UPDATED: Reports of possible marijuana drug raid on Pit River tribal land

[DreamSmoker]

ALTURAS, California - Federal drug enforcement agents are reportedly raiding Pit River tribal land in Alturas.

The owner of the Rim Rock Motel, about six miles west of the facility on Highway 395 that is being investigated, said agents began to swarm the area about 7 a.m.

Rory Flick reported seeing agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

He said the facility is on reservation land and is the site of a 10-acre marijuana cultivation operation.

A federal ruling in 2014 made it legal to grow and sell marijuana on sovereign lands.


http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/reports-of-possible-marijuana-drug-raid-on-pit-river-tribal-land

[Le Taz Hot]

1. I wonder if they're using the "water theft"

excuse again. This time it's DEA Agents so maybe not.

And what part of FEDERAL TRUST LAND don't these idjits understand?

[Initech]

2. Marijuana prohibition needs to end now!!!! How is this still a thing?

[Eleanors38]

3. California has a militant prohi head of the DEA. Lookin' for someplace to strut.

[hobbit709]

4. how long before any confiscated pot hits the streets?

That seems to happen a lot after one of these big fed busts.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Excellent observation.

[jwirr]

5. The SCOTUS supposedly gave tribes the right to grow and use MJ on their own lands. What

happened to that. Did someone forget to tell the DEA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives? Our tribe is looking at how this law will effect us.

[hobbit709]

6. the DEA has long felt it was above the law.

[jwirr]

8. Of course. Well this group of people (tribes) will go together into court against them. They will

not set back and let things go.