DENVER DEA: DRUG RINGS, NOT MEDICAL POT

DENVER - Denver's top Drug Enforcement Administration agent says he'd
rather his agents focus on international drug rings than medical
marijuana growers.

Denver DEA Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Sweetin in an interview
with The Denver Post editorial board Monday says that aggravating
factors must be involved before his agents raid a medical marijuana
grow.

Those factors include links to criminal organizations, feeding the
marijuana black market or operating "far over the line" of state law.
Sweetin's comments come less than a week before sentencing for
Christopher Bartkowicz, who was arrested Feb. 12 in a high profile
raid.

DEA agents raided Bartkowicz's home after he told a television station
about his marijuana growing operation in his basement.