California State & Local Cops Aided Tahoe DEA Dispensary Raid
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am | By: Radical Russ
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Federal agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in South Lake Tahoe on Thursday.
At about 11 a.m., five agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency — joined by members of the [California] Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, the South Lake Tahoe-El Dorado County Narcotics Enforcement Team and the South Lake Tahoe Police — served a federal search warrant on Patient to Patient Collective, located at 2314 Lake Tahoe Boulevard.
Agents seized between five and 10 pounds of processed marijuana and a “small amount” of U.S. currency from the collective, said DEA Special Agent Gordon Taylor.
Police made no arrests on Thursday.
Taylor declined to comment on additional details of the raid, saying Patient to Patient Collective is part of an ongoing investigation.
Say, Californians! How do you feel about voting to allow sick people to use marijuana free from police harassment, only to have your state, county, and city law enforcement helping to serve a federal warrant? Don’t you just love the idea that your California tax dollars paid for this raid? You helped to take a whole 5-to-10 pounds of dangerous marijuana off the streets of Tahoe, so the Californians who buy hard liquor at the grocery store and gamble in the Nevada casinos won’t have to fear those out-of-control medical marijuana patients. Sure, you could allow the dispensaries to operate and collect their sales tax revenue, or you could just legalize marijuana for all adults and collect the revenues from taxation, law enforcement savings, and a brand new hemp industry, but then you wouldn’t get enjoy your swell State Tax Refund IOUs this spring, would you?
Topics: bureau of narcotic enforcement, California, Collective, DEA, dispensaries, Dispensary, el dorado county, raid, south lake tahoe, Special Agent Gordon Taylor, state tax refund
i managed a club for ken. he employed 12 people.all were paid good wages ,which they used to pay for food,child care, living expenses and TAXES.All are now unemployed and add them to the unemployment rate.we kept all legal documents paid for an accountant.which showed profit loss margins.everything was done as outlined as legal in the state of California.people we served were all verified as medicaly able to receive our services on a daily basis.cancer chronic pain etc.we lost patients due to our tax which we added ,but our goal was to serve the public in a legal and compasionate way.our prices were always fair and a reflection of why Ken started this in the first place.It seems dispairing that state laws such as the death penalty are respected by the feds but compassionate care for patients voted as legal by our own populace is not.lastly if you go on the web.you can see there are many clubs open and un harrassed.yet as they remain open and in full operation some are shut down.there is definitly a method to the DEA madness.or possibly just madness to the DEA.Ultimatly when an absolute power which has no one to answer to exists bad shit happens HIL HITLER.
Just a thought. The federal agencies have money to hand out to local agencies, so it behooves the local agencies to stay on the good side of the FEDS. That is what happened in this case, but tht is just my guess.
The sovereign right of states doesn’t seem to apply when the desire of its citizens runs counter to the oligarchy’s own willfull direction. Alcohol, big tobacco, pharmacrap-industry, logging industry,oil and plastics industries. Behold the mighty HEMP CANNABIS and tremble for a COOL man inhabits the White house.
“I inhaled, that was the point.”
Do you know the contents of the warrant? Do you know what they were looking for when they entered the premises? You seem to assume this was a pot bust, how do you know?
You’re outraged, but how about you get all the facts first? This could be legit.
MrD, if they were looking for something sinister on the warrant, wouldn’t there have been an arrest made? When there is a “smash-and-grab” DEA raid of a dispensary which follows the pattern and profile of every other DEA raid of a dispensary over the past decade, excuse me if I make some basic assumptions.
What the hell?!!
The recent Garden Grove v. Felix Kha decision held that “it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal drug laws”.
So why’s it still happening???
By law, the feds have to enforce their own discriminatory, ineffective and destructive laws all by themselves!