DEA takes advantage of Hinchey-Rohrabacher defeat in SD

[Joanie Baloney]

Five arrested, marijuana dispensaries raided


By Angelica Martinez
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

4:01 p.m. July 6, 2006


SAN DIEGO – Five people were arrested and 13 marijuana dispensaries were raided Thursday in an investigation into what authorities say was the manufacture and distribution of the drug under the guise of medicinal purposes.
Federal officials unsealed two indictments Thursday morning after conducting undercover investigations at businesses suspected of illegally dispensing the drug, officials said.





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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060706-1601-bn06potbust.html

[TomInTib]

1. My favorite paragraph..

San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said officers received hundreds of complaints in the past 18 months about burglaries, assaults and armed robberies in areas near the dispensaries.

What total bs.

The implication being that the customers were buying product and going criminal as a result.

[Joanie Baloney]

2. Actually,

There have been a spate of burglaries, but it's people breaking in to the clinics. Hey...people know good stuff when they see it.

;)

[TomInTib]

3. We have had more than our share of this heavy-handedness

across the Bay in San Francisco (I am in Tiburon).

Why can't the gov just leave these people alone?

[K-W]

4. The reasonable implication is that people are stealing to purchase it.

There might even be some truth to it. If a dispensery attempts to sell at prices below street value it will attract people looking to deal perhaps including people looking to deal who also invade a home now and again for capital.

That said, correllation doesnt equal causation. Theres no reason to conclude from whats given that those complaints had anything to do with the dispensery.

Its also very easy to create complaints.