John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.
What is the crime officer? Enjoying a meal? A succulent weapons grade explosive meal?
Also, note that the arrest predates Texas marijuana decriminalization
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY GRENADE LAUNCHER
And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp plants?
GENTLEMEN, THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
Hol’ up, it says a grenade launcher, which is actually legal to own, it doesn’t say he had illegal HE grenades. Important distinction.
The problem is “weed” and even if legal “weed+guns” wasn’t until 2023 (and even still kinda a grey area but basically illegal).
It says he was convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned.
Yes, but unless I missed it, not for having “grenades.”
It also just so happens that at the time of his conviction (well kinda sorta still, actually) it was illegal to have weed and guns at the same time. That and anywhere weed is legal even now, 1,000 plants is well above the commonly single digit limit on plants unless he has a commercial growers permit of some sort (but then, he could probably still have the guns/launcher actually).
Free my man he didn’t do shit.
You almost certainly did.
That too, certainly. Probably could have been convicted of more if the DA and the Judge had been extra sadistic.
Check again. Find me anything anywhere that says he has high explosive rounds for the launcher. I’ll wait, because you can’t, because he didn’t.
Although don’t many decriminalization or legalization laws also have an upper limit on how many plants you can grow for personal use? I could still see some intent to distribute charge with 1000 plants
I still don’t see a victim of crime here. All I see is a victim of unjust laws
God forbid someone pick up a horticulture hobby.
So, technically yes. But Texas decriminalization came out of a court case around what constituted medical marijuana under a 2019 law. In this case, the issue was a court ruling in which cops had to prove a certain Delta-9 THC level in a product in order to seek prosecution. And the process for determining that value was so expensive and unreliable that enforcing the law was functionally impossible.
Subsequently, a number of major municipalities and DAs basically gave up on prosecuting these cases, leading to de facto legalization.
Makes sense. FWIW I’m not defending the law, just seeking all the info
Sounds like a good semeritan to me