The Mackinac Center for Public Policy documents Michigan State Police using civil asset forfeiture to freeze the bank accounts and take the property of two men for months without even charging them with a crime.
One man, Wally Kowalski, who grows medical marijuana to distribute to low-income people who use the substance, shares his story of police raiding his property and destroying his plants, which were in a secured garden enclosed by a barbed-wire fence. Kowalski notes the police only seized evidence that had value which would later be sold at a police auction.
According to Reason, Kowalski said the police were giddy after searching his house to find his financial papers.
READ MORE:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/06/michigan_police_seize_mans_property_over_medical_marijuana_face-masked_jack-booted_thugs.html
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