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華盛頓-一次最近DEA襲擊在南Tahoe湖，加利福尼亞，醫療大麻防治所陳列Obama管理繼承的其中一種法律衝突。

1月。 22襲擊在加利福尼亞內華達邊界附近發生了二天，在Obama擔任了職務之後，并且，在新的總統的自己的司法部隊到位之前。 襲擊類似了與Obama的競選反對被舉辦在布什政府期間，但表面上撞擊的許多到這樣戰術。

「我在3月認為基本概念用醫療大麻為同樣目的和以控制和醫生規定的其他藥品一樣(是)整個地適當」， Obama告訴的俄勒岡』 S郵件Tribune報紙。 「我不使用司法部資源設法徊避州法關於這個論點」。

現在，援引Tahoe情節，醫療大麻活動家和民用自由意志論者敦促Obama冷凍未來襲擊。 一些希望， Obama將推翻布什政府判決并且讓另外的法律大麻生產發生。

至少，活動家和執法官員等候闡明關於什麼在醫療大麻世界被改變。 這可能花費時間。

「我們是有同情心的到管理是正義的得到它的腳在地面的事實」，大麻政策項目發言人丹Bernath在星期四， 「但是此說顯示他需要任命將尊敬他的原則和政策的夥計」。

被提名人檢察長埃里克持有人未由參議院證實，并且他提出的代理沒有一個確認聽證會。 在持有人的廣泛傾聽期間，詞組「醫療大麻」未曾出來，亦不在書面的後續問題由參議員問了。

Obama有提名一名永久DEA管理員，雖然代理管理員Michele Leonhart被認為一名潛在的候選人，并且是管理代辦處的第一名非洲裔美國人的婦女。 Obama，同樣，有提名全國藥物控制政策白宮辦公室的新的頭腦。

「新的藥物沙皇在加利福尼亞可能推薦是更加限制性的政策，或者更加寬大」，著名的比爾Ruzzamenti，中央榖高強度毒品交易地區的主任。

用聯邦被資助的職員在薩加門多和弗雷斯諾，中央榖HIDTA座標antidrug努力在10縣區域。 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.