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A recent tactic emerging is charging known medical cannabis patients with DUI. Because blood testing will reveal evidence of cannabis use for weeks or even months after the fact, LEO is using this to charge activists who have dared to stand up for their rights. This story just in from William Britt illustrates the point precisely.
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Persecutors are using undercover agents to infiltrate the medical cannabis community and gather evidence. Because federal sentencing guidelines require more than 100 cannabis plants to justify prosecution and get the maximum jail time and asset forfeiture, LEO may conduct their investigation and gather evidence for years before bringing charges, adding up the total number of plants grown over time rather than the number found during an actual raid. See the Fry-Schafer trial for an example of this underhanded tactic.

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Children are the latest victims of our government's war on medical cannabis. When the booty collected during a raid includes children they are turned over to a state agency for processing and indoctrination. Examples that illustrate this tactic of intimidation are the cases against John Berchielli and the Naulls Family.

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Persecutors have the power to send armed agents to raid and plunder private property over medical cannabis. Often assets are seized with no charges ever being filed. Assets seized include homes, vehicles, bank accounts, cannabis, and anything of potential value at auction, nailed down or not. Whatever is left behind is destroyed beyond usefulness to the owner. Proceeds from the auction are turned over to LEO to expand operations.
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Property owners are being threatened by LEO with letters informing them that they will be charged for money laundering if they rent to medical cannabis cooperatives or dispensaries.  Landlords who dare to resist will be treated to a round of asset forfeiture and perhaps even conspiracy charges because they know what is going on in the building.

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Government agents are permitted to lie, make up false identities, forge documents, wiretap, film, record, buy, sell, steal and whatever else is needed to gain a conviction in court. Law does not apply to LEO and may be changed at will according to circumstances defined by and for the LEO industry. See Court Reports for ongoing examples of this fundamental truth that every medical cannabis patient, family and friends must be fully advised of.

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Federal persecutors and judges are obsessed with keeping the truth about medical cannabis from juries. Overzealous, incompetent government agents have corrupted the judicial process beginning with the selection of jurors, where all medical cannabis supporters are rejected from serving, through the trial where witnesses are prohibited from testifying, to the jury instructions wherein they are reminded that they take an oath to follow the judge’s instructions, which turn out to be that they must ignore state law, and find the defendants guilty. This same corrupt official will be in charge of sentencing, so the jury is told it must not consider that either in their deliberation. An incredible amount of energy and time is consumed to protect the jury from learning they have the power and authority to judge the law as well as the facts.

Under these circumstances it is not possible to get a fair trial in federal court for medical cannabis. Learn more at the Fully Informed Jury Association.

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Government agents don't need a warrant to view your utility records because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the business records of a third party. All they need is a cooperative third party and they seem to have that with all public utilities to date. This information can be used to build a case for a search warrant, but it probably needs to be accompanied by other evidence. A careful review of Vanessa Nelson's transcript of the verbal arguments for Dustin Costa's Appeal presented to the 9th Circuit Court on Dec 3, 2007 will provide more details about what sort of evidence is required.