What happens if the medical marijuana dispensaries you visit gets raided by the feds and all of the patient medical records are taken as well?
Isn’t that an invasion of privacy?
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Yes, fight the system
a prescription for marijuana is a triplicate anyway (meaning a copy goes to the state) so I wouldnt sweat it.
They are a government organisation. They are required by law to investigate anything they regard as suspicious. They must of course demonstrate they have ‘just cause’. They cannot just enter and read your file. They must first have a suspicion and some evidence of wrongdoing.
You have state and federal laws. States that allow medical marijuana keep their own records of patients so if one clinic gets raided you simply find another. Also from what I understand the Obama Administration put an end to random raids on properly licensed marijuana dispensaries. The only time you have anything to worry about as far as the federal government is concerned is if you’re using your prescription to get weed and illegally selling to others.
Keep in mind not all dispensaries are what they should be. Some have been known to sell marijuana illegally out the back door, others sell more than the state allowed amounts.
California for example only allows people with medicinal marijuana prescriptions to posses up to 8 ounces and allows clinics to only sell one ounce to each patient per visit.
I’ve read where some clinics are willing to sell pounds AND the people who buy them end up illegally selling weed to the general public. When those people get busted it doesn’t take the authorities long to follow the trail back to the source.
A marijuana dispensary in my home town was raided recently, the reason was an employee of the clinic illegally sold a pound to an undercover officer for 5,700 dollars. The officer didn’t have a prescription or even indicate he had one. AND as a result of that action the city where I live no longer allows marijuana dispensaries within it’s borders.
There was another incident in a neighboring town which resulted in a double homicide. A person with a medical marijuana prescription bought a quarter pound which he intended to sell to a friend. Turned out his friend’s partner who also was in on the deal planned rob them. They resisted and were shot. The clinic that sold the weed was also shutdown.
Greed and stupidity, that’s the main reason why many clinics get busted.
Well they are required to pass those records along to the appropriate local law enforcement by law. Technically you are still criminals by federal standards, the feds won’t prosecute you for anything, if you’re in California it’s up to the local authorities to decide whether to charge you.
Dispensary are privately owned but protected by state laws, yet they conflict with federal laws. Or so they did. Obama figured out the obvious problem and there is no longer a conflict of interest and is completely legal. no worries, be happy