The crackdown that shuttered hundreds of storefront shops and large-scale medical marijuana growers in certain regions was a homegrown request from local governments.

The crackdown that shuttered hundreds of storefront shops and large-scale medical marijuana growers in certain regions was a homegrown request from local governments, with a boost from California's U.S. attorneys, not a top-down directive from the White House, reports the Daily Journal.

Responding to complaints from city and county officials and residents who opposed medical marijuana, representatives for the state's four U.S. attorneys last year held a series of joint meetings to develop a response.

After the proposed campaign was drawn up, Eastern District U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, whose district spans 15 counties from Bakersfield to the Oregon border and who sits on an advisory committee to U.S. Attorney General Holder, went to Washington, D.C. to personally present the plan to Holder and other top Justice Department officials.

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Riley Guerin

Daily Journal Staff Writer
rguerin@journaltech.com

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