DEA and Sacramento police raid Capitol Alternatives dispensary
DEA agents with Sacramento police raided the Capitol Alternatives medical marijuana dispensary at 2020 16th Street on 19 April 2006, after officers searched an operator's home the same morning. No one was arrested or charged, and the club reopened the next day at another location.
🇺🇸 2020 16th Street, Sacramento, California · California, United States
DEA agents with the active participation of the Sacramento Police Department raided the Capitol Alternatives dispensary at 2020 16th Street in Sacramento on the morning of 19 April 2006.[1]Earlier the same morning, the DEA, FBI and Sacramento Sheriff had raided the home of one of the dispensary’s operators, seizing paperwork and medicine without making an arrest.[1]Officers held everyone inside the dispensary while supporters gathered to protest outside.[1]
No charges, club reopened
No charges were made over the raid, and the club reopened the next day at another location.[2]Like other California pot shops of the time, the dispensary had to operate as a collective or cooperative of medicinal cannabis patients under state law even though federal law treated possessing or selling marijuana as a crime.[2]Advocates called the enforcement action a direct attack on patients and providers of medical marijuana.[1]
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