PROTESTS CITE ARRESTS OF MEDICAL POT GROWERS

Medical marijuana advocates, outraged by a raid at a local
prescription pot supplier, protested at federal offices in several
cities in Northern California and across the country Friday.

On Thursday, federal agents raided a small pot farm located on a quiet
coastal road about 55 miles south of San Francisco. They pulled up
about 100 plants and arrested owners Valerie and Michael Corral.

The couple, leading proponents of using medical marijuana to ease
patients' pain, were the latest high-profile pot advocates to be
arrested in a series of law enforcement sweeps in the last year in
California.