Calif. Judge Orders Police to Return 60 Pounds of Marijuana

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

A Los Angeles judge has ordered that 60 pounds of pot confiscated by the California Highway Patrol during an arrest be returned to the defendant.

Superior Court Judge William Sterling on Friday ordered the marijuana returned to Saguro Doven. The 33-year-old's attorneys successfully argued that he had the legal right to transport it under medical marijuana guidelines issued by state Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Doven's attorney says his client was a member of a Venice-based medical marijuana collective.

more: http://rawstory.com/2010/01/calif-judge-orders-police-return-60-pounds-marijuana/

[FreakinDJ]

1. Bout time - I was kickin it

[laughingliberal]

2. Heh! Wonder how much they have left? nt

[shawcomm]

13. Yep, the cops probably returned 20 pounds of stem.

[robdogbucky]

44. FYI

stems don't weigh anything.

In product harvested, trimmed, dried & ready for consumption, stems are dessicated shells.

In the current milieu they are long discarded when product is ready to be consumed.

They weigh nothing even if they are left in the product. Think of hay, being hollow for the most part, is very light.

Now seeds if present, are a different matter altogether.

I get the joke you were trying to make though. Although I don't think making light of what is essentially a vicious persecution spawned by vested economic interests and supported by police state powers is very funny.

Why did I feel compelled to add that to this on a Sunday morning?


I am going to take a break from the internet myself.

[EFerrari]

3. That's great!

[Vidar]

4. Damn, now they can't afford Ted Nugent for the Policeman's Ball.

[HBravo]

27. Ted Rocks I don't care about his politics. n/t

[AzNick]

28. Same: love his music, just wish he shut his chickenhawk's mouth

That's all

[carla]

33. The Rock and Roll Star

of the Teabaggers and Wingnuts...:headbang: Rock OFF...!!!

[jwirr]

5. Looks like the police may have to learn some new ideas. Maybe we can

get across to them that they are costing the tax payer a bundle when they waste their time and resources to chasing anything to do with maryjane.

[dotymed]

31. My observations;

police all over the country have gone from "protect and serve", to control (usually physically) and add bogus charges." Every time they use force to apprehend (almost always), it is excessive and then they charge the victims with resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer (felony), intimidation of a police officer (felony) and on and on. When I was young, we had some really great public servants as police officers. I am sure there are a few left, unfortunately the laws have changed and now allow, and in many cases encourage, this type of behavior. It seems they are now taught that citizens (except the elite) are their enemies and can be treated as "combatants" at any time. Hell, they "just want to talk to you", and if you do not treat them with honor, they'll grab you and charge you with resisting arrest. How can they do this when they have no legal cause to arrest you in the first place? Really, I have not had any "run-ins" with "the law" for decades, But I am not blind. Anytime I have been stopped by a police person, I treat them with respect, I was raised with the "golden rule", but while most of these people treat us (I am "clean cut") with no respect, i know that if I returned the favor, I would probably be arrested (for no legal reason), and probably be harmed because I resisted. IMO, we have become, and it is only getting worse, a "police-state."

[timtom]

35. Actually, this has more or less always been the case.

A very telling moment in the 1936 Astaire/Rogers flick, "Swing Time," shows a distraught Ginger Rogers calling for a policeman to assist her. She is accusing (wrongly) Fred Astaire of having stolen her quarter from her purse. The policeman observes Astaire, who is wearing formal clothes, with top hat and tails, and says to Rogers, "Does HE look like the sort of person who would steal your quarter? Now run along with ye before I run YOU in." Fred tells the officer that he needn't have addressed the young lady that way, and the officer says, "Look. People like you pay me to protect them from people like that."

Thus, it has always been...

[mdmc]

6. yes.we.cannibis.

[malaise]

8. DUzy

:rofl:

[mdmc]

11. there is nothing new under the sun

[valerief]

25. Ha!

:spray:

[Odin2005]

29. LOL!

You win!

[spanone]

7. thank god Obama called off the feds. this kind of shit is ridiculous

[seeinfweggos]

10. +1

[pleah]

9. K&R

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Imagevision]

14. To bad a link to this story can't reach CHP's top brass

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I LOVE this.

Wonderful!

[Lil Missy]

16. Hope the officers didn't smoke it all.

[valerief]

26. That's the FIRST thing I thought of! nt

[JackInGreen]

39. no pun intended

but dollar to donuts, the evidence is "lost", I've been told time and again by law enforcement (idiotic term, laws should be a matter of protection, not enforcement), and family of law enforcement, cops always have the best weed.
Now how are they going to explain the missing bowls? It's like shorting your supply on what you were consigned, "Where's mah WEED, SMOKEY?"

[slay]

17. The way it should be - almost

He never should have been arrested for transporting A PLANT in the first place but still, a nice step forward towards mainstream acceptance of marijuana - and removal of a power the police should never have had - harassing medical marijuana people. Governments all over the world make tons of money off "illegal drugs" - profiting off the pain and loss of others - just leave the pot smokers alone. :hippie:

[Quantess]

18. evening kick

[Autonomy]

19. Just legalize marijuana. It's time. Enough of this nonsense.

[Enrique]

20. I hope they have to deliver it in person

and that Saguro taunts them and gets it on video.

[bertman]

21. A very interesting and informative read: DRUGS: America's Holy War by Arthur Benavie.

Lots of historical background on the "drugs" that used to be legal and how/why they became illegal. And who benefits most from the illegality.

[jmowreader]

22. The police will never return that sixty pounds of marijuana

Seeing as how they've probably smoked the whole stash by now, they're going to have to either (1) grow this man some new weed, (2) start busting street dealers or (3) make a BIG buy.

[JackInGreen]

40. If they'd just

Ask those nice DEA officers "where's the most local illegal grow?" they could probably go ASK the farmer, and it would be ponied up, as long as there's a guarantee of no prosecution.

[bridgit]

23. ^

:kick:

[winyanstaz]

24. K & R....

I hope the people who are needing that marijuana get it alright.
You know..when my husband was sent home to die within five months of advanced copd.....weighing 97 lbs at 6 ft tall....I knew I had to do something to try to save him. A friend on medical marijuana gave me two brownies..which I served him a little bit at a time for a few days...but..he ate his first meal that first night..and did fine after that.
He got his appetite back and he lived and laughed and loved another 9 years and gained weight back up to 167 before he finally passed away of a heart attack.
I will always be grateful we had those extra nine years and if not for some medical marijuana....we would not have had even a year.
It is a good herb and it helps people. It should not be illegal.

[midnight]

30. What a powerful story. Did you see the movie Saving Grace.... It is a comedy,

and it revolves around the growing of this plant for extra income.. If you have netflicks download it.... It will put a smile on your face....

[GreenMetalFlake]

32. K&R

[Orsino]

34. A bankrupt state really should make up its fucking mind...

...and stop involving private citizens in its legal schizophrenia.

[Christa]

36. Great stuff :)

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking
a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
- Abraham Lincoln, 1855

http://hemptopia.org/Colorado_DTCA_Ban_2010.php

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. love it.

:)

[JackInGreen]

41. Thank you

for the quote, and the info. I had no idea Abe was one of us, CHEERS!

[Christa]

43. Thanks :)

Not to forget:

[rhett o rick]

37. Too bad man, only 59 pds left. .... Hey man, pass the cheetos. nt

[tridim]

42. We're going through similar things in Colorado

A city council recently tried to shut down a dispensary citing federal law. It was immediately overturned in court and the dispensary stayed open.

MMJ is LEGAL in Colorado. Not sort-of legal, LEGAL. I understand this paradigm shift is difficult for some to grasp, it's even a bit difficult for myself (as a legal patient), but local governments need to start following their own constitutions. The law is the law.