Here's the
Drug Czar's blog gloating over the DEA's raid of the Local Patient's Cooperative in Hayward, CA:
The DEA took down another illegal marijuana dispensary in California. The owners were selling pot for profit under the guise of "medicinal use." Police seized pot cookies and expensive cars. More here (with video).
Notice the careful language used here. We're told that this was an "illegal marijuana dispensary" that used medical use as a "guise" to make money. As dispensary raids have increased in recent months, DEA has claimed each time that they're targeting clubs that engage in recreational sales. Similarly, ONDCP's blog post clearly implies that LPC was uniquely criminal in its conduct.
In other words, DEA and now ONDCP are tacitly condoning dispensaries that only sell to patients!