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The Sacramento Bee has a strong piece this morning by Peter Hecht outlining the very real effects of the latest federal crackdown on medical marijuana in California. There is an excellent description of the raid on Matt Cohen of Northstone Organics in particular and the resulting chill that spread across those growers who are attempting to work with law enforcement.
Read more[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OiUEq-1BYs&feature=player_embedded] In what can only be described as a frontal assault on medical marijuana, federal agents are currently raiding Northstone Organics. The Mendocino collective is a well known provider of medical marijuana. The Executive Director, Matt Cohen, has recently been featured on Frontline’s epsisode, The Pot Republic. This not-for-profit co-op offers home delivery of cannabis grown organically in Mendocino county
Read moreOnce again, the analysis at One Good Year, a local blog, grabs the facts around marijuana, organizes them, and explains their implications clearly. Michael Jakubal, One Good Year’s writer, discusses the case of a Mendocino Medical Cooperative, Northstone Organics, which attempted to transport its legal (under Mendo’s ziptie rule) marijuana to the Bay Area only to be targeted by Sonoma
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