Former Lance Cpl. Kevin Dickes wants his pot plants back, they are legal!

Former Lance Cpl. Kevin Dickes could have faced up to six years in prison after police raided his home and charged him with a felony count of cultivating marijuana. But last week, a prosecutor dropped the charge after confirming that Dickes is a licensed grower of medical marijuana.

Former Marine wants marijuana plants back

By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 19:09:11 EST

A former Marine and 1991 Persian Gulf War veteran is demanding that Denver-area police return dozens of marijuana plants they seized from his basement.

Kevin Dickes, 39, a construction worker and former lance corporal, could have faced up to six years in prison after Aurora, Colo., police raided his home April 27 and charged him with a felony count of cultivating marijuana.

But last week, a Colorado prosecutor dropped the charge after confirming that Dickes is a licensed grower of medical marijuana.

Dickes says he suffers severe pain in his legs stemming from shrapnel injuries sustained in Kuwait in early 1991. He was transporting a group of Iraqi prisoners of war when one of them detonated a grenade hidden under his clothing.

Dickes said he prefers marijuana to other pharmaceuticals. “It keeps me off the Percodine, and it’s better than OxyContin,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

“It may not relieve your pain, but it helps your mood swings — if you’re down, it will bring you up.”

On Wednesday, Dickes is going to state court to demand that police return the plants that he grew legally.
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They are legal for him to grow them. Pot helps a lot of veterans when the drug companies won't. Pot helps veterans when the VA won't. I think all PTSD veterans should be given a prescription for medical marijuana. After all, other civilizations have been using it for centuries. Isn't that where most medications come from? What's the problem? Is it because Nixon caved into the drug manufactures to make pot illegal? Do you have any idea how many veterans ended up in jail because pot helped them cope with what combat did to them? What about the other health problems all kinds of people have and pot is there only relief? Give them what works!