Marijuana Militia

In an amazing break for Medical Marijuana reform, A Colorado judge has ordered the return of former U.S. Marine and Gulf War Veteran Kevin Dickes Marijuana Plants.

You’ll remember Kevin from our story about the Veteran demanding his weed back. Yesterday he got his wish.
Aurora, Colo., police raided Dickes’ home in April and seized plants growing in his basement. He was handcuffed, arrested and charged with a felony count of cultivating marijuana, which carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

“It’s great — I need my stuff back,” said Kevin Dickes, 39, a Denver-area construction worker who left the Marine Corps as a lance corporal in 1993.

A veteran of the Gulf War is demanding that the Denver Colorado Police Department return his seized plants.

On April 27th, Kevin Dickes a former lance corporal in the marine corp. had his house raided and was charged with a felony for “Cultivating Marijuana” and could have been sentenced to 6 years in prison.

After the prosecutor found out that Kevin was licensed medical marijuana patient, the charges were promptly dropped.

On Wednesday Kevin will appear in court to demand the return of his legally grown plants.

Dickes’ Attorney stated “Colorado law requires them to keep the plants alive and safe”

By Carlos Illescas
The Denver Post

CENTENNIAL — Charges were dropped today against a Desert Storm veteran who was arrested for growing 71 marijuana plants in his basement.

Kevin Dickes, who has a medical-marijuana card, faced up to six years in prison. He was scheduled to go to trial in Arapahoe County District Court in February.

Dickes said he needed the marijuana to help him with the pain he has suffered daily since a grenade landed next to him in Kuwait when he served there as a Marine in 1991. He has no feeling below his right calf and suffers from chronic vascular disease.