Feds cracking down on California medical marijuana dispensaries
October 6, 2011 | 6:28 pm
Translation by Autumnson Blog
加州的聯邦檢察官威脅要關閉整個州的醫用大麻藥房，發信警告業主在45天之內停止銷售藥物，否則面對可能性他們的財產將被扣押，及他們將被送進監獄。
The stepped-up enforcement appears to be a major escalation in the Obama administration’s bid to rein in the explosive spread of medical marijuana outlets that was accelerated by the announcement that federal prosecutors would not target people using medical marijuana in states that allow it.
加強執法似乎是一項奧巴馬政府企圖的重大升級，為了勒住爆炸性的醫用大麻商店的擴散，那更一發不可收拾隨著宣佈，聯邦檢察官不會針對它允許的州內使用醫用大麻的人。
“It’s basically the federal bureaucracy doing what it has done for the last 15 years and just continuing to put its head in the sand and saying no on this,” said Dale Gieringer, the director of California NORML.
“它基本上是聯邦政府官僚在過去 15年已做了它所做的，及衹是繼續把它的頭埋在沙中，並就此說沒有，”加州的NORML主任戴爾 Gieringer說。
The four U.S. attorneys have scheduled a news conference for Friday morning in Sacramento to outline their plans to target marijuana cultivation and sales in California. Earlier this year, the prosecutors circulated an internal memo that indicated they would focus enforcement efforts on dispensaries and growers that dealt with more than 200 kilograms or a 1,000 plants a year.
四名美國律師已計劃在週五上午在Sacramento舉行新聞發布會，闡述他們的計劃針對加州的大麻種植和銷售。今年早些時候，檢察官傳閱一份內部備忘錄，那指出他們將聚焦在執法力度，對一年處理超過 200公斤或1,000棵植物的藥房和種植者。
Landlords for some dispensaries have already received letters, including the owner of the building that houses the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax, Calif., the oldest dispensary in the state. That letter notes that the dispensary is within a prohibited distance of a park, raising the possibility that prosecutors are taking aim at stores that fall within 1,000 feet of schools and parks. But letters received by dispensaries in San Diego make no mention of such distance prohibitions.
“There’s always been a different policy depending on where you are,” said Gieringer. “They’re going to try to clean up San Diego and just cause some random damage up here.”
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama said the federal government should not raid medical marijuana users and caregivers. Three months after Obama was inaugurated, his attorney general announced that it would be the administration's official policy. Although California was the first state to decriminalize marijuana for medical use in 1996, it remains a federal crime to possess or sell it.
Recently, the administration and some of its federal prosecutors have drawn strict limits on what they would tolerate. When Oakland and Berkeley began to make plans to allow industrial-scale cultivation, the U.S. attorney for the Bay Area made it that clear she would not allow it, leading those cities to shelve ambitious plans motivated by the desire for tighter regulatory control and increased tax revenues.
The latest letters have baffled the state’s medical marijuana activists, who believe the president has broken his word. “Obama says, ‘Yes.’ The conservatives say, ‘No.’ So they get together and huddle and they settle on no,” said William G. Panzer, an Oakland lawyer who helped draft the state’s medical marijuana initiative. “The Obama administration has been incredibly disappointing on this issue.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/feds-cracking-down-on-california-medical-marijuana-dispensaries.html
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