Whatever it is doesn't matter. It's the principle.
Whether you agree with it or not marijuana sales are illegal. These arrests are perfectly legal.
Not if you agree with the Constitution's design for state sovereignty and limited federal powers. I don't like marijuana either, but its legality is a state issue when the plants don't cross state lines.
While the case you stated in it’s content are deplorable one assumes the guy had access to counsel.
Your access to counsel doesn't matter, as the case isn't against you. Nowhere do your constitutional rights come into this scenario. They can take your stuff on a vague feeling of illegality, and it is a very expensive, uphill battle for you as a third party to get it back. You have to post bond, you have to pay legal fees commensurate with fighting against the resources of a greedy government, and hope the government doesn't take that too. That is if they haven't already confiscated all of your assets, depriving you of the resources to fight. That happened to a doctor once who didn't know to fill out the paperwork when transferring money from one of his accounts to another -- everything was seized, and his friends who loaned him the money to fight found themselves in trouble too.
I remember one instance of a landscaper who used to regularly fly to a nearby state with cash to buy his supplies. He fit a profile, so IIRC around $8,000 was just taken from him at the airport. What do you do when the fight to get it back will easily cost you over $10,000, non-reimbursable?
But sometimes one must walk right up to the line
They ran past the line a long time ago. I don't think they even noticed it.
This was never anything but a ruse to allow the sale of Marijuana .
Whatever it is doesn’t matter. It’s the principle.
There is no principal in passing a law for an express purpose when the intent is something else.
The drug trade long ago became more than a state problems. Most of these laws we are speaking of were brought about at the behest of state AGs.
While the case you stated in it’s content are deplorable one assumes the guy had access to counsel.
I would not begin to justify this kind of abuse , sadly there are Mike Nifongs among us. The bastard that did this should be prosecuted.