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Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA]
    #7726418 - 12/06/07 09:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA
December 6, 2007 - cbs2.com

The Arts District Healing Center, a Los Angeles-based medical marijuana provider, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, claiming that the Drug Enforcement Administration extorted its landlord by sending a letter threatening imprisonment and property seizure.

James Shaw, a spokesman for the center, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles. Co-plaintiffs are the Healing Center and Union of Medical Marijuana Providers.

Shaw opened his shop in April 2006 and sold marijuana -- legalized in California for medicinal purposes under Proposition 215, passed by state voters in 1996. However, under federal law, Marijuana remains a prohibited drug.

Representatives from the DEA's Los Angeles office were not available for comment. However, DEA Special Agent Jose Martinez told the Los Angeles Daily Journal that the letters weren't meant as a threat but as "an education process" for the public.

The Los Angeles Field Division of the DEA sent such a letter to Shaw's landlord, L.A. Citiproperties, stating that a marijuana dispensary was operating on the property, located on the 600 block of East 1st Street in July, the lawsuit said. The dispensary is less than a half-mile from the DEA's Los Angeles office.

"Federal law takes precedence over state law. It is not a defense to this crime or to the seizure of the property that the facility operating on the property that the facility operating on the property is providing 'medical marijuana' under California law," a letter from Timothy Landrum, special agent in charge of the DEA's Los Angeles field office, said, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Landrum also threatened L.A. Citiproperties with a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

In September, L.A. Citiproperties gave the Arts District Healing Center an eviction notice, which Shaw is fighting, the lawsuit said.

DEA agents executed a search warrant at the center on October 11, four days before the scheduled eviction trial, the lawsuit states. Federal agents also froze several bank accounts and seized funds belonging to the center.

The lawsuit claims the search warrants were in retaliation for Shaw fighting the eviction notice.

The DEA, Landrum and Deanne Reuter, acting group supervisor of the DEA's Los Angeles Field Office, have been named as defendants in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, attorneys' fees and a permanent injunction against the DEA from sending similar letters to landlords in the future.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: veggie]
    #7726619 - 12/06/07 10:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

"DEA Special Agent Jose Martinez told the Los Angeles Daily Journal that the letters weren't meant as a threat but as "an education process" for the public."

Education process my ass.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: TheShroomJew23]
    #7727370 - 12/07/07 04:17 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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"DEA Special Agent Jose Martinez told the Los Angeles Daily Journal that the letters weren't meant as a threat but as "an education process" for the public."

Education process my ass.




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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: nk pakelika]
    #7727482 - 12/07/07 06:03 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Go ADHC! They were a very understanding and giving dispensary. Loved their little contests.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: guest]
    #7727498 - 12/07/07 06:19 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I wonder how long it takes a judge to dismiss this lawsuit?  :rolleyes:  (cynical for the impaired)


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Seuss]
    #7728078 - 12/07/07 10:12 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I think more of this needs to happen, flood the DEA with lawsuits and get Medical Marijuana on track as something the DEA cannot and should not stomp over, regardless of existing laws. The fact that the DEA spits in the face of law abiding citizens who are sick and possibly dying by citing a draconian federal statute, it makes anything at the state level pointless to the juggernaut of widespread federal laws. we need to show them we can beat them with the law.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Cannabischarlie]
    #7728271 - 12/07/07 11:01 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Why do you even post this shit anymore? It's extremely obvious that this isn't getting anywhere, and that the government will do whatever the fuck they please whenever they please it

AMERIKA'S FUKKED


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Hrethic]
    #7728535 - 12/07/07 12:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

"i wouldnt necessarily call it 'threat', more like a... a... education process, yeah thats it!"


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Hrethic]
    #7729173 - 12/07/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> Why do you even post this shit anymore?
> AMERIKA'S FUKKED

Quit trying to demoralize the troops. Just because you are too lazy to do something about it doesn't mean others are.

> It's extremely obvious that this isn't getting anywhere, and that the government will do whatever the fuck they please whenever they please it

Certainly they try.

They are scared as hell of lawsuits like this because they are very close to losing the right to control what plants people grow.

Their strategy is to demoralize people and make them think they can't win. If all pot smokers called their congresspeople once per day until pot was legal, prohibition would fade away like a bad dream.

10 years ago, it would have not been possible to get many pot smokers to do anything, but the internet changes everything. DEA is very worried, they show their mental instability by raiding sick people.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7729646 - 12/07/07 04:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Well put Rockefeller... Well put.  Its only a matter of time at this point before DEA cracks and is overthrown by their own Government and its citizens.  I just hope its tomorrow.

I wonder how many DEA agents have become sick themselves and are in the closet medicaters regretting all of their steps along their federal way. :rolleyes:


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: veggie]
    #7730482 - 12/07/07 08:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

this is a very good thing, the more lawsuits against the cock suckers known as the dea the better,


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Hrethic]
    #7730647 - 12/07/07 08:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

From a humane perspective the government looks like bigger dipshits with each mounting lawsuit.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: Cowgold]
    #9398548 - 12/09/08 10:45 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I bet the DEA complain that they are underfunded and under staffed, yet continue to harass people who are only trying to make life more bearable for those with serious health problems.  M' has far more beneficial properties, and far fewer negative ones than alcohol, cigarettes, and many high cost prescription drugs.  Besides, prohibition doesn't work .. it just holds the door open for criminals who will find ways, through bribery and violence, of delivering what people want.  M' is only associated with "hard drugs" BECAUSE it is illegal.  If it wasn't, it would be no more likely to lead people into hard drugs than cigarette smoking.


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Re: Marijuana Distributor Files Suit Against DEA [CA] [Re: sbkenn]
    #9398939 - 12/09/08 11:53 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

nice bump  :rolleyes:


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