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华盛顿？ 一次最近DEA袭击在南Tahoe湖，加利福尼亚，医疗大麻防治所陈列Obama管理继承的其中一种法律冲突。

1月。 22袭击在加利福尼亚内华达边界附近发生了二天，在Obama担任了职务之后，并且，在新的总统的自己的司法部队到位之前。 袭击类似了与Obama的竞选反对被举办在布什政府期间，但表面上撞击的许多到这样战术。

“我在3月认为基本概念用医疗大麻为同样目的和以控制和医生规定的其他药品一样(是)整个地适当”， Obama告诉的俄勒冈’ S邮件Tribune报纸。 “我不使用司法部资源设法徊避州法关于这个论点”。

现在，援引Tahoe情节，医疗大麻活动家和民用自由意志论者敦促Obama冷冻未来袭击。 一些希望， Obama将推翻布什政府判决并且让另外的法律大麻生产发生。

至少，活动家和执法官员等候阐明关于什么在医疗大麻世界被改变。 这可能花费时间。

“我们是有同情心的到管理是正义的得到它的脚在地面的事实”，大麻政策项目发言人丹Bernath在星期四， “但是此说显示他需要任命将尊敬他的原则和政策的伙计”。

被提名人检察长埃里克持有人未由参议院证实，并且他提出的代理没有一个确认听证会。 词组“医疗大麻”未曾出来在持有人的广泛倾听期间，亦不在书面的后续参议员问的问题。

Obama有提名一名永久DEA管理员，虽然代理管理员Michele Leonhart被认为一名潜在的候选人，并且是管理代办处的第一名非洲裔美国人的妇女。 Obama，同样，有提名全国药物控制政策白宫办公室的新的头脑。

“新的药物沙皇在加利福尼亚可能推荐是更加限制性的政策，或者更加宽大”，着名的比尔Ruzzamenti，中央谷高强度毒品交易地区的主任。

With federally funded staff in Sacramento and Fresno, the Central Valley HIDTA coordinates antidrug efforts in a 10-county area. It participated in a high-profile investigation into the California Healthcare Collective, a Modesto-based medical marijuana dispensary whose founders were sentenced last year to long prison terms on charges of running a criminal enterprise.

“The ones that are targeted are the ones making millions and millions of dollars,” Ruzzamenti said.

Federal agents during the past two years similarly have raided organizations in Bakersfield, Vallejo, San Mateo and other California cities. The most recent raid, on South Lake Tahoe’s Patient-to-Patient Collective, seized five to 10 pounds of marijuana and a small amount of cash, according to police reports. No arrests were made.

By one count, the DEA has raided more than 60 medical marijuana facilities nationwide during the past two years, including a July raid in Seattle in which agents seized hundreds of patient files. The ongoing raids underscore a running conflict between state and federal laws.

Through a 1996 ballot measure, approved by California voters with a 55 percent to 45 percent margin, patients can obtain medical marijuana with doctors’ permission. Ten other states, including Washington and Nevada, have followed California’s lead.

Several hundred marijuana dispensaries are now publicly listed by the California branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, with names such as High Flight Deliveries in Stockton, Mr. Purple Skunk in Modesto and Earth Meds in Tulare County.

These dispensaries, and their counterparts in other states, have been on thin ice following a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that empowered federal authorities to prosecute marijuana purveyors even in states that permit medical marijuana use. Bush’s drug czar, John Walters, championed such prosecutions.

Leonhart, a week before Bush left office, likewise took a hard line in issuing a 118-page decision rejecting a DEA administrative law judge’s recommendation to allow a University of Massachusetts researcher to grow higher-quality medicinal marijuana. The American Civil Liberties Union and medical marijuana proponents hope this last-minute rejection, coming two years after the judge issued a positive recommendation, is put on hold until Obama’s team is fully in place.