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...coffee pot," said Anne H. Jump '01. "When the signs went up warning about inspections, I wrapped it up. Now it's disguised as a Christmas present...
...enforcement agencies are in a quandary over what to do about clubs like Peron's. A few cities, such as Concord and Palo Alto, have instituted moratoriums on pot clubs. California attorney general Dan Lungren, a law-and-order Republican, is pursuing civil and criminal litigation against Peron's club; he says undercover cops have bought marijuana there without a doctor's recommendation and that videotapes have shown minors on the premises...
Federal officials are in an especially delicate position. Marijuana use, even for medical purposes, is still outlawed by the U.S. government, and Attorney General Janet Reno has vowed to continue enforcing that law. But federal officials have been reluctant to crack down on the pot clubs that were created in response to the will of California voters. In April agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Bay Area cannabis club called Flower Therapy and seized 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment, charging that the club was distributing pot in quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers...
...federal judge to halt a drug-distribution operation. The advantages of this approach are that the case is decided by a judge, not a jury, and the government need not prove the club's proprietors acted with criminal intent. A club operator who persists in peddling pot could then face a fine or imprisonment for contempt of court...
Antidrug activists fear that pot clubs, if allowed to thrive, could open the way to further relaxation of drug policy. Steve Dnistrian of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America claims that heartrending medical stories are a being used as a smoke screen "by people whose agenda is to radically change drug policy in America." On that point, at least, Peron seems in agreement. "This is not about marijuana as medicine," he says. "This is a cultural...