Thurs Nov 21, 2002
Reacting to raids of California medical marijuana cooperatives by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, several California cities are asking local police to stop cooperating with federal agents. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the City Council of Sebastopol became the latest to approve a resolution supporting California's medical marijuana law and asking that the municipal police force avoid working with the DEA. Sebastopol's vote Tuesday night is expected to be followed in a few weeks by similar action in neighboring Santa Rosa. Earlier this year, city leaders in Berkeley and San Francisco approved anti-DEA resolutions. In San Jose, Police Chief William Lansdowne in October pulled his officers from a DEA task force, citing a "clear conflict between federal and state law" and saying methamphetamine was a far greater problem than marijuana. California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer has called the recent raids "punitive expeditions" that are an affront to the will of California's electorate.
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