Pubdate: Fri, 27 Sep 2002
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
Copyright: 2002 The Media News Group
Contact:  http://www.chicoer.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/861
Author: Irish McNeil
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1788/a11.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

CHICO POT RAID INHUMAN

When I read the Sept. 19 medical marijuana story, I got the same sickening 
feeling one gets when they are a witness to man's inhumanity to man.

This man, Michael Farrell, is obviously someone that has a number of 
problems and is clearly in need of some help. The article reads as though 
the nine agents and deputies were suffering a great hardship by having to 
tolerate a yard with dog feces.

What was the purpose of this article? Was it because 30 pounds of marijuana 
and 18 plants are such a huge "drug bust"? Or was it to publicly humiliate 
someone by exploiting their living conditions?

I certainly do not feel that this world is a safer place as a result of 
these heroics.

Irish McNeil, Chico
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