DEA raids WA marijuana dispensaries in cities that set marijuana as lowest enforcement priority

[marmar]

from NORML:



DEA raids Washington marijuana dispensaries in cities that set marijuana as lowest enforcement priority.

November 15th, 2011
By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator


Multiple news outlets are reporting DEA and local officials raiding over a dozen dispensaries in the Seattle-area counties of King, Thurston, and Pierce in Washington State.

The Olympian reports:

The Thurston County Narcotics Task Force served search warrants at five medicinal marijuana dispensaries Tuesday morning and shut them down, according to a police spokesman.

The News-Tribune reports:

Five dispensaries were targeted in Thurston County and five in Pierce County, law enforcement officials reported. So far, no arrests have been reported from the searches in Pierce and Thurston counties.

The warrants targeted locations that are suspected of not complying with state law on medical marijuana, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

“The places we hit are not compliant with state law so we initiated enforcement,” he said. “There are facilities and people that are in compliance with the law that we did not hit.”

KOMO reports:

Medical marijuana activist group ‘Sensible Washington’ tells KOMO News searches have been conducted so far at Seattle Cannabis Co-op, Game Collective, Tacoma Cross, Lacey Cross and Seattle Cross among others.

KOMO News asked DEA spokeswoman Jodie Underwood if agents were serving search warrants on dispensaries in other counties as well and she acknowledged agents were serving several search warrants locally.

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The complete piece is at: http://blog.norml.org/2011/11/15/dea-raids-washington-marijuana-dispensaries-in-cities-that-set-marijuana-as-lowest-enforcement-priority/

[stevedeshazer]

1. This is insane.

At a time when the economy of Washington is in the tank, the AG is pushing this?

There are homeless people with cardboard signs at most major intersections in Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia. I'm a truck driver, I see them all the time.

I live in Portland, it's the same here maybe even worse. And my route is primarily SW Washington State. Been to Centralia/Chehalis or Longview/Kelso lately? Those are working class towns that have been reduced to utter poverty. The folks there will do anything to make a buck.

And the Justice Department wants to go after medical marijuana dispensaries? These people (MM users) are sick, for christ's sake. I guess the Attorney-General is sick, too. In a different sense of the word.

[fredamae]

2. Too Bad They Don't Have These Sheriffs

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/14/u-s-sheriffs-rise-up-against-federal-government-sheriff-threatens-feds-with-swat-team/

http://thearizonasentinel.com/2011/11/10/another-sheriff-says-this-land-is-our-land-feds-have-no-jurisdiction-2/

http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2011/11/vatic-note-well-they-just-gutted-this.html

[Warren Stupidity]

3. the disgusting just keeps coming!

stupid base and corrupt