Master P and The Ice Cream Shop celebrate the life of Louisiana man Fate Vincent Winslow who was sentenced to life in prison for $20 worth of marijuana. Percy Miller says, “This life sentence should have been reduced a long time ago. Even though he was released in 2020, he died in 2021. We have to make sure that this injustice doesn’t happen to more people. We need to increase awareness, help educate our culture and help prepare the imprisoned for freedom.” Anyone who is incarcerated for a small amount of cannabis and is fighting this injustice still, we want to help them gain their freedom back.”

Cannabis legalization has become more and more widespread, over 60k cannabis related convictions have been reduced or fully dismissed in California, where cannabis is legal. As of 2021, 34 states have decriminalized cannabis, eliminating the risk of jail time for possession of small amounts. In states where cannabis is still illegal, a person arrested for cannabis can end up with a permanent criminal record (read more)

Births On This Day – May 20

  • 1972 Busta Rhymes

    American Rapper

  • 1971 Tony Stewart

    American race car driver

  • 1946 Cher

    American singer-songwriter, actress, producer, director

  • 1944 Joe Cocker

    English singer-songwriter

  • 1915 Moshe Dayan

    Israeli general, politician, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Israel)

  • 1799 Honoré de Balzac

    French author, playwright

1983 “Every Breath You Take” single released by The Police

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Released in 2011

24 YEARS AGO - MASTER P "BOUT IT SOUNDTRACK" RELEASED

Historic Events on 5.20

1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea

1609 Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe

1862 US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900)

1864 Spotsylvania campaign in US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured

1927 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St Louis (1st non-stop flight)

1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain in the Treaty of Jeddah

1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space

520: Chinese Day For Love

5/20 CANNABIS FREEDOM DAY (PART 1)

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As the United States moves away from the criminalization of cannabis, giving rise to a major new industry, there remains the fundamental injustice inflicted upon those who have suffered criminal convictions and the consequences of those convictions. Through intervention, advocacy, and awareness campaigns the Last Prisoner Project will work to redress the past and continuing harms of these unjust laws and policies. (FIND OUT MORE) 

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