Judge clears U.S. crackdown on Oakland medical pot shop

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Judge clears U.S. crackdown on Oakland medical pot shop

SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:36pm EST

(Reuters) - A judge paved the way on Thursday for federal authorities to seek the closure of a medical marijuana dispensary in California, dismissing a challenge by the city of Oakland to a federal crackdown targeting the facility, court papers showed.

But the executive director of the Harborside Health Center pledged that he would not close the Oakland outfit that bills itself as the world's largest medical pot dispensary and was featured in the Discovery Channel television series "Weed Wars."

Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James wrote in a 10-page ruling that a local U.S. attorney had successfully argued the federal government was immune from Oakland's lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act, which sets out how U.S. agencies develop and issue regulations.

California is one of 18 states which, in addition to the District of Columbia, allow medical marijuana. But the federal government holds the drug is illegal and liable to be abused.

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[Politicalboi]

1. Unbelievable

But the federal government holds the drug is illegal and liable to be abused.

ABUSED????? How does one abuse pot? You can NEVER overdose on it. Being denied for a good job because you smoked a joint 2 weeks ago. That's abuse.