Cops
must return pot
HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) — Acting on court orders,
Huntington Beach police returned 30 grams of pot taken from a medical marijuana
patient last year.
An appellate court ruled in a Garden Grove case that
seized medical marijuana must be returned to a patient, and three weeks ago the
California Supreme Court declined to review the appeals court ruling.
That meant Huntington Beach resident David Alan Lucas
could retrieve his high-grade purple urkel marijuana and a couple of smoking
pipes. The 43-year-old man, who uses pot to relieve stress, says he’s surprised
to get it back.
Police Capt. Chuck Thomas says the department is
complying with the court order. California voters in 1996 approved the
Compassionate Use Act allowing medical marijuana use.