Marijuana raid: Cherry Top Farms still closed, attorney hopes for cooperation from state

There is no amount of paranoia that should cause anyone to agree to increased regulation that involves increased documentation and registration of the Medicine.

You can say all day that Colorado is going to be a "model of regulation" and that somehow that is going to keep us safe when the Bullies in the Federal Government decide to tip their hand. 

The fact of the matter is when you convince yourself that legitimacy then requires full disclosure to the authorities, so that including the Bullies in the Federal Government, you are going way to far. And you are actually living in a much larger fantasy now than the one you initially complained about, where "the industry could not continue to go on unregulated without voters souring on medicinal marijuana."

Sometimes I feel like a lot of people made too much money, got way too high, and unceremoniously decided to take unneeded precautions that in the end are going to destroy everything.

The wicked flee when none pursue. Don't be them. The backlash from the paranoia that took root earlier this year is already upon us, and how quickly it came, that we should know the electric fence is on, it shocks back, walk away dummies. 

Remember what the Cole memo says, the feds are coming in "regardless of state law". I don't know how Hoban can advise his clients that they are "safe." Talk about a malpractice suit!!! Bad legal advice. Oh, and I don't think Cherrytop was one of the 5 that have been granted a state license, so they weren't licensed anyway. All the Cheesecake arguments go right out the window, as the regs only apply to "licensed" businesses. "Unlicensed" businesses are criminal businesses as far as the DEA is concerned.   Cheesecake advises that if you "embrace" the law, you will have no problems. She should be charged with malpractice too! Embrace the law once you have a fucking license, geez, sheeple! Until then you are sitting ducks. And even afterwards, probably, considering the feds say they are comin' in "regardless of state law."

The cheerleaders for the State's unconstitutional laws and regulations must represent every offical depredation on those who provide cannabis as being for the greater good, but it takes an attorney to pronounce such inversions of reality as Hoban's claim that the arrest of four providers, the confiscature of 2,500 plants, and the closure of an MMC somehow constitutes "a good sign for our state-regulated industry" -- that is complete BS!  It is going to get harder and harder to maintain the fiction as arrests and closures mount, and when the ship sinks, the rats will be too busy scurrying to intone such nonsense, but it is patients who will suffer.

Robert ChaseColorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers(720) 213-6497

Cant wait to get back to work for a state that offered you no protection yet collects money from you. You do realize they have all your info and can press charges years from now right? You think because they left without arresting you that you're in the clear? They know you will start up again, they want you too, it's called a trap. Now, years from now, they can say you have repeatedly and knowingly broke the law. I love how desperate people clinging to meaningless rules set up by the state still think they're safe. You call it safe, I call it building a case against you. You can't say you thought everything was cool because you have a license when the Feds took your weed, apparently it would be ok with you if they did that every month as long as they don't arrest you, really? Doesn't sound like a wise business to be in if arrest is your only concern. I think the state should fight for your rights, but you don't? And your going to pay the fee next year too, Colorado has you by the balls and you seem to like it, even after they stepped aside and watched you burn.

This Hoban guy is misleading when he says that it's good they" didn't arrest everyone."  This guy's clients were arrested and charged in FEDERAL COURT, all 4 of them:

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I seriously doubt they will be operating under the medical dope scam anymore.

in regards to the Cherrytop farms raid, from the rumors I've heard the owner thought allowing the consultant to deliver plants directly to her MMC was ok because had an OPC license for his licensed MMC building and she had no idea he was delivering from another location, so she did nothing wrong... My long time readers will know that this poor owner fell right into a trap I warned you all against 2 months ago, you may recall my ranting that the only entity an MMC was allowed to deliver to was a homebound patient who had registered that MMC as their primary caregiver, and as such MMC's are not allowed to deliver Medicine to another MMC, only arrange for wholesale meds to be picked up in person by a manifested & licensed employee of the purchasing MMC. Furthermore the law is pretty clear that products must always go from center A's patient OPC directly to center A's MMC or their own state licensed Storage facility, NEVER to any other location.... The unfortunate owner could have protected her business by reading, knowing and embracing the law. Had the folks at Cherrytop known the laws regarding delivery they would have insisted on picking up their clones from the HA's licensed MMC in which case, mr Ha would likely have driven the plants in question to his own MMC from his illegal grow, and only his businesses would have been eligible to have a search warrant issued on them. On record Cherrytop would've be able to show they purchased on site in a licensed facility and there would be no ties between an illegal grow and their facility. So what we've learned today is that the only way to protect your MMC from receiving product illegally is to pick it up yourself from a licensed MMC and make sure when you are there that all state and local proper and nesc. paperwork is on display. You cant control the laws others may choose to break, but you can protect your investment by always picking up your medicine & genetics personally and making sure it is always properly manifested and documented. This just illustrates yet again my point that each of you really do yourself a favor by reading and knowing the laws.