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He Was Growing Too Much Of This Legal Plant, So Police Tossed Him In Jail And Seized $11,000
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Simply questioning civil forfeiture apparently can get you arrested and jailed in Michigan.
On Feb. 23, cancer patient Thomas Williams, 72, was featured in a Detroit Free Press article about a drug taskforce’s seizure of his television, cell phone, shotgun, and $11,000 in cash – and its attempt to take his farm. Just a few days later, on March 14, 2015, Williams was arrested on 16-month-old charges related to his allegedly growing too much medicinal marijuana.
“It’s straight up theft,” Williams’ attorney, Daniel Grow, said of the actions of the Michigan State Police’s Southwestern Enforcement Team, or SWET.
It all started in November 2013, when team members in masks broke down Williams’ door with a battering ram, handcuffed him and held him on the floor while they examined his house and took his property. Williams’ alleged crime was that he had grown 24 marijuana plants, double what is allowed for him under Michigan law. Williams said he was within the law because the other plants had begun to die, and he had cloned them and started new seedlings – although they weren’t planted yet, he told the Free Press. The “extra” plants over the limit didn’t even have roots yet, and he had planned to use them to replace the old ones.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/he-was-growing-too-much-of-this-legal-plant-so-police-tossed-him-in-jail-and-seized-11000/
