Just a week or so after word spread that local marijuana dispensaries are starting to reopen in Bakersfield the local sheriff’s office has raided one and arrested three men.
Kern County deputies and officials with the DEA served a search warrant Wednesday at the Green Cross Compassionate Co-Op at 309 Bernard Street in east Bakersfield.
They arrested three men, Albert Juarez, 40; Adam Romero Valenzuela, 27; and Brandon Neal Luck, 24. All three were booked on charges of selling and possessing marijuana as well as conspiracy.
Deputies said they also found two pounds of “high grade” marijuana and two loaded handguns.
Bakersfield once had at least a half dozen licensed medical marijuana dispensaries but they all closed in 2007 after sheriff’s raids.
via Deputies raid marijuana dispensary and arrest three – Bakersfield.com.
56% of Californians support outright legalization of marijuana, and public support for medical marijuana runs in the 70%-80% range. Even if the sheriff had reason to believe this dispensary may have been operating outside of Attorney General Brown’s guidelines (for-profit vs. non-profit), why bring in the DEA? (To get them on federal charges where they can’t use medical marijuana as a defense, I presume.) I think we may be looking at a Kern County Sheriff that will have trouble getting re-elected. Why don’t we tell him so?
Mailing Address:
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
1350 Norris Road
Bakersfield, CA 93308-2231
E-Mail addresses:
Sheriff Donny Youngblood
sheriff@kernsheriff.com
Phone Numbers:
Sheriff’s Headquarters: (661) 391-7500
FAX: (661) 391-7515
Yeah, tell me again how Obama’s on our side.
Do we have a hypocrite in the White House? You tell me:
Smokin’ weed in his youth but he authorizes the arrest of entrepreneurs in his dotage.
Just like on schools: He’s for fancy private schools for his kids but crappy public schools for kids with poor parents.
Fuck Bakersfield.
Fuck DEA.
Fuck OBAMA.
No, really.