LA Medical Marijuana Clinics Raided
The DEA is cracking down on this allegedly criminal activity. I took these quotes from the The International Herald Tribune.
Federal drug agents raided nearly a dozen medical marijuana clinics in California, seizing several thousand pounds of processed marijuana, along with weapons and money, authorities said.
Several people were detained, although no arrests were made after five dispensaries in West Hollywood and six others in Venice, Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley were searched Wednesday, said Sarah Pullen, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The raids highlighted a conflict between a California state law and the federal drug agency.
California voters in 1996 approved the Compassionate Use Act, which makes marijuana available by prescription for medicinal uses. The DEA, which does not recognize California laws legalizing medical marijuana use, has recently increased its enforcement.
“Today’s enforcement operations show that these establishments are nothing more than drug-trafficking organizations bringing criminal activities to our neighborhoods and drugs near our children and schools,” said Ralph W. Partridge, head of the DEA in Los Angeles.
Oh that is priceless, about as absurd as the federal policy that marijuana has no legitimate medical use. It is a far less damaging therapy than most of the prescription drugs for which it can be substituted.
July 19th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Medical marihauna is really quite a great medicine for a good deal of folks, it does not matter what some say. I know family who have been helped with medical marijuana.