With a CO-OPdeprave informs me that it is fully within my rights as a michigan patient to grow 154 plants at once and sell them. if that's true, i'm moving to michigan.
just need to make sure i'm allowed to grow and sell 154 plants first though.
so i'm not allowed to grow and sell 154 plants?With a CO-OP
YOU YOURSELF CAN HAVE 72 MAX
what if i'm a convicted felon and don't have a co-op? is it still cool if i grow 154 plants and sell them?With two other caregivers who have 5 patients each yes, you could have 180 at one location but that is against federal law.
why? deprave says it's all good.You are certainly setting yourself up to be visited by the DEA with that many plants.
Obama doesnt.why? deprave says it's all good.
why? deprave says it's all good.
Obama doesnt.
[h=2]Federal conviction shocks marijuana grower[/h]
Story by Ray Kisonas
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A Summerfield Township man convicted in federal court of distributing marijuana says he was compliant under state laws and was shocked by the verdict and is planning to appeal.
Gerald Lee Duval Jr., 52, and his son, Jeremy, 30, face years in prison after their convictions on four felony charges in U.S. District Court. Mr. Duval told The Evening News that his case was the first of its kind because the family operation was legitimate under Michigan law.
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was involved in the investigation, so the case was tried in federal court, which views marijuana as a schedule 1 controlled substance. There are no federal medicinal marijuana laws.
“This is a nightmare,” Mr. Duval said. “This is costing me everything I own. This is a complete nightmare.”
Mr. Duval says he has been targeted for years. He said he never was a distributor but his two adult children were legally licensed to sell marijuana to card-holders. His son, Jeremy, and daughter, Ashley, 27, were allowed to grow 72 plants each for their five patients. His daughter was never charged.
“I never distributed to anyone,” Mr. Duval said. “But I had a right to possess and grow 12 plants.”
Mr. Duval said two greenhouses on the family farm off Ida Center Rd. were compliant with state law. He said fences were installed around the greenhouses and the state-issued licenses were made visible.
“It was legal,” he said. “Michigan law says you can grow it, possess it and distribute it. We were 100 percent legal.”
However, a jury found the two guilty of conspiracy to manufacture more than 100 marijuana plants, manufacturing marijuana plants with intent to distribute and maintaining a place to distribute marijuana under federal law.
Rodel B. Babasa, special agent in charge at the DEA’s Toledo office, said the two had their day in court and were convicted by a jury.
“The record stands for itself,” Mr. Babasa said.
Mr. Duval, who is a convicted felon, faces 10 years in prison while his son could be sent away for five years, a possibility that he said was “scary.” Jeremy Duval’s attorney, Thomas Lavigne of Detroit, said he is appealing the verdicts and filing a motion to keep the men out of jail until the appeal is granted.
Mr. Lavigne, an expert on marijuana laws, said the case was the first of its kind because even when medicinal marijuana growers and suppliers are compliant with state law, they can be charged federally. The state had 200,000 card-carrying medicinal marijuana users and suppliers and anyone could be targeted, Mr. Lavigne said.
“It’s really one of those shell games,” he said. “That was the unique aspect of this case; they were convicted even though they were fully compliant under state law. We were shocked.”
Mr. Duval, who suffers from diabetes, said fighting the case has cost him the family farm and he has accrued $150,000 in attorney fees. He said he believed the operation was legal but he and his son now face prison because it was illegal under federal law.
“This is really a screwed-up law,” he said.
If you are a convicted felon you are not allowed to be a CG in MI, you can only a patient. The most you would be able to grow is 12 plants for yourself.
i guess deprave just wants to gloss over the fact that the dude growing 154 plants was a convicted felon.Case I cited as an example: http://m.monroenews.com/news/2012/may/02/federal-conviction-shocks-marijuana-grower/
I am sure you all remember that one well.
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i guess deprave just wants to gloss over the fact that the dude growing 154 plants was a convicted felon.
what was the name of their co-op? felonious acres?"He said he believed the operation was legal but he and his son now face prison because it was illegal under federal law."
OMGZ CALL IN THE FEDS THEIR PLANTS ARE TOO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!