Medical Marijuana - The persecution builds

And so it begins. So much for the government's claim that they don't target sick people.

Federal drug agents launched a wide-ranging crackdown on medical marijuana providers Wednesday, charging a husband and wife in Sacramento and raiding more than 20 San Francisco dispensaries.

What jerks. They claim it has nothing to do with the Raich deicision but this remark is telling.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown in Sacramento said the Supreme Court ruling "lays to rest any question whether federal authorities have jurisdiction."

And of course the DEA claims they were just pretending to be medmar providers.

"They were taking their (medical) clients and turning them into their customer base" for illegal marijuana sales, [DEA agent] Taylor said.

Right. Why don't these guys get off their butts and do some real police work for a change? Over and above the inhumanity of harassing sick people, what really bugs me is how lazy it is to be taking easy hits against marijuana providers at the expense of serious crimes.