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 [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility
#13575291 - 12/02/10 08:53 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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The federal Drug Enforcement Agency cleans out a medical marijuana growing facility in Okemos
December 2, 2010 - lansingcitypulse.com
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has raided a medical marijuana grow facility in Okemos. The man leasing space at the facility says the plant numbers were within the state’s medical marijuana law.
Ryan Basore, owner of Capital City Caregivers at 2208 E. Michigan Ave., also leases the 3,000-square-foot industrial facility that was raided at 2360 Jolly Oak Road in Okemos on Tuesday. Basore said other tri-county police departments participated in the raid but not Ingham County or Meridian Township police.
Basore said the DEA “took everything,” including growing equipment, 40 plants and roughly $20,000 worth of plant nutrients. Six caregivers leasing facility space from Basore owned the plants.
As both a medical marijuana patient and a caregiver, Basore can legally possess up to 72 plants himself, he said. A patient may have 12 plants and a caregiver may have up to 60.
Basore said he believes the raid stemmed from a neighbor’s complaint about the growing operation.
Special Agent Rich Isaacson, a public information officer at the DEA’s Detroit branch, confirmed today that a federal search warrant was executed Tuesday night at the facility near the intersection of Okemos and Jolly roads.
He would not comment further on the raid because the case is under investigation.
However, he said the DEA does not differentiate between “medical marijuana and marijuana” when it comes to “large-scale drug trafficking groups.”
“That being said, people following state law will not be targeted,” Isaacson said. “We are not utilizing our resources on folks that are following state law.”
The DEA recognizes cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, along with the likes of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy, claiming it has no medicinal use.
In 2008, 63 percent of Michigan voters disagreed and passed the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act as a state ballot initiative.
Basore expressed concern about not getting back confiscated plants and equipment. He said the DEA has kept confiscated items in raids that did result in arrests in other states where medical marijuana was also legal.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, interim Lansing Police Chief Teresa Szymanski and State Reps. George Cushingberry Jr. and Fred Durhal Jr., both Detroit Democrats,' about the matter. He said they are all “upset.”
He said roughly 60 law enforcement vehicles were at the scene Tuesday night. Basore added that a black SUV had been staking out the site for about “three to four months.”
U.S. Federal Judge Joseph Scoville from Michigan’s Western District in Grand Rapids signed a search warrant Nov. 24 to seize a host of cannabis-related materials at Basore’s facility.
This incident is likely to draw the attention from groups who say the federal government is overstepping its boundaries when it comes to medical marijuana, which is allowed in 13 other states besides Michigan.
“We’ll see. It’s going to get interesting,” Basore said.
Basore is in the process of putting together a legal team to fight the case.
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: veggie]
#13576032 - 12/02/10 11:53 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Edit: Post removed by Seuss... we don't want any misunderstandings from implying that harm come towards certain politicians. Make changes with your vote, not with violence.
Edited by Seuss (12/03/10 02:41 AM)
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: veggie]
#13576190 - 12/03/10 12:56 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Wow....
I work, no exaggeration, 100 yards away from that place.
I had no idea it was there.
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veggie said:
Basore said he believes the raid stemmed from a neighbor’s complaint about the growing operation.
Why the fuck would someone complain about something that you would have no idea was even there unless you were seeking it out?
"Yes officer, there seems to be a high level of breathable air around these days. I think my neighbors are polluting our pollutants with oxegen, FROM MARIJUANA PLANTS!"
This is just insane to me that this hit so close to where I work. Keep up the great work DEA; because the more you raid state legalized MMJ facilities the more people will realize that this isn't some far away problem that is happening in CA or something, but rather something that federal agents are doing right around where we live. The more people that see that: the more likely a big public uproar will be.
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility *DELETED* [Re: 5-HT2A]
#13576299 - 12/03/10 01:38 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Post deleted by Invisible_WoeReason for deletion: my bad
Edited by Seuss (12/03/10 02:42 AM)
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: Invisible_Woe]
#13576452 - 12/03/10 09:30 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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One of my friends was murdered the night before last, shot through the door in Saginaw while he tried to keep someone with a gun out of his friend's apartment to protect his girlfriend, and they're sending 60 POLICE VEHICLES TO GODDAMN OKEMOS TO TAKE DOWN A PLANT GROWNIG OPERATION!!!!
I want someone to look me in the eye and tell me that this is the best way to use law-enforcement funds in Michigan right now from a public safety standpoint. With what's going on in Mid-Michigan, Okemos can sure as fuck tell it's elderly voting base that there are more important things going on than what they think about the plants that may be growing near their houses.
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Edited by AltecLansing (12/03/10 09:37 AM)
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: Moonraker]
#13576616 - 12/03/10 10:11 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Moonraker said:
This is just insane to me that this hit so close to where I work. Keep up the great work DEA; because the more you raid state legalized MMJ facilities the more people will realize that this isn't some far away problem that is happening in CA or something, but rather something that federal agents are doing right around where we live. The more people that see that: the more likely a big public uproar will be.
Americans don't protest dude unless it's like a gay parade or something. At best it's a riot when a cop is proven racist.
Our government has been putting their foot up our ass for a long time and there's yet to be an uproar.
So don't hold your breath.
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: Moonraker]
#13603435 - 12/08/10 06:36 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Moonraker said:
Wow....
I work, no exaggeration, 100 yards away from that place.
I had no idea it was there.
Quote:
veggie said:
Basore said he believes the raid stemmed from a neighbor’s complaint about the growing operation.
Why the fuck would someone complain about something that you would have no idea was even there unless you were seeking it out?
"Yes officer, there seems to be a high level of breathable air around these days. I think my neighbors are polluting our pollutants with oxegen, FROM MARIJUANA PLANTS!"
This is just insane to me that this hit so close to where I work. Keep up the great work DEA; because the more you raid state legalized MMJ facilities the more people will realize that this isn't some far away problem that is happening in CA or something, but rather something that federal agents are doing right around where we live. The more people that see that: the more likely a big public uproar will be.
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#13604546 - 12/08/10 10:24 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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You've smoked bud grown from that place?!
MI Med. scene FTW!
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
To fall in hell or soar angelic,
You need a pinch of psychedelic.
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: Moonraker]
#13605248 - 12/09/10 02:39 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Moonraker said:
You've smoked bud grown from that place?!
MI Med. scene FTW!
 
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Nothing I say or do is factual; every single thing I write is a work of fiction. Got no idea what I'm talking about here~
"Once in awhile, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"~ (Grateful Dead)
"o puer, qui omnia nomini debes"; "You, boy, who owe's everything to a name"~ Mark Anthony
"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum."; "Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system."~ Cicero
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: AltecLansing]
#13605622 - 12/09/10 06:42 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
AltecLansing said:
One of my friends was murdered the night before last, shot through the door in Saginaw while he tried to keep someone with a gun out of his friend's apartment to protect his girlfriend, and they're sending 60 POLICE VEHICLES TO GODDAMN OKEMOS TO TAKE DOWN A PLANT GROWNIG OPERATION!!!!
I want someone to look me in the eye and tell me that this is the best way to use law-enforcement funds in Michigan right now from a public safety standpoint. With what's going on in Mid-Michigan, Okemos can sure as fuck tell it's elderly voting base that there are more important things going on than what they think about the plants that may be growing near their houses.
Fucking disgraceful. 
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Re: [MI] Feds Raid Okemos Medical Marijuana Growing Facility [Re: Brennus]
#13607711 - 12/09/10 02:16 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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amazing that they didn't even try to say he was out of line with the medical laws, just that they didn't care.
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