Leaked CA. Attns. General Memo for Prosecution Targets

[RainDog]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/73151660/DOJMarijuanaProsecutionGuidelines

guidelines point toward targeting those with a criminal past, links to criminal groups, assumed money-laundering for large-profit groups, cultivation for destinations outside of CA and more.

don't know if the actual raids conformed to these guidelines.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/11/marijuana_doj_policy_prosecution_guidelines.php

"Pot supporters aren't sure exactly when the memo was issued but they indicate it was probably within the last year and well before a recent crackdown on medical marijuana by U.S. Attorneys in California.

The document doesn't dispute the attorney's rationale or foreshadow it, but it does provide some guidelines for those in the business who want to avoid the long arm of the Obama administration.

"The memo looks like what I would have suspected federal guidelines were all along before the crackdown," Dale Gieringer, state coordinator of California NORML, told the Weekly today. "It's a useful indicator."

But Gieringer warned medical growers that having 199 kilos or 999 plants won't necessarily protect them from prosecution. He said the DEA marches to its own drummer on that stuff: "DEA raids don't necessarily conform with this," he said."