Medical marijuana users want OC court order for return of pot
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Medical marijuana users want OC court order for return of pot
San Diego Union Tribune - Aug 24, 2007
Charges against Jim Spray, 51, of Huntington Beach and Felix Cha, 22, of Garden Grove were dropped but police agencies have refused to return the seized marijuana. Americans for Safe Access attorney Joe Elford, who represents Cha and Spray, said the men simply want return of property they lawfully possessed. Cha was arrested in June 2005 after Garden Grove police searched his car during a traffic stop and seized eight ounces of marijuana. Prosecutors dropped the case after contacting Cha’s doctor and a judge ordered return of the marijuana. But Garden Grove appealed to the 4th District Court.
Pro-marijuana group wants to pull initiative in return for city…
Denver Post - Aug 24, 2007
Citizens for a Safer Denver collected more than 10,000 signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot asking voters to make marijuana possession the “lowest law enforcement priority” in Denver. But Thursday the group offered to spike the initiative if the city would agree not to ticket people for marijuana possession during the 2008 Democratic National Convention and state that pot is less harmful that booze. So far, there are no takers. “Absolutely not,” Councilman Charlie Brown said.
News: Appellate court considers medical marijuana seizures by police…
OCRegister - Aug 24, 2007
BY RACHANEE SRISAVASDI The Orange County Register Comments | Recommend If police officers seize marijuana legally kept by a medical marijuana patient, should they have to give the property back? That was the central question Thursday before a three-justice panel of the state’s 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, which heard arguments of two local cases that medical marijuana advocates say reflect a statewide problem: Judges vary in their rulings on whether medical marijuana patients should be given back the drug. Felix Kha of Garden Grove had 8 grams seized from him in June 2005 during a traffic stop. Criminal charges were later dismissed after Kha proved he had a prescription for the drug