CHP Issues Looser Rules On Medical Marijuana
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- CHP Issues Looser Rules On Medical Marijuana
- California Marijuana Seizures Up 20 Percent
- Robberies make medical pot-selling a bust
- Justice Stevens Adds Fuel to the Fire Over the New London Eminent…
CHP Issues Looser Rules On Medical Marijuana
NBC 11.com – Aug 29, 2005
CHP Issues Looser Rules On Medical MarijuanaPOSTED: 1:23 pm PDT August 29,2005UPDATED: 1:48 pm PDT August 29,2005. The new policy, detailed in CHP documents and memos issued last week, discourages CHP officers from confiscating medical marijuana from patients and caregivers who have a valid state or local medical marijuana card or a doctor’s recommendation. The policy states that if the documentation is found to be valid and the amount of marijuana is less than 8 ounces, “the individual is to be released and the marijuana is not to be seized…
Whiteford said, “We revised our policy so that we’re not in conflict with existing state law. “Joseph Elford, a lawyer for six patients and caregivers, said the new policy comes in the wake of a lawsuit the patients and caregivers filed in Alameda County Superior Court last year. The lawsuit charges that because medical marijuana is legal under California’s Compassionate Use Act, the CHP’s former policy violated the patients’ constitutional rights. Elford said, “This new policy signals that California law enforcement must uphold the state medical marijuana law regardless of what the federal government has the desire or the authority to do. “Elford said the lawsuit is still pending, but that the medical marijuana advocates and state lawyers are negotiating to reach a settlement that would make the new policy part of a permanent, court-supervised agreement.
California Marijuana Seizures Up 20 Percent
Officer.com – Aug 29, 2005
(AP) — Agents have seized more than $2. 6 billion worth of marijuana plants this year, already surpassing last year’s season total by 20 percent, authorities said. The state Department of Justice’s annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, or CAMP, is still a month away from wrapping up operations after the season peak at the end of September. The raids, many in remote, forested terrain, pit agents against often heavily armed guards protecting their marijuana plots. About three weeks ago, a grower was shot dead and a state Fish and Game warden was wounded during a raid on a 22,000-plant pot farm in the hills above Los Gatos…
(AP) — Agents have seized more than $2. 6 billion worth of marijuana plants this year, already surpassing last year’s season total by 20 percent, authorities said. The state Department of Justice’s annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, or CAMP, is still a month away from wrapping up operations after the season peak at the end of September. The raids, many in remote, forested terrain, pit agents against often heavily armed guards protecting their marijuana plots. About three weeks ago, a grower was shot dead and a state Fish and Game warden was wounded during a raid on a 22,000-plant pot farm in the hills above Los Gatos. It was the fourth death in a marijuana raid shootout with authorities in the past three years and the first time a law enforcement officer has been shot in CAMP’s 22-year history. » More Stories From.
Robberies make medical pot-selling a bust
San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 29, 2005
“I don’t think this is what the voters had in mind when they passed the medical pot law, but that’s what we’re dealing with,” said Alameda County Sheriff’s Lt. Dale Amaral, whose Eden Township beat includes the 2 square miles of unincorporated land where most of the clubs are. The motivation behind the robberies — big cash and big marijuana. Here’s a summary of the incidents that have occurred in recent months. The first big hit went down on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Compassionate Collective of Alameda County, a medical marijuana club on Mission Boulevard near San Leandro. According to sheriff’s reports, a team of armed hoods busted in, tied up everyone and robbed the place of about $50,000 in cash and an undisclosed amount of “product,” i.
Justice Stevens Adds Fuel to the Fire Over the New London Eminent…
FindLaw – Aug 29, 2005
Raich, the Court upheld the federal law banning the cultivation of marijuana, even as applied to marijuana grown and consumed in California for medicinal purposes pursuant to a state law purporting to make such activity legal. Justice Stevens made clear in his oral remarks–as he had in the Raich opinion itself–that the Court’s decision to uphold the federal law did not mean that he (or the other Justices) thought it was a good idea for the government to ban medical marijuana. But the case did not present the question whether banning medical marijuana is a good idea: the issue was whether Congress has the power to enact such a ban. Seeing no principled way to give a negative answer to that question without thereby undermining Congressional ability to regulate the national economy in the interest of the country as a whole, Justice Stevens reluctantly concluded that the federal marijuana prohibition validly trumped the state authorization for medical marijuana. The Difference Between Undesirable Results and Undesirable Rules Before returning to the Justice’s comments regarding the Kelo case, it is worth drawing an important distinction.