Medical marijuana advocates have filed lawsuits in California’s four federal judicial districts aimed at quickly winning court orders to stop U.S. attorneys from shutting down dispensaries.
The lawsuits are the second legal challenge to the stepped-up enforcement efforts that the four prosecutors announced last month at a high-profile joint news conference in Sacramento.
Matt Kumin, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuits, said that the plaintiffs planned on Tuesday to ask the judges assigned to the cases for temporary restraining orders and hoped for a fast response.
“The government has gone well down the road to allowing medical cannabis in the United States,” he said. “It can’t reverse itself now, particularly because of the promises it made to the American people and the federal judiciary. They’re stuck.”
The 13-page lawsuits argue that the federal government’s threats to prosecute dispensary owners and their landlords conflicts with an agreement it made that led a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by patients with the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz. In that stipulation, the government said it would not use federal resources against medical marijuana patients who complied with state law.
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