Cops must return plants

[mull]

Give them some community service hours as well

[iamnotacop]

^^^ Maybe working in the local Community Garden, to learn how to look after plants properly.

[Al B. Fuct]

This is one of those absolutely delicious stories, chockers full of irony & instant karma knocking the cops about the head.

 

The absurd cop-pricing is going to come back and bite the Ft Collins cops very hard. That's the very yummiest part of this tale. Cops will go to court, claiming what you & I already know (and as Tom has specifically mentioned), which is that most indoor plants ain't worth anywhere near $3-4000. Can you say... 'hypocrisy' and 'case law precedent'?

 

The American House of Cards of cannabis prohibition thus begins to fall....

 

Great stuff.

[iamnotacop]

I wonder which copper is going to have to go in and buy a 2 foot bong that they broke on them too. It will have to be replaced as well.

[Al B. Fuct]

Here's another, but not a live plant seizure.

 

Court Orders Police to Return Marijuana

 

By REBECCA CATHCART

Published: November 30, 2007

 

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 — A California appeals court has ordered the police in Garden Grove to return marijuana that was seized from a man during a routine traffic stop, ruling that enforcement of federal drug laws did not supersede the state’s allowance of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

 

The man, Felix Kha, had a doctor’s prescription for the marijuana, which he used for the treatment of chronic pain.

 

In the ruling issued Wednesday, a three-judge panel from the state’s Fourth District Court of Appeals cited constitutional principles of federalism and power-sharing between state and national governments in ordering the marijuana returned. California law allows for the prescription and possession of medical marijuana in amounts of less than eight ounces.

 

Police officers pulled over Mr. Kha in Garden Grove, south of Los Angeles, in 2005 for running a stop sign. When they asked him if he was in possession of any illegal substances, Mr. Kha, now 22, said he had marijuana prescribed to him by a doctor. Officers seized the marijuana, about a quarter of an ounce, and cited Mr. Kha for possession of marijuana and a traffic violation.

 

Mr. Kha pleaded guilty to running the stop sign and asked the judge for the return of his marijuana. After hearing proof of the authenticity of the doctor’s note, he was given permission to retrieve the marijuana.

 

But the Garden Grove Police Department refused to return it when Mr. Kha presented them with the court order, said his lawyer, Joe Elford of Americans for Safe Access, a group that advocates medicinal uses of marijuana.

 

“He had to go to court three times to get this order,” Mr. Elford said. “When the police have no probable cause to believe that people are violating state law, they shouldn’t be seizing their medical marijuana or citing them.”

 

I'm on the lookout for other stories where live plants have been seized, the plants are ordered returned and in the meantime, the arrogant cops have simply let them die.

 

Yep, the US cops are going to have to set up grow ops to maintain plants... and some green-thumbs to do the work. Any applicants?

[Pam]

I wonder how many years a law has to be in effect before cops will give up!

[torture]

I wonder how many years a law has to be in effect before cops will give up!

 

 

Until their federal government decides to get rid of their dumbass laws. The cops will keep trying... i wouldnt doubt that for a second.