Compensation for cannabis farmers wronged by the state.

[chem1st]

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_23112288/vallejo-police-return-weed-two-pot-shops-raided?source=most_viewed

 

As Solano County law enforcement brainstorms new ways to investigate marijuana dispensaries, Vallejo police this week returned nearly 60 pounds of weed and hundreds of dead plants to two dispensaries raided last year.

The property was returned Wednesday to Better Health Group and L.E.S. collective members after a judge tossed out one of cases and prosecutors dismissed the other. Retired Solano County Superior Court Judge Allan Carter granted the order for the return of the property on April 12.

 

San Rafael attorney Scot Candell, who represented both collectives, said he was glad to see the cases winding down.

 

"The court found the patients were complying with California's medical marijuana laws and the property was being lawfully possessed under state law," Candell said. "The only thing left to determine is whether the medicine has been rendered useless due to the yearlong storage in police evidence lockers, and if so, how the patients will be compensated for that loss."

 

Candell estimated the original value of the returned property to be more than $200,000. He said the collectives would seek damages from the city for any losses.

 

Asked if the city could be liable for any assessed losses, City Attorney Claudia Quintana declined to comment on what she said could become pending litigation.

 

Items returned to Better Health Group included 44 pounds of pot, 346 marijuana food products, 531 dead plants, 44 marijuana-infused drinks and 14 computers.

 

Cannabis farmers are productive people and make society a better place in which to live, if their behaviour is not banned outright.

 

Much like brewers. (In prohibition alcohol production was run by criminals, when legalised again, the crime associated with alcohol production and trade disappeared. As taxes rise upon alcohol, criminals take back control of alcohol production - as is the case in the UK for example).

 

When cannabis is legalised in this country, people should be free to grow it, much like they are free to grow potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, grapes etc. And people who have their crops destroyed by the state should be compensated.

 

California is doing the right thing here. Cannabis farmers should not have their crops destroyed by the state, and the state should pay compensation for any damage caused.

 

What do you think?

 

Suppose your business/trade was outlawed, what would you think then?

[callippo]

none of this is going to get anybody in the UK any votes. And they know it. Which is why the Lib Dems, after having a foray around there to see if there was anything in it for them, when that drunk Kennedy was their leader, thought better of it.

 

just face it mate. The general public does not like drugs-takers anywhere in the world.

[Parvo]

this is misleading if you read the article

It relates to confusion over the production for medical use and for stoners use.

 

The latter is not legal - so its not straight forward at all chemist......

[chem1st]

this is misleading if you read the article

It relates to confusion over the production for medical use and for stoners use.

 

The latter is not legal - so its not straight forward at all chemist......

 

It's similar to the heroin/methadone trade over here. One provides productive employment and cuts crime, the other does not (because it is outlawed).

[callippo]

you don't seem to have realised that ordinary people of each social class and income level, in every country, right across the world, do not like people in their midst, taking drugs including marijuana. Whether you or I, like to smoke the odd spliff, is irrelevant.

[andygardener]

you don't seem to have realised that ordinary people of each social class and income level, in every country, right across the world, do not like people in their midst, taking drugs including marijuana. Whether you or I, like to smoke the odd spliff, is irrelevant.

 

As an ordinary I think you're being a tad defeatist. We may smoke tobacco, drink coffee, imbibe a refreshing beer..all drugs. If the chap up the road want's a line or too of a weekend then that's his business. The young lady over the road want's a camberwell carrot to chill her out after a hard weeks work then what business is it of ours.

 

What we don't want is aquisative crime by drug addicts(or anyone else). Theiving druggies are hated and rightly so not because of the drugs but because of their scumbag thieving. A non thieving druggy would be met with sympathy. Leglise/massively reduce cost/no or little thieving means we pick off the hardcore thieves and feed them into a chipper and then peace rains among the land.

[Rampent]

As an ordinary I think you're being a tad defeatist. We may smoke tobacco, drink coffee, imbibe a refreshing beer..all drugs. If the chap up the road want's a line or too of a weekend then that's his business. The young lady over the road want's a camberwell carrot to chill her out after a hard weeks work then what business is it of ours.

 

What we don't want is aquisative crime by drug addicts(or anyone else). Theiving druggies are hated and rightly so not because of the drugs but because of their scumbag thieving. A non thieving druggy would be met with sympathy. Leglise/massively reduce cost/no or little thieving means we pick off the hardcore thieves and feed them into a chipper and then peace rains among the land.

 

Eh? Can I have one!

[andygardener]

Eh? Can I have one!

 

Of course, you just need the right crops and a deft way with many rizzlas.

[Rampent]

Of course, you just need the right crops and a deft way with many rizzlas.

 

Really? You can smoke a carrot? :D

[Chris_Sleeps]

you don't seem to have realised that ordinary people of each social class and income level, in every country, right across the world, do not like people in their midst, taking drugs

Of course they do. Nonsense. I have drugs every single day, and I'm no social outcast. From caffeine to alcohol, to painkillers to recreational drugs.

 

What's more; prohibition is an absolute failure. Drug use has always happened. Making it illegal is a more destructive system than regulating it.