CO: Police ordered to give medical cannabis back to patients

Mogie

FORT COLLINS - A judge has ordered police to return dozens of marijuana plants to a young couple whose home pot-growing operation was raided last year.

The case is raising some interesting questions.

James and Lisa Masters say they grow marijuana for legal medicinal purposes. James says he has chronic pain and cyclic vomiting. Lisa has fibromyalgia and other ailments.

The couple says their use of medicinal marijuana has significantly changed their quality of life. They also say they are caregivers who provide medical marijuana to a number of other people in the Fort Collins area.

In June, Larimer County Judge James Hiatt dismissed the case against them citing an illegal search by police. On Monday, he ordered Fort Collins Police to return everything confiscated in the raid, including 39 marijuana plants.

The Masters' attorney, Brian Vicente said, "The state medicinal marijuana law requires authorities to maintain the plants and not destroy them or damage them in any way. I'm fascinated to see if the police have been following the law."

Fort Collins Police spokesperson Rita Davis said, "We still have the plants, but they're obviously not in a live state. We have no way to do that."

She said the county may be discussing whether to appeal the case.

The Masters and Vicente all acknowledge that the plants have probably been destroyed, but they say they intend to pursue a financial claim against the city.

"We believe the plants were probably worth at least $100,000," Vicente said. "A giveback of this much medicinal marijuana is unprecedented in Colorado and probably unprecedented nationally.

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Oleander

Wow, This is the stuff we need to make it to the national media. I would love to see stories like this on the news. The more people that see stuff like this happening around this country and seeing that medicinal laws can and do work. The more people we will have supporting the fight.Thanx for sharing this Mogie.

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green_nobody

police obeys laws?! wow, totally new world we must be living in lately

>>and actually Fort Collins Police didn't do so if you see the statement of the spooks women: plants are dead and law says they have to be kept alive. ergo police broke the law again.

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MrLizard27

imaging if they had been vegging all this time heh they would be huge!!!

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blakeb

omg lmao mr.lizard they probley smoked that shit as allways the hypocrites

JohnnyO

At least there will be a legal precedent for me to use when they try the same with me....As far as I know, the law here in Colorado says that they are not supposed to take them in the first place and are responsible for any damage....... but you have to take them to a civil court to get any money out of them.....but in the end, it's the taxpayers that are getting screwed in my opinion.

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