Anyone remember the great Valentine's Day Dillon pot bust?
Felony charges are expected to be filed next week in a large scale marijuana bust that occurred near here recently.
Local and state law officers seized 96 pot plants from a mobile home north of Dillon, said Blair Martenson, an agent in charge with the Southwest Montana Drug Task Force in Butte.
The home included plants in all stages of growth, which is typical of larger pot growing operations, he said.
"This was a marijuana growing operation that was pretty well sophisticated with the way it was set up," Martenson said.
The reality is, of course, a bit different:
Scott Day, who is terminally ill, was front and center at the conference just one month after the DEA's Southwest Montana Drug Task Force raided his home and reported they confiscated 96 marijuana plants. Day has not been charged in the incident.
For the last 12 years, Day said, he has managed unthinkable chronic pain - the result of a degenerative congenital condition called mucopolysaccharidosis - with marijuana.
"It's debilitating," Day said. "It hurts so much and right now I'm without access to pain management that was working," he said.
The 34-year-old Day said he suffers arthritis, muscle spasms, joint inflammation and pain, disintegrated spinal discs, cataracts and glaucoma as a result of the disease that often proves fatal in childhood.
"Without marijuana my muscles hurt. Everything hurts," Day said of the weeks he's spent without marijuana since the bust.
Glad to see we're using taxpayer money and valuable police work on "scumbags" like these.
While Montana passed a voters' initiative to legalize medicinal marijuana - and it's possible Day can still avoid prosecution under state law -- the SCOTUS allowed lawmakers to ignore state drug laws when they conflict with federal law.
Tom Daubert: "These are the only patients required to break federal law every day and make their own medicine. They need to be left alone."
Amen. |
