As we’ve mentioned before–here and here–conflicting medical marijuana laws and ambivalent local officials have made things complicated for related businesses and law enforcement. But no one is in a bigger pickle than the patient.
I recently spoke with a Long Beach resident who regularly uses medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. [...]

So much for the City Attorney and local business. How do the police uphold state law when the Feds drop in?
I recently spoke with a LBPD undercover narcotics investigator–who works closely with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency–about the November 20th federal raid (and subsequent closure) of Long Beach Compassionate Caregivers, a local medical marijuana [...]

When state and federal laws conflict the City Attorney is put in a very awkward position. Local businesses, too.
On October 2nd of last year federal DEA agents raided Long Beach Compassionate Caregivers (aka LBCC–no jokes, people), one of 11 medical marijuana dispensaries then operating in Long Beach. Despite the 1996 passage of Prop. [...]

THURS. NOV. 22: MMM, JUDI DENCH
Tues | Nov 20 Federal agents raid a medicinal marijuana facility on Fourth Street and get a bunch of cannabis and the comforting feeling that they are torturing the sick and dying—E Pluribus Unum, boys! The facility, which had the head shop-sounding name “Compassionate Caregivers,” is one of the facilities [...]