Colorado Couple Sue Police Over Seized Medical Cannabis

A Ft. Collins, CO couple are suing police over medical marijuana which was seized and destroyed.

The Ft. Collins Coloradan reported on Jan. 17, 2008 ("Fort Collins Couple to Ask City for Reimbursement for Dead Marijuana Plants") that "The attorney for James and Lisa Masters, whose 39 medical marijuana plants were seized by Fort Collins police and later destroyed, plans to file a motion this afternoon asking the city pay the couple for the destroyed plants. Police confiscated the plants in an August 2006 raid on the Masters’ Fort Collins home. Criminal charges against the couple were dismissed in June 2007. A judge in November ordered police to return the seized plants. The plants were dead when police returned them in December."

The Coloradan noted that "U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates put the value of the plants at thousands of dollars each, according to attorney Brian Vicente."