{"id":10096,"date":"2014-07-10T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T06:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2014-07-10T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T06:10:53","slug":"government-uses-forfeiture-laws-to-claim-offenders-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/government-uses-forfeiture-laws-to-claim-offenders-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Government uses forfeiture laws to claim offenders’ property"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who says that the federal and provincial governments are soft on marijuana crimes may need to rethink his or her opinion. Though it is far from universal, there are a number of cases in which the government will attempt to seize an offender’s property solely because he or she had a\u00a0marijuana grow op<\/a>\u00a0on the land.<\/p>\n

Because of criminal forfeiture laws, the government may have a claim to any land that is used in the commission of a crime. Ontarians who use their homes to grow marijuana could see the government trying to evict them and sell their homes as part of their punishment for violating the drug laws.<\/p>\n

Of course, this does not happen with every single conviction for drug cultivation or manufacturing, but it is a real risk. Though the National Post uses an example from Alberta of the provincial government trying to seize a woman’s home for growing pot on her property, it also mentions a gunsmith from northern Ontario who lost most of his family’s life savings and is currently fighting to keep his home after he allowed his gun licenses to lapse.<\/p>\n

Should the Ontario government wish to seize someone’s home under a restitution, compensation or forfeiture law just because it was involved in a grow op, it may just have the power to do so.<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting that someone convicted of a drug cultivation or manufacturing crime may also face fines, jail time and a host of other criminal penalties in addition to the risk of a major forfeiture.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>National Post, “When ‘tough on crime’ goes too far,” Jesse Kline, July 9, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who says that the federal and provincial governments are soft on marijuana crimes may need to rethink his or her opinion. Though it is far from universal, there are a number of cases in which the government will attempt to seize an offender’s property solely because he or she had a\u00a0marijuana grow op\u00a0on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-manufacturing-cultivation","tag-drug-manufacturing-cultivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}