The news this morning of a the North Metro Drug Unit raiding 25 where alleged pot-growing operation were occurring is a good reminder that legal operations need to know the chain of custody of their supplies back to the seed. You can expect quite a bit more action from law enforcement, following these arrests.
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For profit status of medical marijuana does not remove risks
While there are 16 states allowing some form of legalized medical marijuana, onlyColoradoallows marijuana businesses to operate as for-profit organizations, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
It’s an interesting situation for these businesses, however, as they still could face federal charges and banks won’t be funding these operations any time soon. It’s a industry and legal situation in its infancy, and people in this business would do well to contact an attorney well versed in the currentColoradomedical marijuana law before setting up shop onMain Street.
A sober little reminder for the holidays
Face it, you shouldn’t get behind the wheel of a car when you’ve been drinking. But here’s a little reminder to be even more careful over holidays, when law enforcement cracks down even harder. Over the Halloween holiday almost 450 people were arrested in a statewide crackdown.
New book highlights danger of sexual crimes conviction.
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For those who don’t fathom that a conviction for a sex crime will change their lives entirely, Russel Banks has explored the consequence of criminal conviction in his new book, “Lost Memory of Skin.” He started the novel after finding a colony of sex offenders living under a causeway in Miami, where many had been dropped off by police or probation officers, as there was no where else in the city they could legally habitate.
“There were psychopathic serial rapists living alongside some poor old drunk who may have got busted for indecent exposure because he was urinating in a parking lot at 3 a.m., or a kid who was over 18 having had sex with his girlfriend who was under 18 and got busted for statutory rape,” Banks said.
The book also looks at the nature of the internet and how it has changed our interaction with people in sexual situation. Interesting.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/18/banks/
Pizza delivery fiasco brings up a good point
It may have become a bit of a joke, but a medical marijuana patient who received a visit by police after a pizza delivery person reported him for smoking marijuana, is a good example of the type of legal entanglements patients might encounter.
Read the article here: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312451#ixzz1abVZQ2kz