Pubdate: Thu, 24 Apr 2003
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2003 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: The Associated Press
Cited: Drug Enforcement Administration ( www.dea.gov )

CALIFORNIA: GOVERNMENTS SPAR ON MARIJUANA

Santa Cruz officials filed a lawsuit demanding that federal agents stay 
away from a farm growing marijuana for sick and dying people. The suit, 
against Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, follows a D.E.A. raid in September on the small pot farm 
about 15 miles north of Santa Cruz. Agents uprooted about 165 plants and 
arrested the owners, Valerie and Michael Corral. Marijuana is illegal under 
federal law but a California law allows it to be grown and distributed to 
people with a doctor's prescription. YY (AP)
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