“GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Federal agencies conducted 26 raids on medical marijuana facilities in 13 Montana cities this week, as agents seized thousands of marijuana plants and froze about $4 million in bank funds.The raids stunned medical marijuana advocates, many of whom believed the Obama administration’s policy was to leave states with medical marijuana laws alone…”
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) needs your help right now to respond to a renewed federal attack on medical cannabis patients and providers. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents raided twenty-six medical cannabis facilities in Montana and two in West Hollywood, CA, in the last forty-eight hours alone! We must tell the Obama Administration to stop the raids and create a federal policy that protects legal patients!
Call the White House at (202) 456-1414 between 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST and send an email right now:
I am outraged by the recent federal raids on medical marijuana patients and providers in Montana and California. Medical marijuana patients and providers should not be subject to harassment or arrest, especially when they are obeying state law. I demand the Administration stop the raids, allow states to regulate medical marijuana, and develop a federal policy that protects patients once and for all. Thank you.
3:45 PM – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is raiding two medical cannabis collectives in the City of West Hollywood right now. There is no word yet on arrests. Protesters and legal observers are needed at both locations:
AHHS (Alternative Herbal Health Services) 7828 Santa Monica (@ Fairfax)
Zen Healing Collective, 8464 Santa Monica Blvd (@ La Cienega Blvd.)
Americans For Safe Access strongly condemns the raids and calls on the Administration to live up to its promise of a more reasonable federal policy. ASA will publish more information about the federal raids and the grassroots response later today. Join the ASA mailing list at http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org or follow @ASAdonduncan on Twitter for information.
Narcotics Detectives Open and Operate Medical Marijuana Dispensary in San Diego
By: Eugene Davidovich, October 18, 2010
The undercover officers dubbed themselves as ‘New Management’ before detaining and interrogating unsuspecting patients walking into the dispensary that day.
SAN DIEGO –Thursday morning of last week, San Diego County Narcotics Task Force (NTF) detectives arrested James Harder a founding member of the Helping Hands Wellness Collective at his home in San Diego. The detectives also served search warrants at the dispensary located on 5th Avenue in Hillcrest. The arrest and search of the dispensary was the extent of what the search and arrest warrants authorized the NTF to do that that day.
After booking Harder into San Diego County Jail, NTF Detective Mark Andrew Carlson however was not finished. He ordered his team to dawn orange Helping Hands Wellness shirts and open the dispensary on time at 10am, taking San Diego District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis’ fierce fight against medical marijuana to a whole new level.
