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Post by avordvet on Oct 7, 2016 16:21:56 GMT -5
Raid! National Guard, State Police descend on 81-year-old’s property to seize single pot plantBy SCOTT MERZBACH, Friday, September 30, 2016 AMHERST — All that remains of the solitary marijuana plant an 81-year-old grandmother had been growing behind her South Amherst home is a stump and a ragged hole in the ground. Margaret Holcomb said she was growing the plant as medicine, a way to ease arthritis and glaucoma and help her sleep at night. Tucked away in a raspberry patch and separated by a fence from any neighbors, the plant was nearly ready for harvest when a military-style helicopter and police descended on Sept. 21. In a joint raid, the Massachusetts National Guard and State Police entered her yard and cut down the solitary plant in what her son, Tim Holcomb, said was a “pretty shocking” action — one that he argues constitutes unlawful surveillance and illegal search and seizure. “It’s scary as hell,” said Tim Holcomb. www.gazettenet.com/MarijuanaRaid-HG-100116-5074664
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Post by avordvet on Oct 20, 2016 4:34:56 GMT -5
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