Thu 26 Jul 2007
*sigh*…Just another day in the New America:
LOS ANGELES - Federal agents raided 10 marijuana clinics Wednesday, the same day city leaders introduced a measure calling for an end to the crackdown on the dispensaries allowed under state law.
The bust netted five arrests, large quantities of marijuana and cash, and was the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-largest since California voters approved medical marijuana sales in 1996. The drug remains illegal under federal law.
DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen said the timing of the bust and the city’s action was “purely coincidental.” (emphasis mine)
No. If they’d initiated the raid at 4:20 P.M., that would be a coincidence. This is a deliberate, craven act of intimidation, a show of force against people for distributing a drug that, for all the bluster over the years against it, is statistically safer than Aspirin.