Feds raid medicinal pot grower

[mitchtv]

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060315/NEWS0801/603150327/1006/news01


K Kaufmann and Marie McCain
The Desert Sun
March 15, 2006

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Federal agents raided a Sky Valley house Tuesday owned by a man who says he grows marijuana for patients of a Palm Desert medical marijuana dispensary.
No arrests were made in the morning sweep of Garry Silva's Dowell Lane residence. However, agents armed with a federal search warrant did confiscate "guns and a quantity of marijuana," said Sarah Fenno Beers, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Though not the first raid of its kind in California, the incident is significant. Experts say it brings an ongoing national debate over the legitimacy of medical marijuana - and the contradictions in federal and state law about this issue - into sharp relief for Coachella Valley residents.

The house was the site of a "collective," where patients approved for the medical use of marijuana could grow what they needed, said Kris Hermes, legal campaign director for Americans for Safe Access, a national patients' rights advocacy group, based in Oakland

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. damned rag-head-lovin' terrists, growing treason pot for libruls.

The feds have to go in because no state police want to touch it. With a federal crime, guess what, felony possession, federal rules, federal prison and a smaller jury, less likely that the jurors can say no.

This just sucks.

Abortion. Pot raids. Alaskan oil digging. Diabold.
Is it me, or does it seem as though everything is coming to a head?

[Dr. Jones]

3. Nope. Not just you.

Lots of people, like myself, agree.

I think this is ridiculous. While Bush is turning our country into a fascist state, they're worried about this. Furthermore, I don't think ANYBODY that is against the use of medical marijuana has ANY IDEA what it's like to endure severe pain for an extended (like - as in - YEARS) period of time. They are so hypocritical, if they DID feel that kind of pain, they'd be the first to cry out for the stuff.

[EST]

2. Jeebus H Gawd! Not again?

I have never been a hater. Weakening.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Great. Our tax dollars, hard at work.

:patriot: YAY! :patriot:

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