Government Returns 12 Lbs of Pot to Man
By admin at 23 April, 2009, 3:36 pm
A man was seen with 12 pounds of marijuana Wednesday morning outside a California courthouse, but unlike a typical scene this man was not stopped by police.
That’s because a judge ruled last week that police were to return the medical marijuana they had confiscated from Richard Daleman after he was acquitted last month on charges of growing and selling the drug.
Daleman, who uses the drug as treatment for chronic pain, said the majority of his stash was there, and said the police had done a proper job of storing the drugs for him as it showed no mold growth.
“There were about 3 ounces missing,” he told the Visalia-Times.
Although Daleman was acquitted on March 27, it took almost a month for him to get his drugs back, something that clearly angered the 61-year-old.
“Ridiculous. They’ve got all these guys down there, and it seems all they do is go and buy doughnuts - and you can quote me on that,” Daleman told the paper. “I got sick of it. I told them I was going to come and get it.”
It’s likely that raids like the one conducted on Daleman will happen less often during the Obama administration. Last month Attorney General Eric Holder announced that raids would only occur if both state and federal laws were being broken.
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