Beaumont Marijuana Dispensary Searched Tuesday, Several People Detained, Police Chief Says

[DreamSmoker]

Source: Banning-Beaumont Patch

A multi-agency task force served a search warrant Tuesday at Beaumont's only known marijuana dispensary, Oak Tree Alternative Care on East 6th Street, Beaumont Police Chief Frank Coe said.

The Allied Riverside Cities Narcotics Enforcement Team, of which the Beaumont Police Department is a member, served the search warrant at Oak Tree Alternative Care, 257 E. 6th St., around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Coe said Tuesday night.

The Beaumont city council adopted a local ordinance March 1 to ban medical marijuana dispensaries or to regulate them if a ban is ruled unlawful.

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Even when California is a MMJ State and has laws in place..
Most local Governments and officials have done nothing except dig their heals in against any access period..
S.B County has been one of the worst...

I want to point out the tactics used over and over again by the Cities and Counties...
Fact is local Police do not have the authority to enforce Federal Drug laws at all...

Bans and illegal Raids based on their re interpretation of the States laws or just pull out the Federal excuse... And most of all the lack of Due process of law..
If a Cities has a problem with you and your Business.. They have no legal right to RAID a business and take everything....

This is so bad now that Local Official are riding a fine edge of legality to eradicate Cannabis instead of working towards safe access for the Patients who have been left in the dust over this...

[FiveGoodMen]

1. The WOD is stupid and will always fail

But, specifically the War on Marijuana is bat-motherfucking-shit crazy.

[nichomachus]

2. Basically, cops are lazy and stupid

They would rather waste their time on "sitting ducks," than go out and do real police work.

DUI roadblocks -- total waste of time. We had one here a couple of weeks ago -- five hours, god knows how many cops standing around eating donuts, 1,300 cars stopped -- no arrests. If they merely enforced moving violations, they'd get more DUI drivers than they could handle, but they don't. I was at a stop light the other day. My light turned green, but I always look both ways before moving. This idiot came through the red light at about 70 mph -- right in front of a cop. The cop did nothing. Probably lunch time.

There was a recent case where the cops -- who "don't have enough manpower" to respond in a timely fashion to real crimes -- put undercover cops in the bushes near a gay resort to entrap gay men into exposing themselves. One cop spent 45 minutes cajoling an unwilling guy to take out his dick. Finally, because the cop was promising him hot sex, the guy did, and was arrested and charged as a sex offender -- along with a bunch of others. Meanwhile, the chief of police was nearby, sitting in a patrol car shouting homophobic slurs over the radio.

And, they just love to go and bust up marijuana dispensaries. I'm sure the goal is to force the dispensaries to defend themselves and go bankrupt in the process.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "45 minutes cajoling an unwilling guy"

Sounds like textbook entrapment.

[nichomachus]

4. The court disagreed with you

Also said that the chief shouting homophobic slurs over the radio didn't constitute anti-gay bias.

Basically, the cop approach the guy pretending to want sex. The guy, who had a place around the corner invited him back. However, the cop said he wanted "to see the equipment" before going. They guy said no. The cop spent 45 minutes begging and pleading and rubbing his own crotch. Finally, the guy gave in and they put the cuffs on him. It's likely he'll have to register as a sex offender.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. The facts seem pretty clear.

This wouldn't be the first time a court was wrong.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Certainly they are overpaid.

[nichomachus]

8. There are cops in Boston who make $100,00 to $200,000 a year

[villager]

11. I wonder what they would make if they had honest work?

:shrug:

[villager]

7. It's like the ticket mills -- they utterly lack the imagination to actually tackle "crime"

They're just jackbooted collectors of asymmetrical taxes, really...

[LetTimmySmoke]

9. Exactly - the fine system is just like a taxation system, except more arbitrary

[Dawson Leery]

10. Then they have the nerve to complain about how hard their job is.

There is a clear trend to the type of people who go into LE.