Legal Fund for Shane England - Utah Hemp Farmer

Hemp and Cannabis community,

We must fight again, and we will need as many as can contribute and share to take this as far as necessary to get our rights as citizens to lawfully possess and use hemp in all its forms.

As many of you have heard Shane England, the founder of Great Basin Hemp & Farm Co-op, was arrested on trumped up charges of possession of hemp and DUI while driving back from the Utah Cannabis Career Fair in Salt Lake City. His vehicle, company goods, hemp plant and personal belongings were impounded and are in danger of civil seizure. On top of that he was locked up for two days, even after performing sobriety and urine analysis tests and passing clean all on drug use. The judge gave him a bail of $1630 dollars and he has his first court date on Wednesday, February 19th in Nephi, Utah.

Shane was one of the first farmers to sign up for the career fair and show selfless support for our cannabis community. He had my back when it came to supporting our cause and I'm happy to jump immediately at the opportunity to help him with his cause.  Now is the time to stand with Shane and support his battle that, in the end, will help us all tremendously. 

With some collective public support in this GoFundMe campaign, we can raise legal funds to challenge the criminal charges and the State of Utah as we believe they have acted unlawfully on all counts of arrest and unwarranted search and seizure.

We have lined up a criminal defense lawyer and a civil defense case that will represent all of our civil rights to have, use and consume hemp as we please. 

There are many important points of principle that we must fight for.

·        An free people should be able to make challenging statements about controversial subjects such as legalization of all plant based medicine and unhampered use of any natural remedy. 

·        A state or local law enforcement should never stifle use or distribution of hemp as was voted into law by the people. 

·        A government agency should not silence our rights to grow and process hemp as farmers.

·        Law enforcement must start to reflect a greater diversity of views to include the use of both medical marijuana and medicinal hemp.

 Your donation, great or small, will not just help Shane fund this legal battle, it will also send a powerful message to governments about what the public expect of our public servants. It might well take a couple of months to reach the target. Any remaining funds after legal fees, will be used to provide continuing cannabis education for our law enforcement community. Shane will also have administrative costs, lost wages, and seized property to potentially replace as well.

It is a crazy world that we have to spend funds for legal costs on possessing natural plants, but this is a fight that we have to win because of the principles it represents. Please help us in our legal battle as we fight for everyone involved. This is a team effort and community engagement is crucial. Will you stand with us?

We have little doubt that we will win.