ScheerPost
January 15, 2025 – While cannabis has grown into a $33.6 billion business, with cannabis restaurants, lounges and dispensaries sprouting up around the country and cannabis legalized in 24 states for recreational use and 39 states for medical use, Edwin Rubis, 56, a father of three sons, is serving his 27th year of a 40-year sentence for a nonviolent charge of conspiracy to distribute cannabis. His release date is 2031.
Rubis was 29 when he was arrested by agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency in 1998, after having transported cannabis for drug dealers in order to pay off his debt to them for his addiction. Since then, he has helped parent his three sons from behind bars, earned three college degrees including his master’s degree, began pursuing a PhD in religious studies, became a devout Christian, and mentored others who are incarcerated with him.
A4J Faculty Director Erik Luna is quoted in this article from ScheerPost.