County of Butte v. Superior Court

Opinion

RAYE, J.

Real party in interest David Williams is a qualified medical marijuana patient who uses marijuana upon the recommendation of his physician. Williams belonged to a seven-member collective of medical marijuana patients who agreed to contribute comparable amounts of money, property, and labor to the collective cultivation of marijuana; each then would receive an approximately equal share of the marijuana produced. The marijuana was grown at Williams’s home.

In September of 2005 a Butte County Sheriff’s deputy came to Williams’s home without a warrant. Williams produced copies of…