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GET THIS ILLEGAL POT WEED OFF MY DASH

Hi everyone! I am coming to you desperate and begging to you for help.

Myself [x] and my partner Oscar [x] (together we run WeedPornDaily and We Have the Munchies, our food and recipe blog [x] ) are homeless and are on our last straw where we are coming to you guys on our knees begging.

I am going to give you the TLDR version of our gofundme page.

I am a 1st generation american born chilena/ecuatoriana and Oscar is a 2nd generation Cuban-American who are both struggling with our own abusive households (I myself have been abused by my parents and Oscar has been physically attacked by his step father for defending his mother) and we are now threatened with eviction which will happen in 4 days time. (I am writing this on May 7, 2015). Oscar has been disabled by a car accident that happened to him a few months ago and is still in his recover process.

We are both hardworking artist who have known each other since early high school and figures are in our own communities. I am a recent graduate from the University of Florida and Oscar is a self-employed web programmer and social media content creator. I make about 120$ a week and he makes on a good week 80-90$. We are without support from people directly related to us and need anything we can get.

before today, i hadn’t heard of “rough rides,” and there’s a good chance you haven’t either. basically, a “rough ride” is a horrifying process in which ‘a handcuffed man or woman is put into the back of a police van or paddy wagon, without being buckled in or secured. The vehicle then drives recklessly, making sharp, dangerous turns and sudden movements in ways that throw the passenger violently around the vehicle.’

as of today, we now know that this is exactly what happened to Freddie Gray before he died. 

here’s the evidence: rather than take Freddie Gray the short 2 minute drive from the arrest site to the police station (see left), he was deliberately driven recklessly for over 40 minutes (see right) around Baltimore, handcuffed and in the back of a police van, with no seatbelt, until his spine broke.

the terrifying thing is that this seems to happen a lot. earlier today, two more people came forward to testify that they were put through rough rides at the hands of the Baltimore PD. a 43-year-old man was charged with ‘public urination’ and given a rough ride that resulted in a spine fracture that rendered him quadriplegic for the rest of his life. five years ago, a former Baltimore police officer admitted that rough rides are an “unsanctioned technique” in which police vans are driven to cause “injury or pain” to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees. rough rides are very much a Real Thing.