California Dispensaries Fight Back

[Midnight]

Suits challenge crackdown by feds on pot shops
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By Cathy Locke
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Published: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 2B
Last Modified: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 - 4:40 pm

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/05/4032109/suits-challenge-crackdown-by-feds.html


Lawsuits were filed Friday in federal courts in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in a move to block efforts by U.S. attorneys to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries in California.

"A massive organized effort is now going to be launched to bring the issue to federal courts across the state to get some judges to look at this," said San Francisco lawyer Matt Kumin, one of the attorneys representing plaintiffs in the lawsuits.

The El Camino Wellness Center, a Sacramento dispensary, is one of the plaintiffs in the suit filed in Sacramento, said P.J. Johnston, a spokesman for the statewide legal effort.

California's four U.S. prosecutors, declaring that the state's medical marijuana law "has been hijacked by profiteers," last month announced investigations and prosecutions of dispensaries, growers and investors throughout the state's medical marijuana market.

 

[Midnight]

Link to an earlier lawsuit by Americans for Safe Access.

http://americansforsafeaccess.org/downloads/ASA_v_Holder.pdf

 

[Mrs.Babba]

GO ASA!

 

[supermanlives]

asa can kiss my ass. i know what you assholes are really all about

 

[rives]

The ASA is taking a very unusual approach to this. They aren't challenging the Federal authority to enact or enforce the laws, but rather the tactics of how they are going about it. Should be interesting.