Police officers in some medical marijuana states in the US, who once routinely seized illegal pot plants by ripping them out by their roots and stashing them away in musty evidence rooms to die are now thinking twice about the practice. In several states, police are being sued by people who want their marijuana back after prosecutors chose not to charge them or they were acquitted. Some one-time suspects are asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace dead plants. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/keep-those-pot-plants-potted-no-more-ripping-weed