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In reply to the discussion: Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history [View all]Webster Green
(13,905 posts)Sometimes the federal attorneys go to the landlord of the dispensary, and threaten to take his building away.
My good friend, until very recently, ran the oldest dispensary in the state, in Marin County. She decided to pack it in, after constant harassment from the feds, including the IRS, and because of the threat to her landlord, who she had a good business relationship with. She also had the full support of the town of Fairfax, and the Fairfax Police. She was not arrested (yet), but the business was still destroyed, and her patients are denied their meds.
Drug arrest statistics are interesting, but pretty much irrelevant to this discussion.
Some of the owners of raided dispensaries could still be charged, even if they were not arrested and charged at the time of the raid.
Obama has ramped it up. It's real simple and obvious. I know you will never believe it though.