Here’s the latest in the back-and-forth struggle over medical marijuana in Montana. Similar federal raids have been conducted in other states, and the federal government has warned that those involved in medical marijuana could be prosecuted. The Associated Press details today’s development:
Two medical marijuana providers have sued the federal government over what they are calling unconstitutional raids of their Montana businesses.
Federal agents executed 26 search warrants against pot businesses in Montana on March 14, seizing drugs, cash, weapons and vehicles. Since then, agents have raided two Washington state dispensaries and federal prosecutors have sent letters of warning to leaders of at least four medical marijuana states.
The owners of two of the raided businesses, Montana Caregivers Association and MCM Caregivers, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Missoula. They claim the raids unconstitutionally pre-empted Montana’s medical marijuana law and violated their civil rights.
They are asking Judge Donald Molloy to prevent the government from threatening, interfering or prosecuting them for activities allowed under state law.
(Image: Federal agents and local authorities raid a medical marijuana operation in Helena in March. Eliza Wiley/Helena Independent Record)
As far as i can tell the federal government needs to be slap there agents jail for property damage and or letter of war be deliver That right war this is getting been a enforcement complex a war like operation The authorities will have to deal with out right legalization soon
massvocals
Legalize it like wine
make it so it’s not a crime
to use a little to unwind
for patients with glacoma who are going blind
or for someone with a crack in their spine
stop waisting all this time
trying to make it hard to find
cause we can all just grow it on a vine
oh legalize it like wine legalize it like wine
no more killing for a dime
no more bad boys on channel nine
no more underground mine
crossing our borderline
just listen to my ryhme
get the president to sign
to legalize it like wine
and everything will be fine