This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on August 20, 2013.
For those patients in and around Metro Detroit, many of your dispensaries were just raided by cops with a chip on their shoulder. Many of the raids that occurred in the last week have been quick cash grabs, with intimidation tactics and ski-masks, intended to collect registers and not evidence. In one raid, when a lawyer arrived on location, the get-away van was quickly packed and the “SWAT” team fled.
So what happened? This month Sanjay Gupta released a shattering documentary showing the world what marijuana provides patients and urging for federal policy change. This month the Department of Justice directed judges to ignore minimum sentencing guidelines for drug offenders.
Whenever you threaten some ones job, they will fight back. This is what this “task force” did. They didn’t mean to harm the patients they held guns to or the caregivers they shook down. It was clear that their actions were directed towards Sanjay Gupta and Eric Holder and no one else.
It is a sad world when one would rather ride in back of the bus. That is the world us Michigan patients and caregivers feel most safe in.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana
https://caponeofcannabis.com/dispensaries-not-illegal/
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-mied-2_08-cv-14696/pdf/USCOURTS-mied-2_08-cv-14696-0.pdf