DEA to Medical Marijuana Club Landlords: Your Stores Could Be Seized

[The Straight Story]

DEA to Medical Marijuana Club Landlords: Your Stores Could Be Seized
Written by Jason Kobely, Internet News Producer

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is using a new tactic against Northern California medical marijuana dispensaries.

In recent weeks, DEA agents have sent letters to their landlords warning them of jail time, stiff fines and even forfeiture of their property if landlords allow tenants to peddle pot.

The letters have "definitely caused a panic," said Nathan Sands, a spokesman for the Compassionate Coalition, a medical marijuana education group.

Federal law bars marijuana sales, but California voters in 1996 approved a measure legalizing medical pot.

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[ThePowerofWill]

1. Really putting the pressure on while they can.

A new administration might have other priorities. You would think we would use our law enforcement resources in a much more effective manner.

[killbotfactory]

2. Let's oppress and ruin the lives of harmless people who just want to ease their suffering!

Yay!

[The Straight Story]

3. It is pretty damned sad indeed (nt)

[Mythsaje]

4. The modern equivilant of a horse head in the bed...

Fuck the DEA.

[Kajsa]

5. Nevermind that WE the voters in CA,

legalized medicinal pot in '96.

:nuke:

I don't want to hear one more friggin Repub
EVER talk about states rights, again!

:grr:

[walldude]

9. Yep, Republicans want smaller government.. unless the smaller

government does something they are against..

[Kajsa]

10. You've got that right!

n/t

[Warpy]

6. DEA = evil

Since they've utterly failed to stop the flood of heroin, cocaine and Mexican meth into this country, they've decided to crack down on easy targets: the sick and doctors who try to treat them. This stuff has been going on for years, and as an RN, I can tell you that the paperwork over giving any narcotics is nightmarish. As a chronic pain sufferer, I can tell you that getting appropriate treatment is nearly impossible.

I want those bastards against the wall first come the revolution. We can follow them with insurance company CEOs and then maybe the neocons.

[HuffleClaw]

7. not legal in the least imo

not remotely.

[riverdeep]

8. Oh yeah, this is a priority.

You know, all those pot smokers breaking into houses and carjacking and committing robberies. Especially the elderly and the chronic pain sufferers.

What about the Republican mantra of states rights, keeping the Fed out of people's lives? Only when it comes to keeping blacks out and 'saving' globules of cells in the uteri does it matter.