The Police Raided My Legal Weed Business | WEEDIQUETTE

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Published 2024-08-03
Even though medical pot is legal in Michigan, weed arrests are up and cops raid mom and pop caregivers on minor technicalities in order to seize and sell their most valuable stuff.

This episode of Weediquette first aired on VICE TV in 2016. Weed laws in the US have since changed.

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Intro 00:00
Police Raiding Caregivers 01:49
What is the Purpose of Asset Forfeiture 08:42
The Minor Technicalities 12:16
The Go-To Marijuana Defense Lawyer in Michigan 14:38

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All Comments (21)
  • @JasperPeters
    15:38 the cops ain’t lying. They couldn’t care less about the weed, they care about all the valuables they can steal!
  • @icepick2222
    "i was a true warrior in the war on drugs" Everyone immediately hates him
  • @Dannyboy1550
    Judges blocking journalists from showing the face of police officers is wrong. Judges have too much power to block our rights to a free press, it's disgusting.
  • @colishamaya
    He summed up the mindset for a police state in the first 5 seconds.
  • It's a f*ck*n joke to still criminalize weed. Are there no real problems in 2024?
  • Doesn't the government have anything better to do than to mess with potheads
  • @Primo978
    These are the real gangs of America
  • I'd bet all my money that the cop responsible for the raid has a family member or friend who runs a competitive dispensary.
  • Seeing that poor girls tears due to her PTSD from the gross abuse of power by the Drug Task Force is pure evil.
  • Welcome to the game… They left the lights so that you would grow again and they would come down and kick your doors in again😂
  • I hate watching these videos and not realizing unti 15 minutes in that it's from 2016.
  • What’s really sad is if it was illegal, regardless of what people think, shutting everything down would be fine but these people go through the process of doing everything legally, getting every approval, and still get screwed over
  • Police have too much power and almost zero accountability. How do we fix the system?
  • @CJKile
    iv'e seen this corruption go on my entire life here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
  • @imdoneplus
    See the thing is, they aren’t going to do this to the big businesses like Lume or Cookies, they’re going to take out the smaller growers. That is totally on purpose. It’s really that simple.
  • Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
  • @realdeal8303
    As a black American when the Marijuana laws weren't legal ......how many families felt this sick procedure. This happening to any family is sad 😢