Pubdate: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA) Copyright: 2011 Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559 Author: Rigzin Vassallo Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n624/a08.html POLICE PROFITEERING? Re "A letter to the president" (From This Corner, by Jeff vonKaenel, Oct. 13): Law enforcement has a massive lobby and currently receives massive federal funding to eradicate marijuana due to older policies that are still in place. Getting the go-ahead to raid legal dispensaries and gardens lets them add thousands to their annual budgets, and if property and cash are seized the agency doing the raid gets to keep it for their department. I would dare to say that the recent turn of events would be a way for Obama to gain support from this uber-strong law-enforcement lobby. Is there a correlation between this law enforcement profiteering and the raiding of legal, safe cannabis operations? It seems so to me. Rigzin Vassallo Sebastopol - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom