Casey William Hardison (aka: Casey Freeblood) is currently serving a 20 year sentence in the Swaleside Federal Prison, near Kent, United Kingdom. We need your help to raise funds to pay for Casey's lawyers (called Solicitors and Barristers in the UK) and legal research efforts to develop and file his appeal case. Casey is determined to get out of prison before 2012! You Can Help!
Casey Hardison is an entheogenic activist, unauthorized researcher and psychedelic chemist who is best known for his indefatigable good mood and enormous energy. Casey attended entheogen-related conferences, wrote articles for MAPS and contributed to Erowid. After moving to Britain in 2002 he eventually rented a house at Ovingdean near Brighton. Casey chose to fulfill a ten-year spiritual journey to make LSD and make up for the drought caused by a major DEA bust in the United States. He was arrested and convicted of LSD manufacture in Britain.
Casey acted as his own lawyer during his case and, instead of arguing he did not commit the acts, he argued that, as long as he harmed no one, he had the human right to engage in his chosen entheogenic praxis. The court rejected the argument and Casey was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Apr 22, 2005.
Casey has submitted his human rights arguments simultaneously to the European Court of Human Rights and to the House of Lords, the highest court of appeal in the United Kingdom. He is challenging the drug laws as a discriminatory affront to free thought, therapeutic choice and free religion.
Casey's June 2006 appeal was unsuccessful and he continues to work through the British system to legally question the basis of his imprisonment. In early 2007, the Secretary of State formally opposed Casey's request for Judicial Review and Casey replied in March 2007 (see Reply to Secretary of State's Defence CM 6941)
His mailing address in prison is: Casey Hardison LH5330, HMP Swaleside, Brabazon Road, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, ME12 4AX, England.
20-08-2007, 12:45
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