- Alicia Castilla is a different kind of woman. Author of several books about cannabis, an activist and a grower. This Argentinean woman, lived for several years in Brazil, and since 2010 placed her home in Uruguay. You can start imagining this strong woman´s profile. Never giving up the fight and struggling for her ideas and rights.She is over sixty years old and keeps struggling, day after day, for her ideas. This time, facing the prison sentence imposed by the Uruguayan authorities, due to a complaint by a Spanish grower. The police found 29 plants of marijuana in her garden.
Prison is never a easy place, but if we add to the deprivation of liberty that you are surrounded by cockroaches, rats, lice and deplorable sanitary conditions, the situation discourages even the most optimistic person. Who was going to tell Alicia, that this journey she is going through, it would reopen the discussion of self-cultivation in Uruguay.
The press and the Uruguayan society, have voiced her situation, reopening the debate on the importance of marijuana´s self-cultivation decriminalization. Activist groups, in favor of marijuana decriminalization, have protested outside the courthouse. These protest and debates have led to three bills to be discussed in the Uruguayan parliament. One of them, if passed, would grant amnesty to more than 350 people, who are now imprisoned in the same situation as Alicia.
Sources:
http://cannabis.com.uy/despenalizacion/alicia-castilla-desde-una-carcel-uruguaya/#more-248
http://www.softsecrets.nl/bl0gs/es/2010/04/alicia-castilla-cultura-cannabis-flor-argentina-biodinamica/ http://edant.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2009/05/19/_-01921862.htm
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