Feds attack California's medical marijuana trade-again

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Feds attack California's medical marijuana trade-again

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES | Wed Jun 6, 2012 5:38pm EDT

(Reuters) - Federal authorities opened the latest front in their war on California's massive medical marijuana industry this week, filing property forfeiture lawsuits in a bid to shut down three dispensaries and sending warning letters to 34 people.

The moves by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles are the latest in an ongoing crackdown on what federal prosecutors say is a flourishing network of illegal cannabis suppliers operating across California under the cover of the state's medical marijuana law.

Authorities have now targeted more than 220 dispensaries -- deemed "marijuana stores" by prosecutors -- or indoor cultivation houses in the seven-county Central District of California alone, U.S. Attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek said.

Most have been closed or are facing eviction or have been the subject to additional federal law enforcement actions, he said. The Central District of California represents the largest federal law enforcement jurisdiction in the country.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-usa-marijuana-california-idUSBRE8551EE20120606

[Politicalboi]

1. When does this end?

I live in Bakersfield, and the idiots here voted out pot shops.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. This ends when we start defeating politicians who support it.

Obama is in California fund-raising today. I wonder if he hears the howls of anger and outrage. Somehow, I doubt it.

California is a safe Democratic state. It will be interesting to see how many vote third party.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. On a positive note, two prominent medical marijuana foes were defeated in the primary yesterday.

San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis lost her bid for the mayor nomination.

LA City Prosecutor Carmen Trutanich lost his bid for DA.

Smoke on that, losers!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. "..on what federal prosecutors say is a flourishing network of illegal cannabis suppliers...."

states rights, eh?


Most awesome priorites from our federal government......

Your tax dollars hard at work.

[wingzeroday]

5. whew

I feel safer already!

[bupkus]

6. I live in New Jersey where we've been waiting for 2 1/2 years

For Chris Christie to implement the Compassionate Use Act.

Christie said he wants to do everything right so he doesn't break the law and bring the feds to New Jersey because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

Yet he's threatening to bring sports betting to New Jersey without federal approval because he says the federal law is wrong on sports gambling.

This is a former U.S. Attorney talking. What bullshit. And when a Democratic president allows the kind of bullshit to go on that's happening in California, which automatically allies him with the likes of Chris Christie in my book, it's pretty damn hard to swallow.

Hey, President Obama, why don't stop this insane bullshit already and sign an executive order rescheduling Cannabis like DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young ruled it should be?