DEA Raids Colorado Medical Marijuana Grower in Highlands Ranch Video
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration Agents raided a Highlands Ranch home of a grower who gave 9 News an interview and tour of his operation.
Jeffry Sweetin the Denver DEA Special Agent involved in the bust appears to have waged war on medical marijuana in Colorado over the last few months despite orders to defer to state medical marijuana laws. Sweetin has been quoted as saying:
"The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody."
These Colorado Medical Marijuana raids will likely continue given Sweetin's disregard for Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden's memo advising federal law enforcement that people using medical marijuana in "clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws" should not be targeted for arrest. In the memo Deputy Attorney General David Ogden states that:
"One timely example underscores the importance of our efforts to prosecute significant marijuana traffickers: marijuana distribution in the United States remains the single largest source of revenue for the Mexican cartels."
Sweetin is clearly avoiding the real and urgent danger of marijuana trafficking by Mexican Mafia and going after the low hanging fruit, the easy going, peaceful, solitary growers. It appears once again that our taxpayer money and voters rights are being abused by these lazy, rogue DEA agents. What about the violent mexican drug cartels? What about the meth lab next door?
The Highlands Ranch grower in this case clearly taunted Sweetin and the DEA to the point they felt justified in raiding his medical marijuana growing operation. While the DEA clearly shouldn't be wasting taxpayer resources going after growers like Bartkowicz, it wasn't the wisest decision to allow 9 News access to his operation.
The channel 9 News video story that featuredChris Bartkowicz and his Highlands Ranch medical marijuana growing operation is shown below: