Needless Victims

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Ten month old Lilly Fisher has been in CPS custody since April when her father requested their help rescuing her from an extremely unsafe situation while in the care of her mother. After learning of Billy’s medical marijuana use, CPS demanded that he attend a month long impatient rehab program, and then a two year outpatient program before they will consider allowing him to raise his daughter.

CPS is blatantly disregarding provisions written into Washington’s medical marijuana laws to protect parental rights. Billy is scared the system is going to steal his daughter, which is why he is asking you to donate $1 or $2 towards the $5,000 retainer fee he needs for a lawyer and to please share this video in every way you can.

The state is already talking about Lilly’s “adoptabilty,” since Billy refuses to attend a dependency treatment program. Under their demands, Billy would need to return to extensive use of prescription pain medicines in order to ease the pain from his degenerative disk disease and the resulting pinched nerves. At least:

  • 40 mg methodone
  • 10 mg vicodin
  • 10 mg soma
  • All 4 x a day

Speaking from personal experience, Billy knows he will be far worse off to care for his family while on prescription pain medications. At one point, he couldn’t even get out of bed to comfort his sister when her son had died.

It is time for the system to change. He’s become quite the activist since his ordeal began, but the state even wants to use that against him, threatening to make him stop because “his activities put his daughter at risk.” But he’s not backing down. Billy and his girlfriend Serra Frank, a founding member of Moms for Marijuana who is also featured in the video, are becoming intertwined with a large network of people fighting CPS harassment of medical marijuana patients. They work hard to raise awareness and support at local cannabis events, pushing around an empty stroller with a picture of Lilly inside. They do not plan to stop their crusade once their personal battle is over, but before they can tackle the system Lilly needs to be home, in the care of her family and not her 84 year old foster parent who is himself heavily medicated on prescription drugs.

Their next court date is on October 3rd in front of a Superior Court Judge who has the authority to end this battle on the spot. As Billy said, they “need a lawyer that can go in and fight for Lilly…go in and get my daughter home. That’s the most important thing right now.

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