Reader Response

March, 2002

"The recent enforcement is indicative that we have not lost our priorities in other areas since September 11."--a spokeswoman for the Justice Department on the first federal crackdown on medical marijuana clubs in three years. During the month following the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. agents destroyed a garden used to grow medical marijuana, seized documents from a lawyer who defends users and a doctor who sympathizes with them and raided a Los Angeles club that served more th...