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National Guard, Cops raid 81 year old grandmother house for single pot plant
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:19 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:19 am
Washington Post
Federal tax dollars hard at work.
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Margaret Holcomb, an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., grew a single marijuana plant in her garden, tucked away behind the raspberries. She used it to ease the ailments of old age: glaucoma, arthritis and the occasional sleepless night.
She hadn't tried to get a medical marijuana card, because of the challenges of getting a doctor's approval, she told the Daily Hampshire Gazette. And traveling to the dispensary in the next town over and paying for marijuana grown by someone else would be too costly, she feared.
So on the afternoon of Sept. 21, a team of Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts National Guard troops sent a helicopter, several vehicles, and a handful of troopers to Holcomb's house to chop down the plant and haul it away in a pickup truck.
Holcomb wasn't the only one targeted by the marijuana raid. State police spokesman David Procopio told the Gazette that authorities also seized 43 other plants from various properties that day. The largest of these seizures involved 20 plants. Several properties netted only two plants each. None of the property owners were charged with crimes, according to Procopio.
Procopio said these operations were done under the auspices of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Cannabis Eradication Program, which gives state authorities money to uproot pot plants. This year, the DEA gave Massachusetts $60,000 for marijuana eradication efforts, according to federal documents published by the Seattle-based nonprofit news outlet Crosscut.
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Responding to criticism from a local government official in western Massachusetts, DEA spokesman Melvin Patterson told the Boston Herald that the state decides when and how to conduct raids for pot plants.
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Last year in Utah, a member of an eradication team testified that a medical marijuana law could lead to an epidemic of stoned rabbits and other animals. The incident became fodder for late-night talk shows.
Federal tax dollars hard at work.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:21 am to NYNolaguy1
Play stupid games, when stupid prizes.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:22 am to NYNolaguy1
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Cannabis Eradication Program
What a waste of money.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:27 am to NYNolaguy1
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Cannabis Eradication Program
Being the Animaltarian I am, I'm appalled that this genocidal program is allowed to exist.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:30 am to NYNolaguy1
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National Guard, Cops raid 81 year old grandmother house for single pot plant
Is it legal up there to grow weed? If not, why are people bitching that they enforced the law?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:31 am to NYNolaguy1
I would like to punch her rat neighbors in the gunt.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:32 am to NYNolaguy1
Our grandkids are going to ask us about marijuana being illegal during our lifetimes and we're going to have no explanation.
Its so absurd.
Its so absurd.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:34 am to Warfarer
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If not, why are people bitching that they enforced the law?
They could have tasked a pair of officers for a single plant. Seems a little expensive and overkill for helicopters, national guard and multiple vehicles to take down that 81 year old woman
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:35 am to Warfarer
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Is it legal up there to grow weed? If not, why are people bitching that they enforced the law?
It is for medical purposes. It's also not a criminal offense to be in possession in Mass.
Plus, do you really think a helicopter, countless police officers, and most likely a SWAT raid on an 81 year old grandmother for a single pot plant is the best use of taxpayer resources?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:35 am to Sao
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I would like to punch her rat neighbors in the gunt.
The plant gives us a heat signature, hence why so many try to grow them indoors. Probably not a rat, just an overzealous spendy government.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:36 am to NYNolaguy1
fricking terrible. Our country is so backwards sometimes
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:37 am to Warfarer
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quote: National Guard, Cops raid 81 year old grandmother house for single pot plant Is it legal up there to grow weed? If not, why are people bitching that they enforced the law?
Let me guess, you consider yourself a 'conservative'
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:39 am to TheCaterpillar
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Our grandkids are going to ask us about marijuana being illegal during our lifetimes and we're going to have no explanation.
Its so absurd.
"Marijuana laws should be a litmus test for intelligence"-G Johnson
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:40 am to NYNolaguy1
Being 81, you'd think she'd know how to follow the law.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:53 am to ShamelessPel
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The plant gives us a heat signature, hence why so many try to grow them indoors. Probably not a rat, just an overzealous spendy government.
So do tomato plants...
But to your answer about indoor grows, the heat spot using IR is the dead give away there. One plant in a backyard garden could turn out to be, oh I don't know, BLACKBERRIES.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:55 am to NYNolaguy1
Well, marijuana is a gateway drug. It was only a matter of time before granny was on the needle.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 10:59 am to Warfarer
quote:Because it's a stupid law and waste of resources.
Is it legal up there to grow weed? If not, why are people bitching that they enforced the law?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 11:01 am to efrad
Hell, She was probably already injecting the marijuana's
Posted on 10/7/16 at 11:09 am to hogminer
I just harvested 11 pot plants, and have one more I'm chopping down on Sunday/Monday. frick the feds.
I have my own cannabis eradication program. One joint at a time.
I have my own cannabis eradication program. One joint at a time.
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