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tokinGLX

(i just got back home, so bear with me as this is a compilation of a couple other quick posts i had already made on another forums)

yesterday a friend of mine went in to court. he ended up pleading guilty to possession of 8 or more ounces of marijuana, and is now serving a sentence of 15 days in jail. the good news is that all other charges were dropped and the judge ordered the return of all evidence seized, including all grow supplies, a laptop and a desktop computer, pipes, bongs, bubbles, misc smoking devices and a vaporizer as well as the marijuana and plants that were taken. yup, thats right, the marijuana that just earned this man a felony conviction is now being judge ordered to be given back to him.

the story on trying to get it back, well, that all goes about as smoothly as one would expect(yeah, the cops(and da), they werent too happy about it and stalled as much as possible. but that is a long story, im not on my computer right now(i hate laptops) and i have a bunch of other things to do at this moment, so it will be told another time.

this is the second time in the past year in this state that the court has ordered ALL items to be returned to the patients as covered under the current state medical marijuana law


a little more on what happened, when we went to pick up his stuff, we showed them(at the police station) the court order that said he was entitled to his belongings. they played hardball, said that they needed a faxed official court order from the courthouse. we went to the courthouse and the clerk said the paper my friend had in his hands was the official cort order, signed by the judge and all.
return to cops and now they are MUCH more willing to comply with us. 45 minutes of waiting later they come out and say that the da is not willing to consent to the court order, they say that they will allow everything BUT the marijuana and the plants. because the schedule of my friends lawyer was so busy, he was unable to attend this property transfer and had been in court on the other side of the state all morning. when he got word of what was happening, he was fumed and awhile later the cops come out with a revised order saying that my friend can get some of the marijuana back, but they(the cops) had ABSOLUTELY no idea how much my friend was entitled to legally have under state law. we explained the law to them, they said it doesnt matter what we tell them, we had to give them printed proof of the law in order to release his medicine. (how often do you hear law enforcement tell you 'ignorance is no excuse'......)
we told them that we could show them in under 2 minutes if they would let us show them on a computer with internet access, that was met with some **** excuse. we told them the number to call and who to ask at the state health department, that was met with some **** excuse. so we went home, got high, called the lady at the state health department and had her fax the documents to the cops. went back and now they were very, very eager to complete the transfer and get it over with. but of course, that went about as well as one would expect it would....cops with pot, and every little thing with thc(vaporized remains of pot) choosing what to give back to the patient. the law states that a patient can have 2 ounces of dried marijuana, so they gave hi'm one ounce of good usable medicine, and one ounce of the spent vapeash.
my friend was very busy that day(he was planning on surrendering himself to start the sentence later that day) so he didnt want to sit around and argue with them about how worthless the vapeash was, so he just smiled and left.
i got all of this on video, by the way, hopefully it will be compiled and uploaded shortly.
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here is the story that made it on page one of the local newspaper
Craig Daily Press / Judge orders medical marijuana returned to Craig man

and here is a clip of the cops actually giving his marijuana back

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beezleb878

Toke on, my next draw is for you all.

mufasa5446

I've never heard of the marijuana being returned. That's amazing. Can't wait to see the video of it all.

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RookieSmoker

That's awesome man. I know if that was me dealing with the cops in that situation, and I had a signed order from a judge, and they pulled all that I'd honestly raise hell over it, but I guess that's just me, I'm not a patient man.
But yeah, congrats on getting those 2 ounces back, smoking it, you should feel especially high.

troublemaker_42

I honestly didn't realize until I was there over 4/20 weekend just how "weed-friendly" Colorado is. Compared to SD....well, the two aren't even comparable. In SD, mj is an arrestabl;e offense, regardless of amount. In Co, its a petty offense with a max $100 fine. In SD, headshops are nonexistent. Yet, over 4/20 weekend, I hit 5 in Ft Collins, and one in Boulder. Grow shops are again, nonexistant in SD, yet the one we visited seemed very weed friendly, with a huge bowl of candyu on the counter, reggae playing in the background, an obvious "stoner" working the reister, and a 15% "Holiday discount" on 4/20!!! Due to an unforeseen circumstance, I eneded up with a week of vacation time I couldn't reschedule and the plans I had feel through. While disappointing, it took us only a few hours to decide we were headed back to Colorado fopr a week, just so we could be ourselves and relax for a week!! Colorado kicks ass!!!

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Subversive

Hmm, I'm liking Colorado more and more. I'll probably be moving there if/when I ever move out of my state.

Cheeba16

Lucky you for getting your weed back, that would never fly in NH where I'm from.

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