Ventura County sheriff’s deputies raided a ranch in Lockwood Valley on 4 August 2000, seizing 342 marijuana plants grown by four members of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Cooperative.[1][2] Those arrested were activists Lynn and Judy Osburn with Mark Davison and Carol Jo Papac, all of whom said they were medical marijuana users growing for the cooperative’s more than 800 patients; all four were released on bail on Friday night.[1][3][2] The cooperative’s president said the marked garden held a significant share of its annual supply and that patients were already suffering from the loss.[1][2]

When the four came for arraignment in September, prosecutors had not decided whether to charge them, and a deputy district attorney said further investigation was needed before setting a new date of 25 October.[3] The couples also lost computers and storage disks holding a legal-defense manuscript kept at the ranch home.[3] Deputies additionally seized two pistols, two revolvers, a shotgun and a rifle belonging to Lynn Osburn.[4] Charges were never filed over the seizure, though federal prosecutors later built a case on evidence gathered in this and two later raids at the farm.[4]