AG HOLDER'S MEDICAL POT DISPENSARY REMARKS ANALYZED

Recent remarks by new United States Attorney General Eric Holder at a
Wednesday press conference have the AG on the record in response to a
question on medical marijuana dispensaries.

"Right after the inauguration, there was some raids in California of
medical marijuana dispensaries....was that a deliberate decision by
you, by the Justice Department? Is that a prediction of policy going
forward? Do you expect those sorts of raids to continue, based on
what the President said during the campaign," according to a
transcript from the U.S. Department of Justice.

"Well, what the president said during the campaign, you will be
surprised to know, will be consistent with what we will be doing here
in law enforcement. He was my boss during the campaign. He is
formally and technically and by law my boss now, and so what he said
during the campaign is now American policy," the transcript stated.

What exactly Holder said Obama was talking about during his campaign
is up for interpretation.

Herban Legend is a marijuana dispensary located on the Mendocino
Coast, and the "federal government appears to be leaving it up to
local jurisdiction," Paula Deeter, of Herban Legend said Friday.

The Sheriff's Office is in closer relation to California Attorney
General Jerry Brown's Office than it is to Holder's office.

"He (AG Brown) has said, aside from 11 pages of guidelines that are
on our Web site, that he is waiting to hear from the United States
Attorney General and the Kelly case," Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said.

"I would love for it (the Kelly decision) to come out in March," said Allman.

Allman said that there has not been a lot of focus on dispensaries
from the Sheriff's Office because there have not been a lot of complaints.

"Legal medical marijuana will continue to be respected in Mendocino
County," Allman said.