Pubdate: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 Source: Summit Daily News (CO) Copyright: 2010 Summit Daily News Contact: http://apps.summitdaily.com/forms/letter/index.php Website: http://www.summitdaily.com/home.php Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/587 Note: from the Associated Press DENVER DEA: DRUG RINGS, NOT MEDICAL POT DENVER - Denver's top Drug Enforcement Administration agent says he'd rather his agents focus on international drug rings than medical marijuana growers. Denver DEA Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Sweetin in an interview with The Denver Post editorial board Monday says that aggravating factors must be involved before his agents raid a medical marijuana grow. Those factors include links to criminal organizations, feeding the marijuana black market or operating "far over the line" of state law. Sweetin's comments come less than a week before sentencing for Christopher Bartkowicz, who was arrested Feb. 12 in a high profile raid. DEA agents raided Bartkowicz's home after he told a television station about his marijuana growing operation in his basement. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D