LAPD Ignoring Medical Marijuana Law
June 1st, 2009 by Rick
Apparently the LAPD is the new DEA. According to Americans for Safe Access, via Opposing Views, Detective Supervisor Holcomb from the LAPD has been shutting down Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries — some as recent as the past few days.
Holcomb told one of the clinic’s lawyers:
The City Council’s ongoing effort to regulate these facilities is irrelevant because the associations violate state law.
Sounding more like a DA rather than a cop, Holcomb cited a few flawed examples that he felt covered his ass when it came to raiding state sanctioned cannabis clubs. Outgoing Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, had the same philosophy when he wrote a draft ordinance designed to close all storefront patients’ associations in Los Angeles.
That was last year, the same year that California Attorney General Jerry Brown published guidelines stating:
A properly organized and operated collective or cooperative that dispenses medical marijuana through a storefront may be lawful under California law.
The Obama Administration and U.S. Attorney Eric Holder even said that the federal government would stop the raiding of medical marijuana dispensaries. The only time they said that they would raid these collectives was when they were violating state law as well. If these co-ops raided by Holcomb and his henchmen in blue, are indeed running a state sanctioned dispansary without criminal element, then the LAPD has a lot of explaining to do, considering this is in direct contradiction of the statements from the White House.
