This is disgraceful. Three days before the California Attorney General issues "guidelines" on medical marijuana, including four pages of single-spaced legal analysis specifically on the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries, it conducts a raid on a Northridge dispensary that it contends is operating "illegally."
Here's a radical thought: perhaps it would have been easier for the dispensary in question to operate "legally" if the AG had given the guidelines to the dispensary at least somewhat before conducting the raid.
Is this any way for California law enforcement to be handling this issue?
Would they treat a supermarket or a liquor store this way? Arrest first and ask questions later?
This is the first raid in recent memory on a medical marijuana dispensary that has been carried out specifically by the California Attorney General rather than the DEA.
There is a reason for that.
California voters support medical marijuana. They support medical marijuana dispensaries. If a dispensary is not complying with what the Attorney General feels is the law, there are a whole host of responses that would help these business comply with the relevant guidelines.
Engaging in these federal-style "crackdowns" is obnoxious, counterproductive, and in bad faith. It will only drive operators underground, out of the reach of state regulators.
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