Pubdate: Fri, 19 Jan 2007
Source: Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA)
Copyright: 2007 The Copley Press Inc.
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Cited: Americans for Safe Access http://www.safeaccessnow.org
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100 PROTEST RAIDS BY FEDS ON MEDICAL POT FACILITIES

About 100 people demonstrated outside West Hollywood City Hall on 
Thursday to protest Wednesday's federal raids on 11 medical marijuana 
dispensaries in Los Angeles County, in which some 5,000 pounds of 
high-grade pot was seized and 27 people were detained. Five of the 
locations were in West Hollywood.

Federal authorities do not recognize the California law -- approved 
by voters in 1996 as Proposition 215 -- that allows patients with a 
doctor's prescription to have marijuana.

William Dolphin, a spokesman for the Oakland-based pro-medical 
marijuana group Americans for Safe Access, said the gathering was an 
"angry and concerned protest."

Los Angeles County has an estimated 200 marijuana outlets. 
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