Uniting the Family, Job One After 5 years of separation I am finally able to unite with my wife and three daughters, but everyone is scared and anxious, no one more than me.

I got to experience a kind of rebirth, From the ashes of prison to the cutting edge of the computer revolution all in one week. Life never feels more vital than when the mythical Phoenix of eternal opportunities manifests itself in an entangled perfection, beyond imagining, like did this really happen? The girls?

The reinvention of Clifton Ray Middleton, Reinventing yourself, consciously planning out a new path, preparing for the future and having the time and resources to do it is a rare privilege most people never experience. Circumstances alter cases and sometimes there is no other option.

The trauma of prison is like a very slow moving, derailing, train wreck. The damage keeps piling up. Your family faces poverty and emotional terror. It will be years before you can do anything. Now What?

The Last Dance for this band of warriors was a traumatic entanglement of fear and dread, dread of the inevitable consequences enshrined by a strangely guilty, existential relief that it was done and over. In my low esteem, delusional heart I welcomed the final judgement as a signal of the end. But it wasn’t over it was just beginning.

Your Honor, I call Clifton Ray Middleton to the stand. This is the story of my day in court, taking the stand, claiming my right to have the Ganja, exposing the lies about the herb and declaring my innocence based on Mens Ria, State of Mind.

Deer Island, the Mother of all Busts and the End. In an act of final desperation, we set up a move on Deer Island, Maine. Beautiful for situation it was an ugly trap from the beginning. Getting busted we were used too, but this time was different.

This is the story of how Sister Jackie was called into court for using her house, 43 Star Island as a public nuisance. She took the stand to defend her and our right to have prayer and use marijuana. Her Tribe was being threatened, and like a modern day Esther she confronted the evil administrator who would destroy us; her only defense, prayer, a mystic psalm.

The Indictment, publicity and fame had turned the Star Island into a legal freak show. We called in the big guns, Ramsey Clark to argue the case along with a mob of lawyers. Our goal was nothing less than the total demolition of all laws against marijuana paving the way for a spiritual revival dreamed of by all faiths.

60 Minutes and Dan Rather blew the lid off just how wild the Coptics really were, triggering the Show Trial of Times.