Utah Medical Marijuana Patient Could Face Death Penalty | The Daily Chronic

bigexplosion · 4 months

a no knock warrant in utah is the death penalty.

TexDen · 4 months

If I was on the jury my vote would be not guilty.

travio · 4 months

This is one of the major problems with no knock and knock and announce search warrants. There are times when these tactics make sense, but this really is not one of them. This was a single person who lived alone. A single night of surveillance could have given them enough information to create a better plan than a swat team knock and announce.

Pendecko · 4 months

6 fully armed guys busting in on a sleeping soldier with a pistol by his bed... There's a thing called job hazards too. Thinking you're a damn commando going in to "take down" this big threat. 90% of the situation was the attitude of the cops. Also: Black guy: Cops put some crack on him, if it's a white ex military guy: oh, we found this bomb too.

Dustindidit · 4 months

I think police forces, whoever is directly responsible for sending in SWAT for a drug bust should be fired, and tried in criminal court. Those five officers, while sad, are not the first victims of drug raids. The victims of drug raids are people like Jose Guerena and all the others killed without probable cause, in someone's house, people who were harming no one.

dopeboyhero · 4 months

ಠ_ಠ how the fuck...is this aggravated murder? If I remember correctly the articled stated he was asleep at the time of the raid and he woke up to the sound of people trying to break into his home. What would you think? You would instinctively try to protect yourself.

I don't feel sorry for the police officers. They should fucking deny orders to raid grow-ops. Seriously, fuck off. I hope they now know the war on drugs they fight is pointless cause it left them fucked up and one comrade fucking dead.

In Vancouver the cops executed a raid on a grow op and it left FOUR officers dead. No sympathy there.

VoodooIdol · 4 months

Look, folks. I'm a daily smoker and have been for 20 years. I'm all about legalization and have been fighting for it via protests (which I've been arrested for), donating to causes like NORML, etc etc. This guy is not a patient. He is a user plain and simple, just like I am. Creating bullshit article headlines like this (I'm looking at both the OP and The Daily Chronic) is not helping anyone. Be a little more honest and maybe we'll get a bit more respect.

tonitereprise · 4 months

"Since the incident, investigators have had Stewart's house blocked off with yellow police tape and have been combing through his house collecting evidence." Then exploding scary bombs to scare the neighbors, to shake up more news.

FTFY

"Since the incident, investigators have had Stewart's house blocked off with yellow police tape and have been combing through his house planting evidence."

rmblinman · 4 months

I wonder if this cops family feels their loved ones death was justified and meaningful for the protection of the American people

shamanicspacebum · 4 months

Goddamn fucking pigs deserve the death penalty.

mus1c · 4 months

The subject line was pretty different than the story. I was expecting a story about some poor guy with an MMJ card getting busted for some form of possession and being possibly sentenced to death for it(which would be outrageous_. What I read was a dude who killed a cop. Story line should really be "Utah man who killed cop faces death penalty, also loved trees-but hey who doesn't?"

ninthaxis · 4 months

it was most likely a no knock warrant, especially if they were suited up in full gear. They have done this shit in the past. Most likely a police cover up to justify the cop being killed and hopefully demonizing the defendant for a guilty plead. Typical shitty reporting and corruption of the police story. Police state yes it is.

neurolux · 4 months

This guy is a Patriot.

tokeable · 4 months

to bad all the cops didn't die

jefflololol · 4 months

Absolutely ridiculous. They don't bother to find out that he has mental problems and is likely asleep before busting in? They were almost asking for it imo

PixelDJ · 4 months

Police in Utah kicked in my door and pointed a gun at my (sleeping) little brother (who was living with me) over 3 grams or so of marijuana that was in my bathroom. They don't mess around here.

yppans · 4 months

No one will probably read this comment anyway, but the amount of people here celebrating a dead cop is really sickening. I've been raided. Yes, it sucks. No, it's not fair. SWAT teams aren't known for their people skills.

Aside from whatever situation, a person is dead. Someone's son, dad, husband, brother, and/or friend left for work that morning and is never coming back. Anyone who takes joy out of that, for whatever reason, is in need of a serious reality check.

tristanimator · 4 months

Imagine this was all about an unpaid parking ticket.....

Now realize marijuana prohibition is less enforced than unpaid parking tickets in some countries.

Nathan_BS · 4 months

Well this explains why my sister's anti-marijuana boyfriend tried to tell me about "a guy who was only high and shot and killed somebody". The only thing I could argue was that correlation didn't imply causation, because I didn't think anybody still believed in Reefer Madness.

Of course I had been out of the marijuana news loop for a few months, so this was a pretty big wake-up call, in a sense.

ninthaxis · 4 months

If the guy didn't like the strict enforcement of marijuana laws he could have moved to a state that did. If you aren't willing to deal with the consequences of your civil disobedience, then don't fucking coming crying when shit goes down.

tylerdmace · 4 months

Police found a bomb in his house, too. Guy was off his rocker.

OprahOfUpvotes · 4 months

While this is just another example on how fucked up the war on drugs is... this guy is not a MMJ patient. He was self medicating with MJ in a state where MMJ doesn't exist. I'm sorry but laws are laws, no matter how fucked up they are. I live in UT, I smoke MJ and I understand the consequences. The cops were stupid for not doing more investigation as to who this guy was and attempting to arrest him in a more reasonable fashion.

I'm not saying that this guy deserves the death penalty for shooting the cops and defending his home; he's just another smoker, for "medical" reasons or not, who's getting fucking over by an unjust system. What I am saying is he was doing something illegal and the cops were doing their jobs.

I know this will probably receive a lot of hate. Bring on the downvotes.

Frankeh1 · 4 months

"Utah Medical Marijuana Patient"

"self-medicates with marijuana"

So which one is it?

stringerbell · 4 months

I'm sick and tired of all the lies on Reddit.

Take this piece of shit for instance: the title clearly reads 'medical marijuana patient'.

This implies that he had a prescription and that the cops were completely in the wrong...

But, is that true???

No!

He said his son had never gone to the Veterans Administration to be diagnosed or seek help, but self-medicates with marijuana.

So, he's not in fact a 'medical marijuana patient' - he's a fucking drug addict, who uses those drugs illegally.

It's like calling Hugh Laurie a doctor because he plays one on tv!

OK, go ahead and start downvoting me now, like usual when I point out ideological propaganda and lies around here.

StaticBolt · 4 months

Miss-leading title, post loses all credibility.

PandaHysteria · 4 months

Jesus fucking christ, this the most misleading title ever.

incomplete · 4 months

Put him down, like you would a rabid dog.

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