From Reason.com:
Yesterday Radley Balko noted that on Friday the Drug Enforcement Administration busted Chris Bartkowicz, a medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, despite the Justice Department’s announcement that it would stop prosecuting such individuals if they are complying with state law. Did Bartkowicz’s operation comply with state law? The short answer is “probably,” at least as the law is currently understood. But that is not good enough to qualify him for the Justice Department’s newfound tolerance, which applies only to “individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.”
Colorado’s law, like California’s, allows patients or their “primary caregivers” to grow and possess marijuana for medical use. The general limit is two ounces of pot and six plants per…