Pubdate: Wed, 07 Nov 2001
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Section: National Briefing
Author: Evelyn Nieves

CALIFORNIA: A MEDICAL MARIJUANA DEFENDER

The San Francisco district attorney, Terence Hallinan, asked the federal 
Drug Enforcement Administration to stop cracking down on dispensers of 
marijuana for medical use. Mr. Hallinan, the only district attorney in 
California who actively campaigned for the voter initiative that legalized 
such marijuana, said that in recent weeks, two San Francisco dispensaries 
had been under surveillance by unidentified agents and patients' records 
had been seized from a doctor's office in El Dorado County and from the 
largest cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles, which was forced to close. 
Evelyn Nieves (NYT)
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