Charlo Greene, the TV reporter in Alaska who quit on-air over marijuana use, is facing up to 54 years in prison for pot-related offences, despite the state legalising its recreational use in November 2014.
Greene’s ‘Fuck it, I quit’ resignation on-air at KTVA became a viral sensation back in September 2014, getting more than 13 million views on YouTube, after she revealed she was the owner of a said ‘Alaska Cannabis Club’.
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Despite the passage of the measure two months later, Greene became the target of undercover investigations by Alaska law enforcement, including raids of her club. The Alaska Attorney General’s office told The Guardian that Greene is facing 14 offences that could lead to 54 years behind bars.
The 28-year-old reporter told The Guardian she thought she was facing 24 years in prison on eight counts, calling the prosecution ‘my modern day lynching’ on her blog.
‘I just found out I’m facing an additional six felonies – 30 more years,’ Greene, whose legal name is Charlene Egbe, said on her blog. ‘That’s 54 years in prison for a plant. (And) the attorney I paid to handle my case, who’s been working it for the last year, just let me know she’s quitting to join the prosecution and not giving me back any of the money she was paid to finish my case.’
WOW!!!
‘More than 100 million people around the world watched me quit,’ Greene said on her blog. ‘And of the now 4,000 members of the Alaska Cannabis Club we’ve served to date, there was literally only one person there to support me.’
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Greene told the commission that a fundraising campaign she launched after leaving the television station was to benefit her business and not for advocating the Alaska’s ballot initiative promoting the legalisation of marijuana.
What do you think we should wish her? Good luck with the case?