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Feds to target radio, newspapers for medical marijuana ads

• californiawatch.org

Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise medical marijuana dispensaries in California, another escalation in the Obama administration's newly invigorated war against the state's pot industry.

This month, U.S. attorneys representing four districts in California announced that the government would single out landlords and property owners who rent buildings or land where dispensaries sell or cultivators grow marijuana. Now, newspapers and other media outlets could be next.

U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties, said marijuana advertising is the next area she's "going to be moving onto as part of the enforcement efforts in Southern California." Duffy said she could not speak for the three other U.S. attorneys covering the state but noted their efforts have been coordinated so far.

"I'm not just seeing print advertising," Duffy said in an interview with California Watch and KQED. "I'm actually hearing radio and seeing TV advertising. It's gone mainstream. Not only is it inappropriate – one has to wonder what kind of message we're sending to our children – it's against the law."

 

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the idea that they make a plant illegal then what about washimgton dc idiots are sending our children to protect their masters poppy field does not this tell you they are wrong and we are right and we have rights that these scumsuckers has forgotten about it should be they should be taken and put n prison for dangerous illicit drugs being sold on the streets by these scumsuckers aand they have let the drug dealers have weapons via deaa dia and the police and the batfaggots is not that correct ! 



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