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As our colleague Ray Stern pointed out yesterday, it was not even a year ago that Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk declared the feds would shut down every medical-marijuana dispensary in Arizona “as it opens.”
Stern called bull on Polk’s claims at the time, and as you can tell at this point — since dispensaries are opening, and all — Polk was wrong.
See also:
–Sheila Polk Was Wrong: 16 Medical-Pot Dispensaries Now Open in AZ and Not Being Shut Down by Feds
–Sheila Polk’s Letter to Brewer Misstates AZ U.S. Attorney’s Position on Medical Marijuana
Since the first dispensary, Arizona Organix, opened late last year, more than a dozen dispensaries have opened their doors for business — none of which have been shut down by federal authorities.
It’s long been the argument of Arizona’s medical-marijuana foes that the federal government says it’s illegal, so it’s definitely a no-go (a funny argument, coming from those who cry “state’s rights” on every other issue).
So far, there’s been nothing from the feds. Last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona issued a statement saying it would “follow Department of Justice policy on medical marijuana,” which is that busting medical-marijuana patients “likely is not an efficient use of federal resources.”
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