City must relinquish seized medical pot

[cannabis_flower]

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by a California city that asked the justices to overturn a lower court ruling requiring police to return medical marijuana that they seize from a patient.

In the November 2007 ruling, a state appeals court said California's medical marijuana law entitles patients to recover pot wrongfully seized by police.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/02/BAR014FHLG.DTL&tsp=1

[panader0]

1. I hope they've been keeping it fresh!

[daninthemoon]

2. damn, they already smoked it themselves.

[MineralMan]

3. That's refreshing.

[BR_Parkway]

4. Reading through, that seems like a huge development

in favor of the State law:

"It's now settled that state law enforcement officers cannot arrest medical marijuana patients or seize their medicine simply because they prefer the contrary federal law," said Joseph Elford, chief counsel of the advocacy group Americans for Safe Access and lawyer for the plaintiff in the Garden Grove case.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

5. Still no word on prescription wizard bong.