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[marmar]

Feds Crack Down on "World's Largest" Medical Marijuana Dispensary


Looks like the Feds are going after an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that calls itself the world's largest, and is featured on the Discovery reality TV show Weed Wars.

Reuters reports:

Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest, as part of a crackdown by U.S. authorities on California's massive cannabis trade.

The lawsuits, filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, seek forfeiture of two properties where Harborside Health Center operates, said Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

Haag said, "The larger the operation, the greater the likelihood that there will be abuse of the state's medical marijuana laws and marijuana in the hands of individuals who do not have a demonstrated medical need."

Meanwhile, the dispensary says on its website, "Harborside has nothing to be ashamed of, and will contest the Federal actions openly and publicly, with every legal means at our disposal."


By Lauren Kelley | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at July 12, 2012, 9:25 am


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1027087/feds_crack_down_on_%22world%27s_largest%22_medical_marijuana_dispensary/

[backscatter712]

1. Civil forfeiture is an unconstitutional abomination. All who participate are un-American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture

They couldn't be troubled with actually prosecuting people and seizing property as a punishment for a lawful conviction. Noooooo. They sue the property and take it from people who have not been charged with crimes, so they can make it a civil, rather than criminal case, and thus lower the burden of proof. In fact, under civil-forfeiture proceedings, the owner must prove to the government that his/her property has not been used in a crime, so effectively it's a guilty-until-proven-innocent perversion of law. It's a disgusting sidestep of the Bill of Rights, and any red-blooded American should be not just against it, but ready-to-get-your-guns against it.

It's the law our criminal police gangs use to steal property from us to fund their militarization.

Any DEA or federal scumfuck who uses or participates in civil asset forfeiture is an un-American, unpatriotic, anti-freedom, authoritarian piece of subhuman garbage.

They are a fucking cancer on American freedom. America's in stage 4, and desperately needs chemotherapy.

[pipoman]

2. We agree..

[meow2u3]

4. One exception to civil forfeiture being unconscionable

The civil forfeiture of banksters', corporate crooks', and billionaires' assets. I say damn the consequences--take all their money and make the Kochroaches and banksters sleep on the streets.

[backscatter712]

5. Maybe if the "Justice" Department had the testicles to prosecute the billionaire banksters...

They could get some convictions, and thus lawfully seize the fuckers' ill-begotten gains and return them to the people.

But that would require someone with the gonads to fight real crime instead of bullying MMJ providers and patients...

[Go Vols]

3. So much for leaving the dopers alone.

It is fucked up when the Feds impose their will over that of the people of the state that voted to legalize such business.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

6. You'd think if it was easy enough to stop deporting immigrants...

And enforcing DOMA... other laws could be ignored.