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Med-West Legal Defense

Legal San Diego based medical cannabis company recovering from raid and asset forfeiture

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Med-West Legal Defense

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Med-West Legal Defense

Med-West Legal Defense

Legal San Diego based medical cannabis company recovering from raid and asset forfeiture

Legal San Diego based medical cannabis company recovering from raid and asset forfeiture

Legal San Diego based medical cannabis company recovering from raid and asset forfeiture

Legal San Diego based medical cannabis company recovering from raid and asset forfeiture

James Slatic
James Slatic
James Slatic
James Slatic
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San Diego, United States
$29,345 USD 60 backers
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Legal California medical cannabis business recovering from raid, bank accounts frozen

Assets Frozen. We need your help for our legal defense fund so we can fight for the future of the legal cannabis industry in California and America

On January 28, 2016 at 7:30 a.m., approximately 30 officers in body armor, helmets and carrying automatic weapons, sledgehammered the front door of Med-West, a San Diego-based company that makes legal cannabis-based medicines for legal dispensaries in California.

Interestingly enough, the local news media knew about the raid and splashed the news over the public airwaves. They reported that the officers had a search warrant for a suspected “Hash Oil Lab”. Cash was seized. Bank accounts were frozen. Two employees of Med-West were handcuffed and detained for hours and later arrested. The officers gave each other high fives as they left the building with their haul.

Just another drug bust?

No. It wasn’t.

Med-West is a legal business, that is highly regulated. Trusted in the cannabis industry and led by a cannabis pioneer who has helped influence national drug policy in multiple states.

James Slatic, a serial entrepreneur and CEO of San Diego based business Med-West Distribution, LLC, wasn't at the building during the raid and has not been arrested or charged. Slatic created the company to make and sell CO2 extracted medical cannabis products, including vape pens and cartridges. Slatic is part of the movement that wants to help create a great new American industry, and to stop putting people in jail for this helpful plant.

He has an entrepreneurial vision of helping people and raising awareness of the many options of medical cannabis and giving back to be of service to this new industry. James was a founding member of the National Cannabis Industry Association, and founding board member of California Cannabis Industry, and Nevada Cannabis Industry Associations, sits on the Board of Marijuana Policy Project, and is a regular speaker at industry and activism events for CalNorml and Drug Policy Alliance.

Med-West medicines are not the crude products of yesteryear. Rigorous laboratory testing, in a city-licensed facility, is done throughout to ensure proper potency and purity. Importantly, Med-West cannabis oil products are produced within strict adherence to state laws using a CO2 extraction method. And importantly, NO CO2 extraction took place at this facility.

Med-West does not sell their products to individual patients, only in wholesale to licensed dispensaries. City officials in San Diego were regular visitors to the 14,000 square-foot facility. Even police officers had stopped by for a visit earlier in the year. But just a few weeks after a new statewide law, that Slatic helped write and pass, took effect a local DA preformed a "smash and grab" on Med-West, and somebody called the media.

Follow the Money

The lives of James, his wife and daughters and the employees of Med-West changed drastically on January 28, 2016.

Law enforcement personnel raided Med-West took everything, in. All the companies products, raw materials, computers, hard drives, laptops, files, tax and patient records were seized, along with a large sum of cash due to be used for payroll and product purchases.

In the aftermath of this raid, 21 employees are now out of work, and patients in the hundreds of collectives we served were deprived of their medicine.

It appears that money for at least some of the personnel who planned and conducted the raid was paid from federal funds designated for homeland security ... to protect and defend our nation from terrorism.

Slatic’s Assets, Even Personal and Family Bank Accounts, Have Been Frozen 

This includes his wife and teenage daughters’ accounts as well. His wife, Annette, is a Federal employee at the VA Hospital in La Jolla, and has nothing to do with the business. Their daughter is a student at San Jose State, and could not even buy food at school. According to his bank, this was done with nothing more than a signed letter from a San Diego police detective. The bank will not provide his attorneys with a copy of the reported court order, nor will the police or D.A.’s office.

A Simple Request

Help us fight back by contributing to the Med-West Legal Defense Fund.

With their assets frozen, Slatic and his team need funds to pay attorneys, consulting experts, and others who will help them fight back against this misguided raid.

An escrow account has been established and fiduciary controls have been put in place to protect the integrity of the funds raised. The funds will be used to pay attorney’s fees and for the myriad of expenses that come along with a fight against the government.

Financial support during this critical time will be deeply appreciated ... some in the industry have already promised to help once this fund is established ... but we would also appreciate small, individual contributions from people who share our belief in the fledgling American cannabis industry.

Truth is on our side. James Slatic and Med-West need those who believe in the American Cannabis industry to provide them with the financial support they need to win this fight. If this can happen in San Diego, California … it can happen anywhere.

What We Need & What You Get

We have the following available for donors:

  • 80 Silver California coins $1,000
  • 70 Silver Nevada coins $1,000
  • 20 Kayman Bikes™ Flash E-Bike for donors of $5000 
  • Whatever we raise that is not used we will help others in similar situations


All proceeds go to legal costs, and other fees and costs toward the business opening again to help patients. Whatever we raise that is not used will go to help others in similar situations They are seeking to open (in a new location) for patient's care and medicine soon.  For more information, you can search Med-West San Diego on google, find them on instagram MedWestLLC, or facebook MedWestDistribution page.

Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Earl Blumeneur (D-OR) with James Slatic Discussing Asset Forfeiture and the Med-West Raid 



Other Ways You Can Help

Not everyone is able to contribute financially. Here are some other ways that we are asking you to help:

Thank you for your support!

Web Sources:

MED-WEST, http://www.med-west.com (accessed February 10, 2016).

FOX 5 SAN DIEGO, http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/01/28/hash-oil-business-halts-operations-as-detectives-search-lab/ (accessed January 28, 2016).

NBC 7 SAN DIEGO, http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Police-raid-hash-oil-lab-kearny-mesa-366884221.html (accessed January 28, 2016).

NBC 7 SAN DIEGO, http://www.cbs8.com/story/31086445/police-raid-kearny-mesa-business-suspected-of-illegally-producing-hash-oil (accessed January 28, 2016).



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