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A medical marijuana group was pushing Friday to replant its crop after Clackamas County Sheriff's Office investigators seized more than 100 plants in a greenhouse raid earlier this week near Woodburn.
Shawn Flury of Oregon Green Cross said he is collecting plants from other medical marijuana groups around the state and will get new plants in the ground as quickly as possible.
He said the group serves about 35 patients who depend on a free ounce of marijuana twice a month to ease their ailments.
However, sheriff's officials say they seized the 110 plants from the group's rented greenhouse on South Elliott Prairie Road because the operation lacked the documentation needed to grow that many plants.
There have been other raids of people suspected of violating the state's medical marijuana law, but this week's raid involved an unusually large number of plants, officials said.
Flury insists he had the documents that show the seized plants were legal. He thinks a paperwork backlog prevented police from verifying the records with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, which registers growers and issues medical marijuana cards to patients.
Oregon's 5-year-old medical marijuana law allows people with "debilitating medical conditions" to grow no more than seven plants at a time with a doctor's endorsement. Only three of the seven can be mature plants.
Cardholders must register the growing site with the state. Cardholders also can designate a caregiver to grow marijuana for them.
The rules allow 30 working days after a grower takes over a cardholder's plants before the state must be notified. So even if there's nothing in the state's files on the day of a police raid, a large collection of plants can turn out to be legal if the paperwork comes in later.
Source: Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
Author: Sarah Hunsberger
Published: Saturday, May 29, 2004
Copyright: 2004 The Oregonian
Contact: letters@news.oregonian.com
Website: OregonLive.com
Shawn Flury of Oregon Green Cross said he is collecting plants from other medical marijuana groups around the state and will get new plants in the ground as quickly as possible.
He said the group serves about 35 patients who depend on a free ounce of marijuana twice a month to ease their ailments.
However, sheriff's officials say they seized the 110 plants from the group's rented greenhouse on South Elliott Prairie Road because the operation lacked the documentation needed to grow that many plants.
There have been other raids of people suspected of violating the state's medical marijuana law, but this week's raid involved an unusually large number of plants, officials said.
Flury insists he had the documents that show the seized plants were legal. He thinks a paperwork backlog prevented police from verifying the records with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, which registers growers and issues medical marijuana cards to patients.
Oregon's 5-year-old medical marijuana law allows people with "debilitating medical conditions" to grow no more than seven plants at a time with a doctor's endorsement. Only three of the seven can be mature plants.
Cardholders must register the growing site with the state. Cardholders also can designate a caregiver to grow marijuana for them.
The rules allow 30 working days after a grower takes over a cardholder's plants before the state must be notified. So even if there's nothing in the state's files on the day of a police raid, a large collection of plants can turn out to be legal if the paperwork comes in later.
Source: Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
Author: Sarah Hunsberger
Published: Saturday, May 29, 2004
Copyright: 2004 The Oregonian
Contact: letters@news.oregonian.com
Website: OregonLive.com
