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Star Member Tanuki (8,588 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212205635DUer "Fly by night" is the subject of award-winning documentary "The Blueberry Farmer"He hasn't posted lately but many here will remember Bernie Ellis, a.k.a. DUer "Fly by night." He is the subject of a documentary that is making the rounds of film festivals and has picked up some awards along the way. https://theblueberryfarmer.com/about-blueberry-farmer-film/ ...."Nashville press once called him “Tennessee’s favorite felon.” He has endeared himself to hundreds of people in his community over the years that have come to know his story and love him. When he asked people he knew to step forward and write a letter on his behalf for his court case to restore citizenship rights, hundreds did so including the owner of the local town diner and the county sheriff. Bernie was bush hogging a pasture in 2002 when he noticed a helicopter circling above him. When it lowered to just over the treetops in a tight circle, he knew his life was about to change forever. Trace View farm was raided by the police that day and over one hundred mostly small cannabis plants were confiscated as evidence by the police. For almost 15 years, Bernie had been growing medical marijuana. Besides using it himself for his own ailments, including a degenerative spine and fibromyalgia, he was providing it for free to terminal AIDS and Cancer patients that he knew or who were referred to him. Turns out, Bernie knew a lot of them. He worked, before his arrest, for the Tennessee Department of Health and then the CDC, setting up Tennessee’s AIDS program during the height of the epidemic. He knew a lot of people that were dying and suffering and he also knew pot could help them. After he admitted growing medical cannabis, Bernie went from earning over $100,000 per year in his field to living on food stamps unable to find work with an arrest record. Through it all, Bernie stayed sober after battling his own addiction to alcohol and instead of giving up, he reinvented himself as an organic blueberry farmer. As you enjoy a meal at many of Nashville’s fine dining establishments this summer, Bernie’s blueberries will probably be on the dessert menu."....(more)
Star Member hlthe2b (69,402 posts) 1. I've been wondering about him. This is wonderful. I hope he might check in with us!He's one of our best!
Star Member handmade34 (16,850 posts) 6. thanks...I wrote a letter to the President on his behalf
Star Member MagickMuffin (9,216 posts) 8. I look forward to Fly by Night's true to life documentarySometimes when people do the right thing which turns into the wrong thing because of the wrong reasons then you know you are on the right side of karma. to Bernie, glad you bounced back from the trauma you had to endure!!!
Star Member Tanuki (8,588 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212205635DUer "Fly by night" is the subject of award-winning documentary "The Blueberry Farmer"He hasn't posted lately but many here will remember Bernie Ellis, a.k.a. DUer "Fly by night." He is the subject of a documentary that is making the rounds of film festivals and has picked up some awards along the way. https://theblueberryfarmer.com/about-blueberry-farmer-film/ ...."Nashville press once called him “Tennessee’s favorite felon.” He has endeared himself to hundreds of people in his community over the years that have come to know his story and love him. When he asked people he knew to step forward and write a letter on his behalf for his court case to restore citizenship rights, hundreds did so including the owner of the local town diner and the county sheriff. Bernie was bush hogging a pasture in 2002 when he noticed a helicopter circling above him. When it lowered to just over the treetops in a tight circle, he knew his life was about to change forever. Trace View farm was raided by the police that day and over one hundred mostly small cannabis plants were confiscated as evidence by the police. For almost 15 years, Bernie had been growing medical marijuana.
They really need to start calling it magic MJ in place of the medical MJ as it sold to be the cure for everything. What exactly is the difference between medical MJ and regular over the counter MJ and why do they need both?
