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Feds Storm Medical Marijuana Operation on Day Court Rules DC Can't Undermine State's Law
There’s not a single item in this article that doesn’t make me stuff-throwing, puppy-kicking angry.
Federal agents raided a Culver City medical marijuana dispensary and spent more than four hours there, making no arrests but leaving the shop in disarray, it was reported Friday.
Nice place you have here. Shame if anything were to happen to it...on the taxpayer’s dime.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrived about noon Thursday at Organica Collective in the 13400 block of Washington Boulevard, DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen told the Los Angeles Times.
“Marijuana remains a controlled substance, and it is illegal under federal law to possess, dispense or cultivate marijuana in any form,” she said.
Someone should probably teach DEA spokesperson Sarah Pullen a little bit about the timing of public statements:
The federal operation came on the day an appellate court in San Diego ruled that federal law does not preempt the state’s law allowing the use of medical marijuana—a ruling touted by supporters of California’s medical marijuana law as a significant win.
Unless Congress passed that one law making DEA spokespeople pope-like in their infallibility, this is a real black eye for the feds. Or it would be, if I thought any of them cared.
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