S.F. Sheriff Refuses to Close Marijuana Club
Sheriff Mike Hennessey is refusing to enforce a court order to close San Francisco’s Cannabis Buyers’ Club, which sold marijuana to medical patients to ease their suffering and boost their appetites.
“I would hope that the attorney general would understand that our community does not wish to spend precious law enforcement dollars busting people engaged in distributing marijuana for medical purposes,” Hennessey said Wednesday in a letter to Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren, who obtained the court order.
The club, which had operated openly for five years without interference from city officials or police, was raided Sunday by Lungren’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. Agents said they seized 150 pounds of marijuana, $60,000 in cash and about 11,000 records of pot-smoking clients.
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