OAKLAND, Calif. -- According to marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a medical marijuana dispensary Thursday in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. It was only the second full day of Barack Obama's term in office.

"Even though President Barack Obama had made repeated promises during his election campaign to end federal raids in medical marijuana states, many high-ranking Bush Administration officials have yet to leave office," ASA said in a statement.

For example, still at the helm of the DEA is acting Administrator Michele Leonhart. Neither Eric Holder, President Obama's pick for U.S. Attorney General, nor a new DEA Administrator, have taken office yet.

"Whether or not this unconscionable raid on a medical marijuana provider is the fault of federal officials from the previous administration, President Obama has an opportunity to change this harmful and outdated policy," said Caren Woodson, Director of Government Affairs for ASA. "We are hopeful that these are the last remnants of the Bush regime and that President Obama will quickly develop a more compassionate policy toward our most vulnerable citizens."

ASA says medical marijuana and an unknown amount of cash was seized during the raid from Holistic Solutions, but no arrests were made. According to ASA, this first DEA raid under the new Obama Administration is another example of more than 100 raids on medical marijuana providers that have occurred in California over the past two years.

"I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users," Senator Obama said in an August 2007 statement. "It's not a good use of our resources," he continued. This statement was followed up by Obama in other public events in the run up to the election.

ASA has been working with the new Administration on changing federal law around medical marijuana, which has included providing a comprehensive set of policy recommendations.


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I still believe that people needing MJ for medical reasons should just grow their own and not rely on Co-Ops for the weed.....be self suppling ...I havent bought weed for years

Weed should be legal on all levels...its a weed.....Damn Nixon

The DEA might as well go after the state too since they took and deposited monies from MMj patients to be legal.

fuck the DEA.
a huge waste of our tax dollars.

To me that is just stealing. If you go and confiscate peoples stuff claiming it's illegal but you don't arrest them, that is just plain robbery.

California is broke, they probably needed the cash to pay the cops salaries

Obama needs to get off his ass, get out his pen and stop this crap once and for all.

Yeah, it is! Just like the Liberty Dollar. Makes me fume

I agree but i think the problem is buying the equitment can be so costly that its easyer for most to just find a sourse.

Im a legal grower and my patient can't physically do it for himself as well as he is on SSI and is bairly making the rent.

I'm on my second harvest and I'm still fine tuning my system. It has taken a lot of time and money to start this up. I can definately see where growing isn't an option for some people because of the work that goes into it. The daily up-keep is easily 30 minutes, but if stuff starts clogging then I have to get in there, move my plants, get to my lines, take everything apart, etc...and two hours later it's back up and running. I really couldn't see anyone with serious illnesses being able to do this.

Picking up a couple patients myself in the near future. Should be pretty gratifying to play psuedo-pharmacist

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Did anyone really believe that Obama was going to be better on this issue than previous administrations? I see the photoshopped pics with Obama and a bong that some use for avatars, and I have to wonder how naive people really are.


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