San Diego police cooperate with DEA
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009The San Diego Police Department cooperated with a multi-agency task force, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to raid at least six medical cannabis collectives in the San Diego area today. Today’s action puts new urgency behind the calls for clarity on the Administration’s policy, and underscores the danger of local cooperation with federal law enforcement. It may be difficult for medical cannabis patients and advocates to maintain faith in comments made by the President and US Attorney General Eric Holder if DEA raids continue in California and other medical cannabis states. San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has been a vocal opponent of safe access and repeatedly cooperated with the DEA in 2007-2008 to close approximately twenty facilities. Her cooperation is almost certainly a factor in today’s raids.
You can see video of the raid online, including the police department shoving a handcuffed and wheelchair-bound man into a squad car.
Details are still coming in, but the San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) reports raids at the following patients’ associations: SDDC, Top Quality, Natures RX, SDDS San Marcos, Answerdam, Movment in Action, Healing Dragon, Green Kross, PB Collective, Hillcrest Compassion, Medicinal Solutions , Green Tree Solutions, Total Herbal Care, and Kush Lounge.
