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VictorVIcious · #**161** 08-10-2008, 06:54 AM

Legal pot backer sees pluses for state, businesses - OregonLive.com
Update on Oregon VV

Kassidy · #**162** 08-23-2008, 07:25 AM

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A Fort Collins couple is planning to sue the city and Larimer County for more than $200,000 after police officers destroyed their 39 marijuana plants two years ago.

Last year in court, James and Lisa Masters successfully showed that city police illegally seized their plants following a raid at their home on Aug. 2, 2006. Judge James Hiatt in December ordered the city to return the seized pot plants, which by then were dead.

The Masters say they use the marijuana for medicinal reasons, growing some for their personal use, and dispensing the rest to other people registered under the state's medical marijuana law.

And they say that state law, enshrined in the state Constitution as Amendment 20, required the government to maintain their plants.

“The Masters suffer from debilitating medical conditions that were made worse by the stress of this lengthy case,” their lawyer, Rob Corry Jr., wrote in a letter to the city and county declaring plans to sue. “Their valuable medical marijuana was taken away and killed in violation of Colorado law.”

City and county officials say federal law requires them to destroy the plants, or at the very least not care for them.

The case could end up having statewide implications, by forcing a judge to decide whether the state or federal law takes precedence.

For James Masters, however, it has much more important considerations. Lisa has been hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening blood disorder that may be related to the fibromyalga for which she uses marijuana. That medical care has cost the family more than $600,000, James Masters said.

“It’s been a real struggle, but we’re not giving up on it,” he said this week. “I’ve committed my life to this.”

The couple used the federal government's estimates of what marijuana is worth to settle on the approximately $202,000 they are seeking, or $5,200 per plant.

Fort Collins couple to sue city over $200,000 worth of dead marijuana plants | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan,

VictorVIcious · #**163** 08-23-2008, 09:12 AM

this is an important case, they always take the plants, then wait to find out if they have a reason to keep them, by then they are dead and they have no value. Totally righteous suit. VV

mockingbird131313 · #**164** 08-24-2008, 04:47 PM

I have always thought that Colorado cops are morons and thugs. This case reaffirms my negative opinion.

ViRedd · #**165** 08-24-2008, 04:56 PM

"City and county officials say federal law requires them to destroy the plants, or at the very least not care for them."

These "city and county officials" need to look at their paychecks to see who signs them. If they look, they'll find that they are not signed by the Treasury Department, but signed by the city or county treasurer. With that in mind, why are they citing federal law?

Vi

VictorVIcious · #**166** 08-25-2008, 07:00 AM

ASA*:*Medical Marijuana Employment Rights Bill Passes Both California Houses
Medical marijuana Patients in Cali need to follow up on this. VV

VictorVIcious · #**167** 08-26-2008, 06:32 AM

I have NPR on and they are talking about a grow bust of 200 plants at the Mall Of America??? VV

Kassidy · #**168** 08-27-2008, 07:06 PM

yup,

here u go

Quote:

MIAMI — The Mall of the Americas in Miami was home to a business not usually found among the food courts, retail stores and movie theaters of similar locations: a hydroponic nursery with more than 200 marijuana plants.
Federal agents seized the plants on Friday. The grow operation was found deep in a storeroom at the mall. Authorities say the growers used the mall's electricity to power their equipment, adding the flimsy wiring could have caused a fire.
Agents would not say how the drugs were found, and no arrests have been made.

Marijuana plants found growing at Miami's Mall of the Americas : Police : TCPalm

VictorVIcious · #**169** 08-27-2008, 08:23 PM

That is funny as a rubber crutch on a cow. Lmfao. VV

VictorVIcious · #**170** 09-27-2008, 09:28 PM

Aging with a drug habit -- dailypress.com
As far as I am concerned the ONDCP and The NIDA caused this problem by insisting that any trace of marijuana in your system, and it can be there for as long as six weeks, means you use it equal abuse, equals off the team. These other drugs, and what they don't mention in this article, can result in death, but they are out of your system in a few days. Take it on Friday night after the game, if your alive you could have a clean test by Tuesday.
The next time someone says there are better prescription drugs out there and we don't need Medical marijuana, tell them about my nephew, Ted, he was 27, 1/2 of my age then. He died from an overdose of prescription drugs, that had been prescribed for him for years. Notice the radio commercials now saying you don't have to kick you opiate dependancy by yourself, isn't that special. And John Walters expressed suprise, he created this mess, trying to get revenge on the hippies. Some people still blame the protests against the Vietnam war for making us lose the war. Maybe these two brances of the same tree should communicate with each other. Whinnywalter says marijuana is the cause of all of the drug problems. It couldn't be the greed of the drug companies, they only sell legal drugs, prescribed by your doctor, taken by you, and anyone else that can get in your medicine cabinet. Monitored by no one, ask Rush Limbaugh about that. It's not that they think you will be able to take the drugs responsibly, this system is an attempt to keep them from being legally responsible for the addiction they helped foster.
If a Doctor prescribes a drug for you and doesn't monitor it properly he should be held criminally responsible, in this information age the drug company should have to monitor it as well. Instead they give you a website and make funny jokes about that little pink pill actually having a name and an attaboy for knowing you take FIVE prescriptions a month. If Joe Camel was an attempt to get yong people hooked on nicotine what are the fugging drug commercials about?? If I take there fugging drugs I'll get a Mustang Convertible, four fit males friends, a wife older than mine and a sailboat, its a real nice boat too. My wife saw a new one last night, said I would have to start taking that one, the were in a foreign country and the grey haired man bought her a new purse, I've never bought her a new purse, turns out she would have to be the one taking the drug, she doesn't want a new purse that bad.

We simply have to use this information to go on offense, the current system is making real addicts of our young people, and the DRUG CZAR is suprised. I am appalled. VV

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