The Drug Enforcement Administration raided the Holistic Solutions medical cannabis dispensary in South Lake Tahoe on Thursday 22 January 2009, in the first days of the Obama administration.[1][2] Agents seized medical cannabis and an unknown amount of cash, and made no arrests.[1][2][3] It was the first dispensary raid of the new administration, carried out while Bush-era officials including acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart were still in charge.[1][2] Obama had said repeatedly as a candidate that he would end such raids.[2]
DEA raids South Lake Tahoe dispensary in first Obama-era raid
DEA agents raided the Holistic Solutions medical cannabis dispensary in South Lake Tahoe on 22 January 2009, days into the Obama administration, seizing medical cannabis and cash. No one was arrested in the raid, the first dispensary raid of the new administration.
🇺🇸 South Lake Tahoe, California · California, United States
- Agency
- DEA
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Agency type
- Anti-narcotics agency
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Activity
- Sale
- Setting
- Shop
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- Americans for Safe Accesssafeaccessnow.orgASA Weekly Alert 1/23/2009
- Stop the Drug Warstopthedrugwar.orgMedical Marijuana: DEA Hits California Dispensary in First Raid of Obama Administration
- California NORMLcanorml.orgCall on Obama to End DEA Raids!
Open questions the AI reported
- The opened sources state no amount for the cannabis or cash seized.
- No photograph of this raid with a recoverable direct image address was found; the one raid photo on a source page shows a different May 2008 raid.



