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At about 9:30 a.m. yesterday, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided The High Hopes Farm, James Bowman’s medical marijuana operation outside Jacksonville, Oregon. The government brought earth-moving equipment to remove Bowman's crop. The farm was one of the biggest in Oregon.

Bowman, who is a longtime fixture in southern Oregon’s medical marijuana community, now faces the prospect of federal drug charges, but sources say he’s not supposed to be taken into custody.

Lori Duckworth, a medical marijuana activist who lives in Josephine County and works at a medical marijuana resource center in Medford, Oregon, said she was en route to Bowman’s operation to protest the federal government’s action.

“I am not on my way here to support James Bowman or High Hopes Farm,” she said. “I am here to protest if they seize any of the patients’ medicine.”

“These patients are now losing their medicine.”

Duckworth said she was not surprised by the crackdown on High Hopes.

“He was so large and so frank and so open about his operation that at some point he would be a target,” she said. 

The feds are probably hoping the raids send a message to others to close up shop.

Martin Hensley, a medical marijuana patient of Bowman’s who lives in Portland, was stunned.

“Are you serious,” said Hensley. “Lord, have mercy. I can’t believe it. What am I going to do?”

Hensley said he planned to get more marijuana from Bowman in November.

“It leaves me empty-handed,” he said.

But the federal government doesn’t care. The DEA, Attorney General Eric Holder, not even President Obama cares. The crackdown continues. The threats and raids continue and there will be no repercussions for President Obama because the GOP nominee is a complete idiot. Hopefully things will change in a second term.

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com