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Couple Arrested for Hibiscus Plant Takes Case to Federal Court
The Cramers filed a lawsuit claiming that the officers violated their civil rights by using excessive force.
February 2, 2018
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The Cramers filed a lawsuit claiming that the officers violated their civil rights by using excessive force.
individuals still face all the same criminal penalties including up to six months in jail and a lasting criminal record.
The Nationawide Mutual insurance agent thought the plants were weed and sent the photographs to the police.
The District Attorney of San Diego has signaled that her DA’s office will be decriminalizing marijuana cultivation
The problem is that the saliva test cannot determine impairment, only the existence of a substance in saliva and just because the test may be positive, it doesn’t mean the person is impaired.
At least 3,000 pounds (elbows ;) of pot were removed from the warehouse where 16 people were working to dry the marijuana plants and get them ready for sale.
The ACLU filed the suit in 2015 on behalf of University of Denver law student Aaron Malin. The student wanted records pertaining to violations of drug task forces in Missouri’s drug war.
Law enforcement agents seized both cash and marijuana plants in the raid. They also seized other marijuana products including concentrates and edibles.
A Kansas couple will finally see their day in court after years of rulings and appeals stemming from a 2012 SWAT-like raid that only turned
81-year-old Margaret Holcomb’s home and land was raided by the Massachusetts National Guard and State Police, according the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The crime? Growing a
By Phillip Smith The killing of a young, black, unarmed Tampa man by a SWAT team that raided his home in an operation that turned
A recent report released from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) noted a decline in seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops throughout 2015, according
Sixty-five percent of Americans ages 18 and older believe that “government efforts to enforce marijuana laws cost more than they are worth” and 55 percent
PORTLAND, Maine — Veteran Maine policy advocate Alysia Melnick has joined Yes on 1, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, as its political director.
CALIFORNIA – The group, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) recently announced their endorsement of California’s Adult Use of Marijuana Act. The initiative will be on the
A pilot program allowing the Michigan State Police and special Drug Recognition Experts to administer a roadside test to detect the presence of THC in
By Phillip Smith Last Friday, more than a hundred Danish police swept into Copenhagen’s hippy enclave of Christiania to attack the hash and weed sellers
By Phillip Smith Police, including DEA agents, raided five properties associated with a well-known medical marijuana products manufacturer in Northern California’s Sonoma County Wednesday morning,
On the morning of June 15th Law Enforcement Officials raided six facilities associated with Care By Design (CBD), a provider of high quality and desirable
Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General completed a performance audit of the LEIN administration in April of 2016; of the three target objectives, two were scored
By Phillip Smith At least seven people were killed by police doing drug law enforcement last month. Four were armed and two of them engaged
Last week the Toronto Police Department raided dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries as part of ‘Project Claudia.’ The raids were a huge waste of money.
Yesterday, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary unanimously approved asset forfeiture reform legislation. Known as the DUE PROCESS Act (H.R. 5283) and sponsored by
In a recent survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, a startling 10 percent of adults living in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties said