E-Mail Alert from the Cannabis Action Network

posted at DrugWar.com Sept. 13, 2002

DEA RAID IN PETALUMA...
PROTEST ON MONDAY, SEPT. 16

Please forward this message to your friends.

For the second time in one week the DEA has raided a medical cannabis
(marijuana) dispensary in California. This morning, DEA agents raided the
Genesis 1:29 dispensary in Petaluma, CA. Agents also raided a medical garden
associated with the dispensary.

Patients and loved ones are outraged by this escalation in the federal
anti-medical cannabis campaign. Just last week, the DEA raided a similar
dispensary in Santa Cruz. The DEA has targeted 6 medical dispensaries in the
last year.

We are calling on all medical cannabis supporters to join Americans for Safe
Access (www.SafeAccessNow.org) and its national coalition in protesting the
latest raid. There will be demonstrations at federal buildings in cities all
over the country at 12:00 PM on Monday, September 16.

Your participation is crucial. We must keep the pressure on the federal
government in this time of crisis. I know many of you demonstrated last week
for this same issue. We need you -- plus many others --again. I urge you to
take sick days or vacation time if possible.

In Oakland, the demonstration will be at the downtown federal building at
1301 Clay St. at 14th. Use the 12th St./City Center BART. Arrive by 12:00 PM
with signs, banners, pictures of patients, etc.

In San Francisco, the demonstration will be at the downtown federal building
at 450 Golden Gate. Use the Civic Center BART. Arrive by 12:00 PM with
signs, banners, pictures of patients, etc.

For locations in other cities, please contact our office (below).

Thank you for your continued support and vigilance. Let's keep up the
pressure and force them to stop this outrageous behavior. See you Monday!

-- Don Duncan
Americans for Safe Access
www.SafeAccessNow.org
Toll Free Hotline (888) 929-4367
Tel. (510) 486-8083
Fax (510) 486-8090

Steph Sherer
Executive Director
Cannabis Action Network -- http://www.cannabisaction.net
and Americans for Safe Access -- http://www.safeaccessnow.org
1678 Shattuck Ave. #317
Berkeley, CA 94709
phone: 510-486-8083
fax: 510-486-8090

Press Democrat: September 13, 2002

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/13pot_a1.html
DEA raids Sebastopol pot farm, 6 detained-

Federal agents descended on a ranch on the outskirts of Sebastopol this
morning in a raid that netted thousands of mature marijuana plants.

Through the morning and into the afternoon, more than a dozen armed men
worked their way through a gently sloping hillside taking chainsaws to a
marijuana crop estimated at between 3,000 and 5,400 plants.

Robert Schmidt, operator of a medical marijuana club in Petaluma, was
arrested for allegedly assaulting a federal Drug Enforcement Administration
agent during the 6:20 a.m. raid and trying to take the agent's firearm, said
an official.

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Read Complete Article at the Press Democrat link above