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While San Diego city leaders work on balanced regulation providing access while protecting neighborhoods, federal agents raided a downtown collective.
The move was described as intimidation by the city’s mayor who is demanding to know why the raid took place.
The Narcotics Task Force broke down the door at the "One-on-One" collective in the Gaslamp Quarter Tuesday morning. Officials said the action was part of an ongoing investigation and the execution of more than 10 federal warrants targeting indoor grows in the Oceanside and Escondido areas.
The collective was linked to those grows said Patrick Kelly Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Narcotics Task Force.
Agents removed dozens of boxes of evidence, while protestors taunted them.
Hours later, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner questioned the timing and the reason for the raid.
Filner has proposed an ordinance allowing dispensaries to distribute marijuana in commercial and industrial zones but no closer than 600 feet from each other, schools, parks, playgrounds and childcare centers. Operator background checks, security guards and cameras would be required.
The ordinance would require $5,000 annual permit fees and a 2-percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana purchases by the dispensary.
After discussing the ordinance Monday, the City Council referred numerous questions, concerns and suggested revisions to the City Attorney and other officials for review.
“The very next day, what does the Fed do? They step in, they interfere, they try to intimidate, they try to shut down safe access,” said Eugene Davidovich with Americans for Safe Access.
Mayor Filner is demanding answers from federal and county authorities and questioned the timing of the DEA’s action.
“The very person who spoke out at the meeting last night is then raided today, that does not seem to be the way that police ought to operate in our society,” Filner said.
He said Tuesday’s crackdown is exactly what he has argued against since becoming mayor.
“It just incites people, it just provokes people. It doesn't help discussion, rational discussion,” said Filner. “I'm sorry that it took place. And I haven't got a real good explanation for why.”
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While San Diego city leaders work on balanced regulation providing access while protecting neighborhoods, federal agents raided a downtown collective.
The move was described as intimidation by the city’s mayor who is demanding to know why the raid took place.
The Narcotics Task Force broke down the door at the "One-on-One" collective in the Gaslamp Quarter Tuesday morning. Officials said the action was part of an ongoing investigation and the execution of more than 10 federal warrants targeting indoor grows in the Oceanside and Escondido areas.
The collective was linked to those grows said Patrick Kelly Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Narcotics Task Force.
Agents removed dozens of boxes of evidence, while protestors taunted them.
Hours later, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner questioned the timing and the reason for the raid.
Filner has proposed an ordinance allowing dispensaries to distribute marijuana in commercial and industrial zones but no closer than 600 feet from each other, schools, parks, playgrounds and childcare centers. Operator background checks, security guards and cameras would be required.
The ordinance would require $5,000 annual permit fees and a 2-percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana purchases by the dispensary.
After discussing the ordinance Monday, the City Council referred numerous questions, concerns and suggested revisions to the City Attorney and other officials for review.
“The very next day, what does the Fed do? They step in, they interfere, they try to intimidate, they try to shut down safe access,” said Eugene Davidovich with Americans for Safe Access.
Mayor Filner is demanding answers from federal and county authorities and questioned the timing of the DEA’s action.
“The very person who spoke out at the meeting last night is then raided today, that does not seem to be the way that police ought to operate in our society,” Filner said.
He said Tuesday’s crackdown is exactly what he has argued against since becoming mayor.
“It just incites people, it just provokes people. It doesn't help discussion, rational discussion,” said Filner. “I'm sorry that it took place. And I haven't got a real good explanation for why.”
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