DEA raids Los Angeles cannabis cooperative serving 960 patients
DEA agents raided the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center in West Hollywood on 25 October 2001, seizing 400 plants and the medical records of some 3,000 patients; no one was arrested as a federal offensive against California's buyers' clubs began.
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Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center in West
Hollywood on 25 October 2001, destroying its garden and seizing 400 marijuana plants along with
computers, financial documents and the medical records of some 3,000 current and former
patients.[1][2]The center, open since 1996, supplied marijuana to 960 patients with AIDS,
epilepsy, glaucoma, cancer and other serious illnesses, who needed a physician’s referral and a
screening process to join.[1]
The raid opened an admitted federal offensive against California’s medical marijuana buyers’
clubs, months after a Supreme Court ruling against distribution through cooperatives; a Justice
Department spokeswoman said the administration would be aggressive and made no distinction
between medical marijuana and other illegal drugs.[2]Three weeks earlier, more than two
dozen DEA investigators with Ventura County sheriff’s deputies had uprooted over 200 plants
bound for the center from growers Lynn and Judy Osburn.[2]Agents made no arrests in either
raid, while West Hollywood city officials protested and the local sheriff’s commander refused
to let deputies take part.[2]
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The opened reports say no charges had been filed after the raid; any later prosecution of Scott Imler and his colleagues is not in the opened sources.
The Associated Press count of 400 plants and 3,000 patient records has no separate breakdown in the Drug War Chronicle account, which gives no plant figure.
No photograph of the raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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