DEA hit 5 grow operations in Denver yesterday

[Dave_L]

Just said on the news the raid was on Columbian cartels that have moved here to get a stake in the "legal" side of the business and funnel the money back to Columbia.

This is my shocked face.....wait for it....any moment...

[BushMasterBoy]

Oh FFS stupid people smoking pot could burn down the Black Forest and then where would Obama be?

[Ronin13]

It would seem to me like there is an awful lot of conjecture on here without knowing a whole lot of facts behind all this. First off, no, I don't know all the facts, but in what has been released to the public in regard to what the DEA, DOR (State, not federal), DPD and other local LE agencies around the effected areas where these raids took place- it has less to do with the conflict between Federal Drug Policy and A-64/MMJ, and more to do with these businesses were in some way or form in violation of regulatory measures (ie illegal sales, underage sales, etc) or other state statutes. New drug laws have been put in place as of 7/1/13 and something tells me that this is the first enforcement of such statutes. It wouldn't surprise me if more details are released later. It also wouldn't surprise me if there are more of these raids coming in the near future, cracking down on those doing business outside the limits of what the laws (more to come) state.

[def90]

Because it sets a precendent for the future. We heard an article the other day how they stopped training police dogs to sniff out pot. That is either very short sighted, or prophetically long sighted.

Police dogs only have success rate of about 20% in detecting anything anyway. Their success rate is extremely exagerated much like polygraph tests and in many locations not admisable in court. Most hits by police dogs are planted hits where the dog knows it is supposed to alert based on a cue by the handler.

sent from a soup can and some string..

[Ronin13]

Police dogs only have success rate of about 20% in detecting anything anyway. Their success rate is extremely exagerated much like polygraph tests and in many locations not admisable in court. Most hits by police dogs are planted hits where the dog knows it is supposed to alert based on a cue by the handler.

sent from a soup can and some string..

I'm not 100% sure on that, but it would seem that kind of accusation is an attack on K-9 Officers' integrity and professionalism... which I would see more as rare- the vast majority of police are honest and have the integrity to not make up evidence. I wouldn't go nearly as far as to say "most" alerts by drug-sniffing K9s are planted based on cues by the handler. That's like saying "most vehicle searches are preformed on false pretenses by dishonest cops" which is simply not true. As far as evidence obtained by drug dogs- the SCOTUS ruled it's admissible in court- Florida V. Harris where "Justice Elena Kagan stated that the dog's certification and continued training are adequate indication of his reliability, and thus is sufficient to presume the dog's alert provides probable cause to search, using the "totality-of-the-circumstances" test per Illinois v. Gates." A decision made Feb 19, 2013.

[Colorado_Outback]

Oh FFS stupid people smoking pot could burn down the Black Forest and then where would Obama be?

I think your the one who needs to stop hitting the bong so hard, WTF are you talking about?

[jerrymrc]

I think your the one who needs to stop hitting the bong so hard, WTF are you talking about?

It is friday night.

[BushMasterBoy]

Its a joke and you are taking my posts way too seriously!

[skullybones]

Its a joke and you are taking my posts way too seriously!

Pretty shitty joke when taken in context of your ridiculous posting in the Black Forest thread. You drunk dude?

[BushMasterBoy]

Just use the ignore function, it works really good!