DEA uproots 273 medical marijuana plants at Lockwood Valley ranch
About two dozen DEA investigators with Ventura County deputies raided growers Lynn and Judy Osburn's Lockwood Valley ranch on 28 September 2001, pulling up 273 marijuana plants bound for a Los Angeles buyers' club. No one was arrested.
🇺🇸 Osburn ranch, Lockwood Valley, Ventura County · California, United States
About two dozen federal Drug Enforcement Administration investigators, assisted by Ventura
County sheriff’s deputies, raided the Lockwood Valley ranch of medical marijuana growers
Lynn and Judy Osburn in late September 2001 and pulled up the crop they grew for the Los
Angeles Cannabis Resource Center.[1][2]Agents arrived by helicopter on the morning of
28 September, uprooted every plant in a field of about 270 ready-to-harvest plants,
loaded them onto trucks and left without arresting or handcuffing anyone.[2]The Times
put the count at more than 200 plants; a later federal account gave 273.[1][3]
The Osburns, who held doctors’ recommendations and supplied the cooperative’s 900 members
under Proposition 215, watched as the crop was destroyed.[1][3][2]No charges were filed,
though deputies said the case would be forwarded to federal officials for review; three
weeks later DEA agents raided the buyers’ club itself in West Hollywood.[3][2]
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