Feds targeting mendo permit program?

[Fungus Gnat]

Mendocino County officials are under federal orders to surrender records from their now-suspended medical marijuana permitting program, raising questions about the fate of those named in the permits as well as more than $800,000 in fees collected from pot growers.

But Sheriff Tom Allman, whose department was tapped to run the program approved in March 2010, said the exercise may be worthwhile if it brings some clarity to a murky legal area in which state and federal law conflicts.
“The federal government surely isn’t going to tell me what their game plan is,” Allman said Tuesday. “I’m certainly willing to tell them everything about the program possible, with the hopes that we’re getting closer to getting an answer about the law.”
The subpoenas, issued quietly last month by a federal grand jury, mark the latest volley in a federal crackdown on California’s medical marijuana industry. Over the past two years, federal authorities have stepped up enforcement efforts against medical marijuana, raiding farms and shutting down dispensaries.
Critics say the U.S. Attorney’s Office is attempting to undermine California law authorizing medical marijuana use.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121127/ARTICLES/121129668/1350?Title=Feds-subpoena-Mendocino-County-pot-records

I guess the old adage of never volunteering for anything still rings true.

 

[angryblackman]

Very interesting! Anything going on with land development in that area? I wonder if this is the start of tobacco trying to get a foot in the "door" so to speak.

 

[PJ Diaz]

Very interesting! Anything going on with land development in that area? I wonder if this is the start of tobacco trying to get a foot in the "door" so to speak.

Start? Big tobacco already owns hundreds of prime acres in the emerald triangle. They're ready.

 

[angryblackman]

Start? Big tobacco already owns hundreds of prime acres in the emerald triangle. They're ready.

Well by start I mean the push to move in and start producing. I can easily see it happening in the next couple of years. With the legalization in a few states for recreational use there is now a domestic place to export to.

 

[biglungs]

fuck the MCSO lock them all up for taking payoffs cuz thats all it was. pay us and u allegedly wont go to jail....

 

[SenorBrownWater]

fuck the MCSO lock them all up for taking payoffs cuz thats all it was. pay us and u allegedly wont go to jail....

i don't think that's really fair...
ime MCSO is cool...one of the most forward thinking law enforcement agencies in America..

the feds are what we worry about...mcso has no control of what they do...

 

[Grandpapy]

It would be nice if they (the fed's) were thinking of adopting MCSO's permitting program. Unfortunately using force to obtain the records leads me to think it's not good.