FBI raiding Colorado medical marijuana sites

[K.J]

A mod should either edit this title or delete this thread.

you jumped the gun so fast 66BUDS that I almost shit myself.

Well, it wasn't his fault. He took the title from local news stories. The fault lies with them for being so sensationalist.

 

[K.J]

You read it again, it says nothing about fraud.

You're right, but their companion articles mention it in relation to what's really going on...which is a fraud investigation.

 

[66buds]

So is cannamed and AMSDCO in the same building ?

 

[alphaguru]

kinda. cannamed is in the very front of the complex. the dispensary is in the very back if the complex. not even the same building but they are 50 ft from one another

 

[MtnKuSh]

im shur eather way its not a good thing that feds and state are in these places messing with records etc..

 

[nattynattygurrl]

phew, well i am relieved that this wasn't about the herb.

 

[K.J]

Bad news:

"9Wants to Know has learned the FBI has busted an identity theft operation run by Russians who worked to steal identities from people trying to buy medical marijuana and used those identities to commit bank fraud and buy expensive vehicles from local dealerships, according to sources and the U.S. Attorney's office."

According to law enforcement and court records, people connected to CannaMed stole personal identifications from patients seeking medical marijuana in the business. Those identities were then used to obtain credit cards and buy expensive luxury cars from auto dealerships, including Maaliki Motors in Aurora.

May the hammer of justice fall swift and true.

 

[feltonmuggs]

wowzers, I said it about this location before, they are sketchy! My experience where was one of coercion and intimidation. Glad these bastards were busted!

FBI dealership, medical marijuana raids linked
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=121343&catid=339

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

If this is really over identity theft Iw ill be glad to see those people locked up. Kinda hard to believe though that the feds are actually looking out for patients best interests. I wonder if these are related with the raids in the LA area.

 

[K.J]

If this is really over identity theft Iw ill be glad to see those people locked up. Kinda hard to believe though that the feds are actually looking out for patients best interests. I wonder if these are related with the raids in the LA area.

But if the allegations are true what a way to black eye the entire MMJ industry in CO guys!

 

[MtnKuSh]

the shit is only going to get alot worse before it gets better.. !

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

But if the allegations are true what a way to black eye the entire MMJ industry in CO guys!

Well it depends on how Colorado NORML spins this. If they applaud the feds for protecting patients privacy and drop the issue of shutting down the dispensary as a bad thing it can be a win-win situation.

 

[Paco]

9 news is loving this. They segue into commercial with this story.
"find out why" not 66 fault. They are putting up a misleading story. And these dumbasses are giving the medical marijuana industry a bad name.

 

[K.J]

The story has now been updated:

FBI agents also served search warrants at more than a dozen locations, including personal residences, auto dealerships and the medical marijuana business called Alternative Medicine of Southeast Denver (AMSD), a company that is the same building as CannaMed, on Leetsdale Drive in Denver. CannaMed is where people can apply to get medical marijuana.

The FBI also raided AMSD on Friday morning after finding a little less than 100 marijuana plants. The FBI's primary focus was CannaMed, but entered AMSD after seeing the marijuana.

Because marijuana is not legal under federal law, the agents confiscated all the plants.

The two owners of AMSD tell 9NEWS the plants were worth tens of thousands of dollars and were used to treat more than 100 clients.

The seizure effectively shuts the business down.

"It is going to be very difficult for them to stay in business here today. They have hundreds of patients that they assist. You guys have seen them pulling into the parking lot one after another, after another this morning and those people are no longer going to be able to get medical marijuana here," Warren Cedson, an attorney for AMSD, said.

Colorado law allows for the use and sale of medical marijuana, but federal law does not. In this situation the federal agents were obligated to confiscate the marijuana.

The feds are just being a bunch of bullies, because we all know they aren't going to prosecute if there really were less than 100 plants taken.

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

Ok now thats fucked up. So if you have a dispensary next to a bank, and the bank gets robbed they are going to close you down too?

 

[MtnKuSh]

I.T.Y.S.!

 

[feltonmuggs]

well if the dispensary is giving patient names away so russian mob can steal the identities of legitimate MMJ patients, then defraud banks and car dealers, they hell yea shut them bastards down!

Take all their shit and make sure the law-abiding citizens are protected.

I don't expect the Feds to 'protect' us in any way with regard to MMJ, but they should be protecting our identity from ID thief's.

 

[MtnKuSh]

i hurd 700 people are being investigated..homes,clinics,dispensaries.

 

[MtnKuSh]

where is marshmellow>??????? hope everything is ok over at greenmtn...! hit us up marsh

 

[K.J]

Charlie Cross, spokesman for CannaMed, said, "CannaMed has no connection whatsoever with the individuals that were the target of the [search] warrants."

Boy, I sure hope that's true. If so, it looks like maybe a case of "whoops, wrong address...but we'll keep the plants!"?