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Smoke and mirrors: Medical marijuana crackdowns in Livermore draw critics

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 13:06

LIVERMORE -- When police swooped in and effectively shut down the city's lone medical marijuana collective in a raid in March, cannabis advocates weren't surprised.

They said the action was emblematic of Livermore's heavy-handed crackdown on medical marijuana patients, exerting a level of force unlike any they've seen in other major Bay Area cities. Police, on the other hand, insist the people they are arresting are manipulating the law and committing criminal acts.

Nineteen years after California legalized medical cannabis, advocates claim that numerous card-carrying Livermore residents have had their families broken up and assets seized, and lost their homes, for doing what they thought was allowed under state law.

Chris Phillips talks about the day his home was raided by the Livermore police department in Livermore, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2015. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

"Livermore is cannaphobic," said Ron Mullins, executive director of Sacramento National Organization for...

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