National Guard helicopter, seven cop vehicles sent to warrantlessly seize a single marijuana plant from an 81-year-old Massachusetts grandmother

Velma Smith isn’t too far away

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ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM THE RAID:

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Apparently the story ran in the Boston Globe last month: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/06/the-lesson-this-drug-bust-never-come-between-year-old-and-her-marijuana-plant/NoueuN1TgVInwfA56d3ajN/story.html

It looks like it may have gotten a lot of views. I hope it helps their impending initiative pass, and pass with large margins. $60,000 of U.S. taxpayers’ money was spent that day to yank 44 plants out of the ground.

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Oddly enough in this scenario the lack of a warrant is possibly the least troubling thing about it.

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You mean they didn’t seize her house, too? What amateurs!

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Pulling up Giant Ragweed in pursuit of illegal pot plants = schaudenfreud, especially if you’re allergic.
Shoots, if you want to weed something, my yard awaits.

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From when they first got the call (1:11):

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