got a friend charged for the weight of the edibles

[jakeh]

I have a friend who was arrested over a year ago with a dozen plants, 1/2 ounce and 8 brownies. His indictment read that the manufacture was a 3 year/$3k max fine for the 12 plants. The shocker was they weighed the 8 brownies that contained roughly a quarter oz and since it was 8 separate units they are charging him with possession of over 200 grams (flour, butter, sugar, chocolate and yes some pot) with intent to distribute. No scales found or bagged pot other than his personal stash. Is this common procedure for edibles? Anyone with experience on this I'd like to hear about it. He is in a nonmedical state but does have glaucoma.
Out of curiosity the indictment reads schedule I drug which I know cannabis is considered and is lumped in with heroin and cocaine due to no medicinal value and high potential for abuse. How can the feds fund marijuana research through the Univ of Ms, distribute to patients for medical reasons and classify it schedule I? Because they can is about all I can figure.

 

[Kuroth]

Was this his first offense? Or does he have a history?

 

[vta]

Your friend needs to lawyer up! Any good lawyer can get those charges reduced or even thrown out.

 

[jakeh]

He has no record. Just an aging hippie that doesn't consume much of anything he doesn't grow himself whether food or pot. He has lawyered up and his lawyer was surprised at the distribution as well as counting the brownie weight. A year will tell a lot.

 

[anditwasfun]

Here's a little story for you...grab the popcorn.

About 5 years ago in a non-med state, one of my friends we'll call Mickey was trying to get ready for a little concert he was going to. He had an apartment with one of his older cousins (he was 18/19 at the time) and he was always at work, so generally nobody was over there unless he invites them over. That particular day he didn't have anybody over, cause he was making a batch of brownies. He had somewhere in the neighborhood of an ounce or so left after he made his butter, and was letting the butter cool. He went to his room and decided to play some Rock Band, halfway through his 1st song there's a knock at the door. By the time he finishes and gets to the door, nobody is there. This strikes him ass odd, but given all the distractions surrounding him he made nothing of it and continued to jam out. About 2 minutes later, he hears his door opening. By the time he turns around, there are 4 officers and a maintenance man in his house and he has a shotgun in his face.

Homie got charged with PWISD 1,6xx grams of marijuana. They weighed the fucking butter in the jar and tacked it on there. He only saw probation and a few months if i recall, and I don't think he had much of a record prior to this instance. Knowing him, there are probably some holes in the story but that's why I called it a story lol.


Another friend of mine just got raided the other day...they got a tip he was a major mover in the area, probably by this grungy dike who got busted with lots of opium...they raided his mom's house when noone was home, he got the alarm alert, his mom went home, then he did...they found a glass extractor and weighed it with the run bud in it....PWISD 170 grams. They thought this guy had 100 packs on deck lmao and all they caught him with was a fucking glass tube with 1 1/4oz of bud in it which in the state my friend was in is only a misdemeanor. They left his extensive glass collection, and there was an eighth of oil they didn't even notice...and a shit ton of reclaim he's been saving up. That day he was telling he needs to go home and clean out his extractor...I wonder what the outcome would have been should he have done that in a timely manner.

 

[budderfly]

In my state it seems edibles and extracts are treated no differently than regular plant material, which is good. It seems silly to have worse charges cause you made butter or bubble hash. The police may weigh the whole brownie or the butter, but if it affects the length of the sentence it should be (relatively) easy to dispute in court.

 

[Nosmo King]

Moral of the story...don't make pound cake in a non mmj state

 

[RetroGrow]

In my state it seems edibles and extracts are treated no differently than regular plant material, which is good. It seems silly to have worse charges cause you made butter or bubble hash. The police may weigh the whole brownie or the butter, but if it affects the length of the sentence it should be (relatively) easy to dispute in court.

Everything about these laws is "silly".
Also stupid, ignorant, and prejudicial.
There is no truth or integrity behind this prohibition.
The pigs who enforce these laws are dirt bags.