Americans For Safe Access Now has a story on the state of medical Marijuana in Colorado. It seems that under new rulings, police departments are required to return any Marijuana and paraphernalia to state sanctioned pot growers. A man in Denver intends to sue Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado for $360,000 in pot damages. How much do the police know about Marijuana? Lets take a look...

Thanks to a referendum passed in 2000, Article XVIII, Section 14 of the Colorado State Constitution stipulates that "any property... used in connection with the medical use of marijuana... shall not be harmed, neglected, injured, or destroyed while in the possession of state or local law enforcement officials."

Not being equipped with the growroom or know-how to maintain them, Aurora police simply uprooted the plants and threw them in the evidence room. Det. Shannon Lucy, an Aurora police spokesperson, illustrated her department's cultivation ignorance, explaining that they kept only the leaves, which she called the "only thing of value," not the buds in which most of the active ingredient, THC, resides.

Oh boy. This is a pretty good read, especially if you're in Colorado and use medical Marijuana.