cannabisnews.com: Pot Raids Spur Calls To Quit Working With DEA Pot Raids Spur Calls To Quit Working With DEA Posted by CN Staff on November 22, 2002 at 14:56:55 PT By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer Source: Los Angeles Times Reacting to raids of California medical marijuana cooperatives by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, several cities around the state are pushing local police to stop cooperating with federal agents.The City Council of Sebastopol became the latest to approve a resolution supporting California's medical marijuana law and asking that the municipal police force avoid working with the DEA. Sebastopol's vote Tuesday night is expected to be followed in a few weeks by similar action in neighboring Santa Rosa.Earlier this year, city leaders in Berkeley and San Francisco approved anti-DEA resolutions.In San Jose, Police Chief William Lansdowne in October pulled his officers from a DEA task force, citing a "clear conflict between federal and state law" and saying methamphetamine was a far greater problem than marijuana.Santa Cruz council members, meanwhile, in September invited leaders of a busted medical pot cooperative to distribute marijuana as medicine from the front steps of City Hall.Such efforts have been almost entirely symbolic, and each of those cities was among the most proactive in the state to enact Proposition 215, California's landmark 1996 medical marijuana measure.Though it won voter approval, Proposition 215 created a legal quandary for police and the courts because the medical pot measure conflicts with federal law declaring marijuana illegal for any purpose.In addition, the Legislature and Gov. Gray Davis have for several years balked at attempts by medical marijuana activists to push through bills to create statewide standards for cannabis patients.Backed by a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, federal drug agents have stepped in during the past year to raid several medical marijuana dispensaries that enjoyed good working relationships with local political leaders and police.Snipped:Complete Article: http://freedomtoexhale.com/pr.htm Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)Author: Eric Bailey, Times Staff WriterPublished: November 21, 2002 Copyright: 2002 Los Angeles TimesContact: letters latimes.comWebsite: http://www.latimes.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:California NORMLhttp://www.canorml.org/Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmSebastopol OKs Pot Resolution http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14793.shtmlCouncil Passes Proposal Supporting Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14792.shtmlCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #4 posted by afterburner on November 22, 2002 at 19:46:06 PT: Mordida. In answer to the question of why the police continue to bust compassion clubs, one word comes to mind: mordida. THE MORDIDA: MEXICO AND CORRUPTION [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by afterburner on November 22, 2002 at 16:30:10 PT: Reasserting States Medical Rights. Harry Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, AKA the first "drug czar," bamboozled the states to give up their states rights by endorsing his uniform state narcotic law, by propagandizing with Marihuana: Assassin of Youth and Reefer Madness. Now that this crazy quilt is starting to unravel with states opting out of federal control and reasserting their states rights by ratifying medical marijuana laws, the federal government cries "Foul," and sends their DEA goon squads to harass, intimidate, and confiscate. ego destruction or ego transcendence, that is the question. States medical rights or stolen federal powers enhanced by bullied international treaties (based on no medical or scientific data). [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by The GCW on November 22, 2002 at 16:28:13 PT From Cannabis Culture Canadian med-pot clubs under attack http://www.hempbc.com/articles/2651.html Thousands without medicine after police raids in Toronto and BC. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by The GCW on November 22, 2002 at 16:01:24 PT As a flash point for argument, pot's hot. Quoted from: MARIJUANA MAYHEM http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n2134/a12.html?397 [ Post Comment ] Post Comment