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Law enforcement officials, including Palm Springs Police and agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are searching the Palm Canyon Palm Springs Caregiver's medical marijuana dispensary at 333 N. Palm Canyon Drive this afternoon.
Why federal and local police are searching the dispensary was not immediately available as officials with Palm Springs police and the DEA could not be reached immediately for comment.
Eyewitnesses report police vehicles and people in DEA gear milling around the area. A search warrant was reportedly served on the facility while two people were inside. It is unknown whether those two
people were patients or dispensary workers or where they were taken.
The North Palm Springs location is one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in the Coachella Valley. Proposition 215, passed by California voters in the late 1990s, legalized compassionate care use
of the drug.
Recently Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask issued a white paper opinion saying that his office deems federal law banning marijuana to override California law permitting its sale for
compassionate care. Riverside County, Trask has announced, will join the counties of San Diego and San Bernardino in a lawsuit seeking a ruling on what the counties see as conflicting laws. That suit is
scheduled to be heard in mid-November.
Newshawk: Spliff Twister - 420 Magazine
Source: The Desert Sun
Pubdate: October 4, 2006
Author: K Kaufmann and Marie McCain
Copyright: 2006 The Desert Sun
Contact: contact
Website: thedesertsun.com | Palm Springs hometown newspaper, covering Coachella Valley, California
Why federal and local police are searching the dispensary was not immediately available as officials with Palm Springs police and the DEA could not be reached immediately for comment.
Eyewitnesses report police vehicles and people in DEA gear milling around the area. A search warrant was reportedly served on the facility while two people were inside. It is unknown whether those two
people were patients or dispensary workers or where they were taken.
The North Palm Springs location is one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in the Coachella Valley. Proposition 215, passed by California voters in the late 1990s, legalized compassionate care use
of the drug.
Recently Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask issued a white paper opinion saying that his office deems federal law banning marijuana to override California law permitting its sale for
compassionate care. Riverside County, Trask has announced, will join the counties of San Diego and San Bernardino in a lawsuit seeking a ruling on what the counties see as conflicting laws. That suit is
scheduled to be heard in mid-November.
Newshawk: Spliff Twister - 420 Magazine
Source: The Desert Sun
Pubdate: October 4, 2006
Author: K Kaufmann and Marie McCain
Copyright: 2006 The Desert Sun
Contact: contact
Website: thedesertsun.com | Palm Springs hometown newspaper, covering Coachella Valley, California
