The Prohibition Follies

I'm inspired today by a story I read on a local television stations web site. The headlines intrigued me;

"POLICE: Louisville man tells cops his pot plants were burglarized"

You have to know that for a legalization advocate these things drive me up a wall. I don't think anyone could read those headlines without the words "how stupid" creeping into their mind. But after reading the complete story my head started to hurt when I thought about how really stupid this was all around.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say they responded to a scene early Friday morning where a Louisville man claimed his marijuana was being burglarized.

According to an arrest report, 911 dispatchers received a phone call asking police to come to an address on St. Joseph Avenue, near the intersection of the Watterson Expressway and Dixie Hwy., but the call was disconnected.

When officers arrived on the scene, they say they found 51-year-old Stephen Byerly. Police say Byerly told them he found two individuals in his home, "who then burglarized his marijuana plants." 

You can see what happened by those first three paragraphs. This guy discovers two people in his basement messing with his grow. Now he doesn't think about his plants when he calls the police, he just knows he's got two strangers in his home. He then realizes where they are and decides to take care of things on his own. Unfortunately for him the police knew where he had called from and followed it up.

When Byerly gave police permission to search his home, officers allegedly found 10 marijuana plants growing in the basement. They also found a "sophisticated irrigation, lighting and ventilation system."
Police say Byerly told them he was forced to grow marijuana so he could raise money after being laid off from his job

I want to warn anyone when faced with this situation. The police do not have the right to enter your premises with out a search warrant and you do not have to answer anything without an attorney present. No exceptions!




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So now what do we have? Has justice been served? An average citizen is now in trouble for growing ten plants, which would only be enough to keep and average smoker supplied for their personal use. If he grew enough to sell for a profit it would have no effect on the supply of cannabis on the market and you have two punks who wanted to take advantage of this guy still on the streets while this guy is in jail. What a comedy of errors.




This war on cannabis is wrong, so wrong. It's gotten so absurd you can't even count the ways anymore...




Educate, Legislate, Regulate...




ref link: http://www.wdrb.com/story/18554668/police-louisville-man-tells-cops-his-pot-plants-were-burglarized




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