Pot and meth are on the minds of the law enforcement agencies tasked with fighting illegal drugs.

Chris Endress, director of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Enforcement Group, returned Friday from a week-long conference in Washington, D.C., where various agencies discussed drug-related issues facing law enforcement.

Top on the list was medical marijuana, Mr. Endress said. High-quality cannabis now legal in some states is making its way into states where it is illegal, including Illinois.

"We've seized hundreds of pounds of medical marijuana that's coming from California," Mr. Endress said. In 2009, about half of the Quad-Cities MEG busts were marijuana, and much of that was high-grade medicinal cannabis, he said.

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