Eugene Fischer: A Personal Hero
A couple of days ago I was asked to write a memorial for a personal hero and man I would like to call brother in arms despite never having met each other. It is with a heavy heart that I have to write this now, for the greatest man ever arrested for pot, Eugene Fischer.
Arrested at age 47 after 5 years of running what would be known as the largest marijuana operation of it it's time, Eugene had his first fight and lost; The battle of Eugene Fischer vs. The United States Government. His next battle was his more important one, the stuff that Hollywood movies are based on. In 2012 after serving 25 years in prison, Eugene won his freedom and was on a mission to help all his brothers and sisters locked up for pot. That's what the world looked like through his eyes—everyone was his brother (or sister).
I met Eugene when he was volunteering for The Human Solution International. There, every Sunday he would co-host telling his stories and bonding with fellow drug war prisoners like …show more content…
Here they continued the efforts of ending the drug war by bringing the greatest weapon, HOPE. Hope to prisoners already locked up, hope for those in the industry for if anything happens to them, hope that there are others out there that think like you do that you are not alone, instead it's 'WE'. We want justice, so we can have peace.
Eugene Fischer is a name many don't know but should. To me this man has been a hero, a guiding light to so many when there seems to be a horrible darkness around us. Eugene stood against the horrible machine known as prohibition, not just for his and many other's personal freedom but for a social balance which would mean less deaths of minorities and police alike. The failed War on Drugs has real prisoners and victims, and they're all
Arrested at age 47 after 5 years of running what would be known as the largest marijuana operation of it it's time, Eugene had his first fight and lost; The battle of Eugene Fischer vs. The United States Government. His next battle was his more important one, the stuff that Hollywood movies are based on. In 2012 after serving 25 years in prison, Eugene won his freedom and was on a mission to help all his brothers and sisters locked up for pot. That's what the world looked like through his eyes—everyone was his brother (or sister).
I met Eugene when he was volunteering for The Human Solution International. There, every Sunday he would co-host telling his stories and bonding with fellow drug war prisoners like …show more content…
Here they continued the efforts of ending the drug war by bringing the greatest weapon, HOPE. Hope to prisoners already locked up, hope for those in the industry for if anything happens to them, hope that there are others out there that think like you do that you are not alone, instead it's 'WE'. We want justice, so we can have peace.
Eugene Fischer is a name many don't know but should. To me this man has been a hero, a guiding light to so many when there seems to be a horrible darkness around us. Eugene stood against the horrible machine known as prohibition, not just for his and many other's personal freedom but for a social balance which would mean less deaths of minorities and police alike. The failed War on Drugs has real prisoners and victims, and they're all