Posted on 11/19/2017 11:48:49 AM PST by JoeProBono
Take a look at the picture at the start of this article. The one on the left is good ol' cannabis, the plant we know and love. The one on the right is kenaf hibiscus, a plant which is not marijuana. Could you tell the difference?
Well, a Nationwide Insurance agent couldn't - or didn't want to. What followed was an arrest and a lawsuit.
On Oct. 5, the agent spotted the hibiscus plants while investigating a fallen tree on the property of Buffalo Township, PA couple Edward and Audrey Cramer. He then told police they had marijuana on their property, providing photos that allegedly didn't show the flowers that would have identified the plants as hibiscus.
Two days later, police came to the property. Audrey Cramer answered the door, and she alleges that about a dozen officers were pointing assault-style rifles at her. She was kept in handcuffs - without being permitted to finish dressing - and placed under arrest. When Edward arrived at the house a half-hour later, he too was arrested, and the couple were kept in the patrol car for two hours.
Now, the couple is filing a lawsuit against Nationwide Insurance, the agent himself, Buffalo Township, and three of the town's police officers. The lawsuit alleges excessive force, false arrest, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other charges.
In a subsequent interview, Audrey Cramer said:
"I'm starting to understand why a lot of the public do not trust police officers...I really feel like I've been smacked in the face with this, and no, I don't think I'll ever trust a police officer again."
Edward Cramer Audrey Cramer Couple Handcuffed, Placed In Police Cruiser For Hours
Audrey was allegedly handcuffed, placed under arrest and put in the back of a police cruiser, and she says officers refused her requests to put on pants and shoes.
“I didn’t want too many people to know what had happened because I really don’t like being stood outside in my underwear,” Audrey said.
Aw, c’mon. They’re obviously dope kingpins. Plain as the nose on your face. /s
I hope they win YUUUGE from every defendant.
+1
Those folks look really dangerous.
And a flight risk no doubt.
The ability to arrest should include an ability to do the job.
“I hope they win YUUUGE from every defendant.”
And the cops wonder why everyone has a hard on for them. Glad no dog was injured or killed. Sessions is goading this kind of crap on.
Apparently Nationwide is NOT on your side.
“Aw, c’mon. They’re obviously dope kingpins. Plain as the nose on your face. /s”
The Elder Cartel. Heck, they run ads in the monthly AARP mag for medicinal herb. There’s a good chance they’ve installed a network of pushers in the local old folks homes and skilled nursing facilities. They look like smart business people...probably even control the vending machines in those elderly facilities.
>>Glad no dog was injured or killed.
Obviously they didn’t have one.
A cool 4 million bucks would work. 3 from Nationwide and 1 from the so called officers.
And there is also a federal case for violation of civil rights, unlawful search and seizure, hate crime.....man I would hate to be Nationwide. Their legal fees alone will be over a million.
Hope they win the lawsuit big time
I resent the fact that our “government” has the power (but not the right) to f*ck up peoples’ lives based on the plants growing in their yards. Government ALWAYS expands and usurps power that it doesn’t have the right to. It always turns fascist, if not stopped.
Yup! A regular Ma&Pa Barker!
I had no idea that habiscus looks like reefer!
I suppose they will be changing insurance companies soon.
Obviously they are too white to be even close to innocent. I say hang ‘em high!
Me too.
F the police. All of em.
what's that..? they've already been freed?
Ok, Sue The Pants Off the Po-Po People who Made the Hibiscus 2 Temporarily Not Free!
Seriesly. The stupidity of it deserves punishment.
What's next? Illegal vegetables? Growing rope fiber without a permit? (that last is against the law, and permits are not readily available).
Charlotte's Web...From Scientific American;
A rigorous study validates a cannabis-derived treatment for a rare, drug-resistant childhood epilepsy
Medical researchers have confirmed what some desperate parents have been claiming for years—that a nonpsychoactive component of marijuana known as cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce epileptic seizures in some children.Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the findings stem from a double-blind, placebo-controlled study—the most scientifically rigorous type of investigation possible. “This study clearly establishes cannabidiol as an effective anti-seizure drug for this disorder and this age group," says principal investigator Orrin Devinsky, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at New York University Langone Medical Center. “It certainly deserves to be studied in other types of epilepsy
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