(LAist Blog) From lawsuits to raids, around 20 local marijuana dispensaries today were subject of various law enforcement activities. As the DEA served a search warrant to Organica Collective in Culver City this morning, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office announced the filing of lawsuits against three medical marijuana dispensaries, including Organica, which has been subject of raids in the past.
Somebody's pants are on fire, Mr. Attorney General...
“It’s a separate thing,” explained Sarah Pullen with the DEA. “We were aware of each other’s operation today.” Pullen could not elaborate further than that search warrants being served. Witnesses tell the LA Times that three men were seen detained in handcuffs.
Los Angeles City Attorneys said nuisance and narcotics abatement lawsuits were filed against Organica and two Holistic Caregivers locations for violating the Narcotics Abatement Law, Public Nuisance Law and the Sherman Food, Drug and Cosmetics Law. Organica’s owner, Jeffrey Joseph, is the subject of an arrest warrant for sales of marijuana.
The recent medical marijuana ordinance passed by the Los Angeles City Council has nothing to do with today’s activities as that law has not been finalized. However, the City Attorney’s office contends the sale of marijuana is illegal under state law. Collectives, where the costs of cultivation are shared, are legal, they say.
City Attorneys also “sent eviction letters to owners of 18 different dispensaries and owners of the properties engaged in the sale of marijuana by dispensary employees,” according to a press release.
What was that Attorney General Eric Holder said?
What was that President Obama said?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We don’t want to hear word parsing excuses – oh, but they aren’t legal under state law; oh, they’re not a collective, etc. The results are the same: medical marijuana patients being terrorized by federal authorities as they try to get their medicine.
Will you send the armed agents when California votes for outright legalization this November? Will you cling so desperately to another failed prohibition that you’re willing to pit the federal government against its largest state?
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Cia, fda, dea, dot, doh , nsa, fbi , atf you notice how all the government departments have three letters???? Anal man very anal.
So very true. It is not like this was law anyway, it was a memo for crying out loud. There is only one solution: Legalizae it for all, set in stone. The government can´t be trusted to uphold laws, so why could they keep their word on a memo. CEO´s get away with theft all the time when a guy is caught holding up a liqour store he is sentanced to a nickel in the state pen. It really sucks, so lets change it!
“It’s the same old wine, in a brand new bottle”, he kept singing….when do y’all understand it the mo-nay honey! Hell, when it talks, even the O man listens. Things won’t change till it get real bad and more get killed and incarcerated. We have the power to stop it, just not the enthusiasm to actually do it yet. Kinda like health care.
One should note that the policy statement that was released specifically stated that they reserved the right to change their minds at any time for any reason or no reason at all.
Any good writer of fiction wants to leave a door open that wide, in case it becomes too obvious that his pretext is too unstable to carry the fictional concept.
The only “weapon” we have that can end the war on drugs is to legalize marijuana.
Government as usual lie to get elected then do whatever you want.
And people wonder why someone would fly an airplane into a fed building
These officials are about to lighting a powder keg. The people of this country are going to start fighting back and we will end up in a civil war. When will they learn the drug war is a war on the American People and the People are tired of it?
They keep this shit up, rioting will ensue. Time to reschedule the recently proven most effective medicine in all the world, and disband DEA as one of those “unproductive” programs the new Obama commission is supposed to be getting rid of.
I don’t even want to hear Holder’s “reasoning” for this latest assault on reason. If Leonhart gets the job, that’s just the last fucking straw. The whole west coast should secede from this police-state “Union”.
It will indeed be interesting, come June or November, whenever it is in fact legalized in California, Oregon or Washington. All three would be good. You can’t arrest everybody, dumbass Dregs of Ecroaching Authority.