[420 Girl]

What a wonderful victory for the patients and a stunning defeat for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ crusade to overturn Prop 215. This was another case where law enforcement used undercover officers to pose as sick or disabled persons, using a fake identity while lying to a doctor to receive a medical marijuana recommendation. Then, under those assumed identities, the undercover officers take the very real recommendation and their very real-looking state ID cards to these legal collectives, join them, and set up marijuana purchases as a sting.

Does it bother anyone else to imagine the planning, coordination, strategy, time, and money San Diego is expending on trying to bring down collectives of growers and patients? Could they work this hard to bring down some human trafficking ring or maybe a corrupt banker or two? Police and prosecutorial resources are finite; every minute and dollar used to fight medical marijuana, DA Dumanis, is time and money diverted from protecting us from actual crime.

SAN DIEGO (760 KFMB) – The manager of a San Diego medical marijuana collective was acquitted Tuesday of possessing marijuana and selling the drug for profit.

Jackson cried when he heard the not guilty verdicts being read.

Jackson’s case was the first to go to trial in the wake of law enforcement raids in September which resulted in 31 arrests and the shutting down of 14 medical marijuana storefronts in San Diego.Jurors who spoke to reporters after the verdicts said the laws on medical marijuana sales from collectives were vague, prompting them to find the defendant innocent.

“On a personal level, if you’re going to hold somebody to a law, you have to define that law,” said juror Perry Wright.

The number of medical marijuana dispensaries rose recently, in the wake of San Diego County’s failed attempt to overturn the state’s 1996 medical marijuana law and U.S. Attorney Eric Holder’s directive that federal agents will only target medical marijuana storefronts when operators violate both state and federal laws.

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