Maine DEA Busts Legal Medical Marijuana Patients

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me8980109

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Yup, early last week the Maine DEA along with the state police raided a patients grow in New Vineyard. There were 3 patients growing in one location with a total of 16 plants (2 below the state legal limit of 6 each). They confiscated all the plants, equipment, and seedlings.

The next day the raided another legal patient and seized 6 mature plants, seedlings, and equipment. Later they returned and gave back the 6 mature plants keeping everything else.

In neither case were any charges filed. All patients had the correct paperwork to support their grow, if they didn't they would have been charged and plants would not have been removed and returned. Maine has just passed and implemented it's medical marijuana program which includes dispensaries. They removed any possibility of patients remaining unregistered. And now they target legal patients in direct contradiction to the US Attorney Generals letter addressing the DEA and targeting legal patients nad caregivers.

They can go suck a fat one!
 
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Sorry to say it but there is NO surprise here....pretty much what I expected if you read some of my earlier posts....those that didnt want the law passed are doing EVERYTHING they can to keep it as hard and scary as possible.


BTW isnt there a provision in the law for the prosecution of LE officials concerning unlawful search and seizure? Or did that get raped by the committee too? This law is a joke, next ballot initiative should be for complete legalization, dont give them the chance to screw us again.

Like I said before, I feel safer "underground" than registering. In 2 decades I havent had a problem, I have a feeling that if I register I'll be having a visit from the cops within 2 weeks.I dont need that shit.
 
cannatari

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The same kind of crap was happening in Cali for the first couple of years after Prop. 215. Cops were busting old ladies for cultivation! It's just the same ass-hole game that they play to scare people. They have all intentions of not pressing charges and returning confiscated items. They're just looking to scare people because they pick and choose what they think is right regardless of what is law. Cops can't stand the idea of democracy. They need to figure out that if they want our respect, they have to respect the people. This kind of cop behavior isn't just an attack on a few patients, it's an attack on all voters. "We (cops) don't care what laws you voted into legislation." is what they convey by these type of actions and their salaries should not be funded by tax dollars because they have no respect for the law that they "uphold".

At least no children or pets were killed this time.
 
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Agree completely with cannatari! It's going to take a while to get the cops to relax a bit and stop fucking with everyone. Trouble is some people don't really need to exposure that this brings, it's even worse when you consider that the exposure you get is over a legal grow.
 
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I gotta agree with cannatari. I am supposed to get my card in June but I think it will only let them know where I live and its such a small place if there is any heat everyone will know. I think I will just stay underground.
 
clasonde

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the day before it got passed in November, my caregiver got raided by the local police because they knew of his previous marijuana charges on his record. also there have been multiple people, where i live, that have MS and are getting pulled over right after they pick up their meds, and the police are taking away their medicine and calling their doctors to scare them out of prescribing medical marijuana. my caregiver also got pulled over for having a "loud tail pipe", and they arrested him for having mother plants in his truck, impounded his car, as well as his new puppy, and even went as far as beating the shit out of him. he now has a permanent ringing in his ear, broken wrist, and numerous bruised ribs. luckily he has a good lawyer and apparently a lot of it happened at the police station on camera. i also forgot to mention he got pulled over in the next town over by his town's local police officer.

why do the police always suck?
 
clasonde

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hes been on WCSH 6 twice now discussing dispensaries in maine. its ridiculous the amount of rights dispensaries get compared to patients once they pay the $15,000 bribe.
 
KlosetKing

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agree with a lot of this thread. people claim crime is on the rise because of medical pot, but in my opinion, its really a coy, a plot. duh of course crime went up, you told these people that the law was on their side if they did things on the up and up. be registered, get licenses, only sell to legal patients, etc. well now that there is a store on Main St. that we know has a grow room, tons of pot, paraphernalia, criminals don't need to listen to word of mouth on the streets anymore. their targets are in the open, and easier to spot (hell you could already just go to the local hydro store and watch people coming in and out and start getting an idea of whos growing).

then you have the people who have an agenda against the movement. reduction in funds, personal bias due to some sort of upbringing/external influence i.e. an abusive and neglectful parent who also happened to smoke weed. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE WEED, it couldn't have been the prescription pills or alcohol, those are legal and safe! Religion also can lead to these types, but i digress. These people with agendas begin to lobby this shit, and unfortunately a lot of them also happen to be cops, and its a conflict of interest for a cop to lobby for a law.

There were some firebombings in a few dispensaries not far from here. luckily they were put out quickly, and no one was hurt, and damages were minimum. the words 'not in our town' spray painted across the wall. How fucked up is that some patients (legitimately or illegitimately) going into a licensed store and buying pot, protected by a law passed 6 years ago by more than 60% of the people, can turn some citizens who fear drugs into violent criminals? and we should be scared of the stoners? I suppose to get to that question though, you would have to dismiss the fact that the assailants probably WERE cops, and thats why there havnt been any arrests.
 
NoSwagBag

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WOW,

Im seriously considering getting registered, but what a pia. I (and my wife) are worried I'll get caught doing it "underground" but it sounds as if you'll get more attention if you go legal.
 
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KlosetKing said:
agree with a lot of this thread. people claim crime is on the rise because of medical pot, but in my opinion, its really a coy, a plot. duh of course crime went up, you told these people that the law was on their side if they did things on the up and up. be registered, get licenses, only sell to legal patients, etc. well now that there is a store on Main St. that we know has a grow room, tons of pot, paraphernalia, criminals don't need to listen to word of mouth on the streets anymore. their targets are in the open, and easier to spot (hell you could already just go to the local hydro store and watch people coming in and out and start getting an idea of whos growing).

then you have the people who have an agenda against the movement. reduction in funds, personal bias due to some sort of upbringing/external influence i.e. an abusive and neglectful parent who also happened to smoke weed. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE WEED, it couldn't have been the prescription pills or alcohol, those are legal and safe! Religion also can lead to these types, but i digress. These people with agendas begin to lobby this shit, and unfortunately a lot of them also happen to be cops, and its a conflict of interest for a cop to lobby for a law.

There were some firebombings in a few dispensaries not far from here. luckily they were put out quickly, and no one was hurt, and damages were minimum. the words 'not in our town' spray painted across the wall. How fucked up is that some patients (legitimately or illegitimately) going into a licensed store and buying pot, protected by a law passed 6 years ago by more than 60% of the people, can turn some citizens who fear drugs into violent criminals? and we should be scared of the stoners? I suppose to get to that question though, you would have to dismiss the fact that the assailants probably WERE cops, and thats why there havnt been any arrests.
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Haha wow.
Isn't it ironic that people who want the dispensaries and marijuana out of their town are committing worse crimes than any breaking any marijuana laws? What goes through peoples heads when they do things like that?
 
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me8980109

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The latest bust in Maine was in Pittsfield and was a direct result of posting on facebook pictures of the grow-op. I have a copy of the search warrant and you really wouldn't believe the stuff used to justify the raid. Beyond the grow pictures that did not identify his location, they used things like "the individual has an air conditioner in his window in March" typical behavior for someone trying to control the temperature in a grow room." Probably has nothing to do with the person being lazy and not removing for the winter, fuck I have one in a 2nd story window that I never remove.

99% of the information in the warrant you could get from any home you wanted to search. It just goes to show that they don't care about the individuals as patients, in fact my belief is they don't even see them as patients. They see them as circumventing the law and it pisses them off because they can legally grow.
 
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