in the valley.

We have applied for the county permission to operate.

SEAT KATE FIK NO AUTHORIZATION

If Merced County could, they banned all cannabis.

All cultivation and sale of cannabis.

The old guard still makes the rules.

Like most of the United States California is very religious.

There are more than 50 churches in Merced County alone.

Everyone grows. I wanted an extra room, and the girl behind the counter said:

"What kind of nun are you?" So I told you.

And then she said, "Oh, my God, you will come and bless my crops? "

It was the receptionist behind the counter!

People were really angry with us when they thought we were Catholic nuns.

I do not understand how anyone may feel offended.

We follow the Native Americans and the faith of the beginning.

They love the earth ... It's not like that that we do not believe in a creative god.

We just don't necessarily follow the Christian principles.

- We are... - Why do you call you nuns?

We don't. We call ourselves sisters. Others call us nuns.

In our belief is ...

The most important thing is to organize life after the lunar cycle and the quarters of the year.

Next, it is about expelling compassion for others.

Are you trying to say that Jesus Christ does not exist?

No, just that is not our ...

- Because I'm a pastor. - Okay, but we won't discuss that.

- We respect your faith ... - How can you call your sisters?

The definition of a sister is, that they live and work together.

They pray together and make promises. We live and work together.

We pray together and make promises. We do not want to discuss it!

- We're not discussing ... - Do you believe in Jesus Christ?

- We are not discussing Jesus Christ. - But, I mean ...

We do not practice religion. We do not live like Jesus.

We will not discuss it. It's your discussion, your area.

We are humble women who do medicine that we share with people.

It was cozy, pastor.

The spiritual element is important. The soul needs it.

I grew up as a Catholic, but did not care about the church.

It was the least of it.

I have practiced my own spiritual rituals from the age of seven.

Our order follows the beginners.

The first nurses on them European castles in the Middle Ages.

Interestingly, there is a strong one connection between the faith of the beginning, -

and the beliefs of the indigenous Americans.

We need structure and tradition in life. And to serve.

The individual freedom prevailed. We must regain the sense of community.

Sister Kate, I thank you for all that you do.

The Native Americans have worked with the cannabis plant for centuries.

David comes to our ceremonies. We have a special connection.

We share each other's thoughts and words.

There are no differences.

We are the same. We are one people.

They are medical people. I visit the medicine men.

When I hurt and can't visit the medical community, -

- I gotta go the ordinary hospital.

But this is my new hospital.

This is my pharmacy, you can say.

Merced County is very poor, so a legal cannabis business here

- is a necessity and good, thanks to the jobs we create.

But there is also a lot of crime. And addicts taking heroin,

and meth and god know what.

It's not surprising, that it was just a matter of time,

- before these problems hit our own family.

When Mother finally settled down and we didn't have to worry anymore,

-With I parades and broke down.

I was looking for a resort and began taking drugs.

Do I have to see it again?

I experimented with a white crystal-like powder.

Mom does this. I put them here so they can dry.

It made me feel better.

Dry them in the towel, and then put them in the dish.

When Mother found out it was methamphetamine, she flipped out.

Alex looked like a 14-year-old. He went from being well-trained-

- to be a thin, meth-dependent scarecrow.

Alex, what are you doing?

She asked if I wanted to rehabilitation. At first it scared me.

For then it felt as if, that I would never be happy again.

- Are you a sweet boy, Alex? - Yes.

When? When were you sweet?

Say, "All the time, Dad."

Weaning costs $ 15,000 for 30 days.

I hadn't talked to his father in for years. He had health insurance.

Show mother it. Hold it up so she can see it.

I remember having to Talk to his father every night.

We had fought against each other for decades.

But I made him pay for Alex's detox.

Like all addicts, I bought a big one bag drug just before I had to leave.

- See what I got! - What is it?

I tried to take an overdose.

That night, mine began heart to shut down.

It was slower and slower.

I made myself sleep ...

... at a high concentration of meth.

You die, quite simply.

What?

I kept myself awake. The only way to do that -

-Where to stand up the wall.

If I sat here, I would fall asleep.

Are you beginning to get tired?

That was creepy.

Say, "Give me my bottle, though. I just want to go to bed. "

Then I smoked at rehab. And then a release home.

Six days after I got home, I got a relapse.

My child was really bad.

A friend told that all programs for meth abusers fail.

She said, "You like that experiment. Experiment! "

Are you in prison? What have you done?

So she decided to go my phone and my car keys-

- and put me in house arrest For quite some time.

All I got was food, exercise and grass.

- Unlimited quantities of grass. - What happened?

It lasted for six months.

Until she was sure that I could go elsewhere.

When people hear the word "addict", They think of one who will not be clean.

They do not understand that many of us

- really want to do just that, But we need help.

If you love your child, so give him a safe frame,

- and let him work himself get out of the depression.

It costs $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 for a month's rehab.

But it's worth it, because now I'm clean and don't spend the money on drugs.

We test a softer line and experience clear progress with Alex.

My mother saved my life. She was the only one there for me.

I'm so grateful that I could enter the compassionate path.

Only a few days after the legalization of medical marijuana in California, -

- the public prosecutor may have extinguished the industry flame.

Jeff Sessions canceled The Obama Administration Law, -

- who protected legalized marijuana from federal ban.

The federal laws that prohibit marijuana can now be introduced.

I have given our prosecutors task to prosecute

-the worst criminals in society.

It's the drug dealers. Drug dealers, you smoke in prison.

It is quite obvious, that our government is a joke.

We relate to it because we do not want them to come stormy-

- and take everything we own. So we have to respect it.

If the government decides to shut us down ...

If they decide to ban industry, it is a disaster.

That may mean the end to us.

According to the government, heroin and methamphetamine medical justification.

The government perceives marijuana as being more harmful.

But the number that dies of one marijuana overdose, is zero.

It has always been like that. Should heroin and methamphetamine be okay, -

- When marijuana is not? What is it based on?

A genuine, analytical assessment of the harmful effect? No.

We want better control of the marijuana, here in the state, if it gets legal, -

- than we have had for decades as a result the failure of the courts.

It's the police. We have a search warrant!

Many think they know the answer. "Do it legal and the problem disappears. "

But the problem will still be there.

It is by its very nature. It's so lucrative.

It requires almost no one investment to grow it.

When you can go from that to to harvest in 90 days ...

... it will be a lot of grass.

I'm worried about all of us.

It is at this time of year, that people come creeping.

We are quite vulnerable right now.

Either one is robbed by twenty, or also the police.

If they come and you don't have a permit, then you are in trouble.

I'm afraid of the sheriff and the police. If they come, they'll take it all.

Free path.

The year is lost.

All year, as you have worked hard for. Away.

There is no one here. They can be in the middle of a shift.

Maybe they come and look at it every other day or something.

It's the end product.

It's good quality. You can see THC here in crystallized form.

It's purple-like.

The house here may well produce grass a value of 1.5 million a year.

Illegal. By harvesting every two months.

Can it happen to Sister Kate? Can they do a search there?

Yes, it can easily happen to her.

I can't see why sister Kate should be exempt.

It would be an interesting case if they made a raid on her.

Maybe that's what it takes to shed light on the case

-and start a process ...

... about what it takes to legislate on the differences.

And get it defined in the law.

The sheriff says we introduce grass with a lot of THC and lying about it.

I'll show you what we're going through.

Here are test results from SC Labs.

If anyone had been crooked by ours products, we had been shut down.

People need to know that they exist here.

- I'm just copying them. - Okay.

- Okay. - I'll show them to the sheriff.

- Thanks. Well, somebody is sensible. - He's one of the skeptics.

I wanted as much CBD as possible to as many as possible.

So we hired Will to obtain our permission.

WILL SKAARUP lobbyist

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. We hired a lobbyist, -

-for we have too much to lose.

We met with locals officials on her behalf.

We wish, agreeing to a pilot program, -

- that is only about non-psychotic CBD cultivation.

We have learned to create marijuana plants with a high THC content

- or high CBD content and little THC, which does not make people crooked.

It is non-psychoactive medicine for people with severe diseases.

We are in dialogue with five seniors officials to change the law.

To hire an official to handle officials are a bit unorthodox.

The public now has the right to comment themselves. Maximum three minutes per person.

I'm talking to the Sisters of the Valley there produces non-psychoactive marijuana.

A pilot program would give you a unique opportunity to supervise

- with a development project, which can lead to conditional use.

We are like an open book. Adjust us, tax us. Thank you for your time.

Next.

LABOR WORK GIVEN THE WORDS ADVENTURE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

You speak and Freya speak. I have a...

An old native told me four years ago when I started:

"You have understood the power of the words.

But you have not yet understood the power of silence. "

So I go in there and am quiet. You're my one weapon.

You become my logical weapon. Freya becomes the weapon of emotion.

I'm going to sit there and keep mouth for two hours.

- You won't do it enough. - Which is not easy for me.

Our company would probably stay valued at $ 5 million today.

We have five million to lose.

We have something to lose So we go up the rules.

I don't think she gets the license. It would open the door to others

-to import marijuana.

I don't think she's getting a permit.

If we get a no, it looks bad. Then we must ... close.

It's a mess.

We will try to fight for it the rules for obtaining the permit.

If she gets the permission, sees her future bright.

OUR CAMERA WAS NOT TO DO GET ACCESS TO THE MEETING

- You were incredibly calm and nice. - Thanks.

You're good at your work because it was not the meeting I was expecting.

Did you? It was all the adults.

They wanted to tell you they were thinking to allow THC supplies in Merced.

Surprisingly, everyone had accustomed to growing hemp.

And they decided that it should be legal.

It was good, that I didn't say so much.

Keep on the hat, girls! Jamie presses the nail at the bottom.

She raised her children here and want to create jobs in our county, -

- which is so incredibly poor.

The future of the cannabis here in the state looks pretty bright.

If we really want to affect distribution,

- we need our products in all the shops and pharmacies in the world.

People are interested Sisters of the Valley.

Lots of people would like to talk to us.

I'm so nervous. I have looked forward to this so long!

They call themselves Sisters of the Valley.

- Sisters of the Valley. - They grow marijuana.

They help people who have pain.

Our order requires that we learn people about CBD and cannabis.

It brings money and jobs to Central California.

If I didn't been completely broken.

Without a place to go. With all my life at stake.

Then I might not have had the courage.

When people lose everything they own and have, then you have to be afraid.

For they do radical things.

It is an ancient tradition ...

... that if something dramatic happens life, then you take a new name.

Many other sisters think about the idea about choosing a new name and a new life.

Christine is the woman, as the family did.

But Kate ... don't go to Kate.

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