MI Sheriff Compares Medical Marijuana Operations To “Organized Crime”
Joe | Aug 27, 2010 | Comments 7
Oakland County, Michigan sheriff Mike Bouchard recently defended raids made by his department by comparing the medical marijuana clinics to “organized crime.”
Bouchard said at a press conference that undercover officers observed the clinics selling marijuana to customers without state-issued ID cards and that associated caregivers were growing more plants and had more patients than allowed under state law.
If these allegations are true, then the dispensaries were breaking state law and deserved to be raided. That’s not to say that the law if perfect.
Bouchard and Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper pointed out the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act of 2008 did not anticipate dispensaries, which Bouchard suggested were operating like an “organized crime” ring.
The laws in Michigan obviously need to be clarified. Patients suffer with every raid on clinics. But for the politicians this is job security. The can haggle over the state’s medical marijuana law for a long time while patients are in misery and unable to get their medication.
And if the dispensaries are breaking state law, they deserve reprimand as well; their corner cutting makes them targets for law enforcement. Their patients suffer the most when the clinics get raided.
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Why the hell don’t they just go look for Bank Robbers or Killers ,and leave the MMJ people alone?
because the mmj clinics are easy targets, it makes there job easier, they don’t have to work as hard for there tax payer funded pay check, because they are stupid careless pigs.
I heard the cops forged documents that were almost flawless to buy meds and then destroyed all documentation and claim these people sold to them with no credentials. I frequent many Michigan dispensaries, and have never been to one that does not run an extremely tight ship. It is annoying for some, but they ask for your id, and your medcard(no pictures on them), and then they look you up in their database. And that’s just to get in to the room with the meds!
I think they used the forged documentation, sent an undercover officer who became friends with the store owners. He must have said he didn’t have his card one day and they sold to him in the parking lot. The officer destroyed the paperwork, and bam! no proof that they checked his card. And it looks like they would have just sold to anyone. This is just another crazy sheriff, who wants to enforce the laws he likes, and not the ones he doesn’t.
[...] judge in Oakland County, MI has ruled that patients arrested in a recent series of raids cannot medicate with cannabis while they are out on bond. The decision brought a round of hissing [...]
Funny they should compare it to organized crime when it is that (business)model that is being the most disrupted by medical marijuana.
I wonder who funds the Sheriff? As it is organized crime that derives the greatest benefits from the Sheriff’s actions
I have to agree of with mike.
the state laws clearly state the rules they should be followed or your in violation of the peoples vote. subject to prosecution by the people period.