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FBI and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department accused of illegally seizing marijuana cash
Yahoo ^ | 28 Jan 2022 | Michael Finnegan

Posted on 01/28/2022 2:37:23 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

The first sign of trouble for Empyreal came on May 17, when a sheriff's deputy in Dickinson County, Kan., pulled over one of its vans' drivers on I-70 for an alleged traffic violation and questioned her.

She told the deputy she was on her way to pick up cash at medical pot dispensaries in Kansas City, Mo., then planned to drive the money back through Kansas the next morning to deposit it at a credit union in Colorado, according to the DEA. Medical marijuana is legal in Missouri but not in Kansas.

The next morning, the DEA put the driver under surveillance as she made her stops in Kansas City. On her way back through Kansas, the same sheriff's deputy stopped her again on I-70. This time, the deputy seized the more than $165,000 in cash that the driver had collected at five state-licensed dispensaries in Missouri.

The DEA and the U.S. attorney's office in Kansas are trying to confiscate the cash, claiming it is tied to unspecified federal drug and money-laundering violations by unnamed people.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: armedrobbery; cannabis; fbi; forfeiture; highwayrobbery; jbt; kansas; marijuana; pot; wod
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Jill Sanborn had no comment.


21 posted on 01/28/2022 3:43:11 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Ahh, good point. As long as there was no “residue”.


22 posted on 01/28/2022 3:44:16 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable.STILL )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Dope pushers vs corrupt cops.

Throw em all in jail.


23 posted on 01/28/2022 3:50:25 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Should've told 'em she won it playing craps.


24 posted on 01/28/2022 4:04:52 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Is it illegal or is it that the federal banking laws don’t allow regular banks to deposit the cash?

Forcing the dispensary owners and growers to figure out a way to store their cash.

In colorado it’s become a bit of a cottage industry for a lot of veterans. The folks in the lot business buy old banks and hire security companies mes to transport and guard the locations.


25 posted on 01/28/2022 4:39:10 PM PST by qaz123
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sorry but those days never existed, it was a lie created to create the false legend of the FBI


26 posted on 01/28/2022 4:39:43 PM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: IYAS9YAS

They’ll say it was illicit drug proceeds.

All about the cash.

And guess what? San Bernadino gets 80% of the seizure money.


27 posted on 01/28/2022 4:40:48 PM PST by qaz123
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To: nesnah

And so many actually believe it.

And the Feds that I know just shrug their shoulders when confronted with the many abuses that have become public.


28 posted on 01/28/2022 4:42:34 PM PST by qaz123
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To: ZOOKER

None of the money can be deposited in a federally insured bank.


29 posted on 01/28/2022 4:44:18 PM PST by qaz123
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To: qaz123
Is it illegal or is it that the federal banking laws don’t allow regular banks to deposit the cash?

Marijuana possession is illegal under federal law. There is no federal exception for medical marijuana.

30 posted on 01/28/2022 4:50:01 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!?)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

And yet, the District of Columbia allows medical marijuana.

This country is a God-awful mess.


31 posted on 01/28/2022 5:02:27 PM PST by qaz123
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Go for it! The Fed should seize every bit of drug money they can, it’s still illegal federally. It should be everywhere. No sympathy


32 posted on 01/28/2022 6:00:39 PM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: granite

The woman has a big mouth!


33 posted on 01/28/2022 6:12:52 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ivermectin should be available for sale over the counter in the United States of America)
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To: ifinnegan

Clearly you’ve never been in the position of having exhausted all prescription antiemetics available legally on the market. You spend your days puking virtually nonstop and see how quickly you turn to cannabis when the prescription meds don’t work anymore.

Medical cannabis has a place, and although I’m of the opinion that it should just be legalized already, it is an absolute last resort for me. Being in kidney failure in your twenties isn’t exactly a cake walk. No, it wasn’t caused by drugs or booze.


34 posted on 01/28/2022 7:49:09 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

My comment was about dope pushers.

Are you under the impression the person in this article was somehow involved in what you called “Medical cannabis”?


35 posted on 01/28/2022 9:33:15 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

Cannabis is so generic.

I’m sure some pot won’t work for anti-emesis.

Others better. Probably the good sinsemilla bud works best.

What do you do about quality control? What standards or validation so are there for effective cannabis based anti-emesis?


36 posted on 01/28/2022 9:41:00 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

And what part of the Constitution grants FedGov the power to ban a plant? It required a Constitutional amendment for them to try to get rid of ethanol, so what’s so different here that the Constitution already covers it?


37 posted on 01/30/2022 5:38:59 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: ifinnegan
Are you under the impression the person in this article was somehow involved in what you called “Medical cannabis”?

I know it's FR tradition to not read the article, but at a minimum try reading the excerpt! It doesn't need to "give an impression", it explicitly says medical dispensaries..
38 posted on 01/30/2022 5:44:01 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Reno89519
Go for it! The Fed should seize every bit of drug money they can, it’s still illegal federally. It should be everywhere. No sympathy

Until it's your drug of choice that had been made illegal. Like Coffee? Do you smoke, chew, dip, or vape? Like beer or wine, or even, heaven forbid, hard liquor? I can't believe all these Freepers are cheering federal confiscation of property because the Fed, driven by the FBIs "Reefer Madness" propaganda campaign, have deemed that an organically derived product that had been used for centuries is illegal. There is a reason the law is known as the Controlled Substance List. It's all about control. By them. Not the market. The Fed.

One last time, for all the FBI/Fed tools out there, it is a state issue. It is a commie issue. They will and have tried to use the same justification to ban guns, as a health issue via the FDA and DEA, meaning by fiat, as these two trusted agencies determine what goes on the schedule with the Controlled Substance Act.

39 posted on 01/30/2022 5:53:33 AM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: Svartalfiar
And what part of the Constitution grants FedGov the power to ban a plant?

The Constitution now says whatever 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices want it to say.

It began in 1942, when the Supreme Court decreed in Wickard v. Filburn that the federal government can prohibit a farmer from growing wheat for consumption by his own family under the Interstate Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court doubled down in Gonzales v. Raich in 2005 and decreed that the federal government can prohibit the possession and use of marijuana even if you grow it yourself for medicinal use.

40 posted on 01/30/2022 9:05:49 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!?)
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