Jonathan Wall received an 8-year federal prison sentence for marijuana trafficking conspiracy, despite no violence and no hard drugs being involved in his operation.
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Wall arrives in Santa Cruz — a natural hub for cannabis culture — and immediately begins building connections through the skateboarding world. He invests in greenhouses up in Boulder Creek and a 50-light mansion grow in San Francisco, partnering with talented growers in profit-sharing arrangements where he handles distribution. The pre-Prop 64 medical system means all you need is a binder full of 'patients' — a real database, but one none of the cannabis actually reaches. A lawyer charges per patient and the fiction protects grows from police count. Wall reflects that the cannabis he grew in California was often sold locally to brokers, minimizing risk — the real profits came from out-of-state shipments, which he viewed as startup capital to eventually go fully legitimate.
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