Linda Senti, wife of Rev. Eddy Lepp, is a hero of the revolution. She suffered from a doctor misdiagnosed cancer which finally took her life just after Thanksgiving 2007. She lived many years beyond the doctors predictions because of her use of marijuana. She suffered many arrests for her growing and use of marijuana but never gave up the fight to free our Herb from its diabolical persecution. Few have given as much as this noble woman, and all of us are indebted to her for her sacrifices.

A founder of Eddy's Medicianal Gardens and Multi Denominational Ministry of Cannabis and Rastafari, and MDMCR Inc. (a religious non-profit corporation of the state of California), Linda used all her physical resources to bring the knowledge of marijuana the healer and inspirer to all. Her legal work as co-defendant in the federal criminal forfeiture case of growing for 32 thousand marijuana plants on 32 acres of land on Highway 20, Upper Lake, California in 2004, and another 11,000 marijuana plants in February 2005 continue. Her legal work as founder of MDMCR Inc. seeking its injunction to prevent federal and state suppression of our religious establishment and exercise continues unabated. She is missed but will not be forgotten. Her work in the courts will be resolved in our favor and her sacrifices in the last years of her life, in the face of the cancer that finally took her life, will prove fruitfull.

After she suffered the second bust of the church in Upper Lake in February of 2005 for some 11,000 marijuana plants, I spoke to her on the phone. The walls of the home were uncovered insulation, the outer walls of the home still had not been completed, the wood stove was barely keeping heat in the home, her husband Rev. Eddy Lepp was in federal custody and she was unbowed, unbroken, and unrelenting in her quest to withstand the pain of her cancer and the police. She never gave up and told the rest of us to never give up either.

Linda Senti did not live or die in vain.

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