Feds Crack Down On Southern California Medical Marijuana

[+EdwardGlen]

Feds Crack Down on Southern California Medical Marijuana\

 

Associated Press - Tuesday, August 21 2012

 

http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2012/08/21/Feds-Crack-Down-Southern-California-Medical-Marijuana

 

 

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday expanded their crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries, filing three lawsuits and sending warning letters to more than 60 clinics in two Orange County cities.

 

The asset-forfeiture lawsuits filed against landlords who own buildings that house six marijuana shops in Anaheim and the letters order the closure of the clinics or possible criminal charges will be filed.

 

More than 300 pot stores and grows have been targeted in the Central District of California, which stretches from Santa Barbara to San Bernardino counties, since October when the state's four U.S. attorneys announced an effort to curb dispensaries.

 

Prosecutors argue dealers and suppliers are using the state's medical pot law, approved in 1996, as legal cover for running sophisticated drug-trafficking ventures in plain sight. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

 

Medical marijuana advocates argue the collectives are protected by California law, which allows the drug to be cultivated and supplied to ill people on a nonprofit basis.

[Celliach]

Can you please edit the title to say "Feds crack Down on Southern Cali MMJ Dispensaries?"

 

See the total difference between the two statements?