Lanie Grainger mans the reception desk at the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax, California, owned by Lynnette Shaw. It was welcome news to many people in California, where voters passed a pioneering law in 1996 legalizing marijuana for medical use. After years of federal raids, many people in the state's medical cannabis community felt they had a friend in the White House. Since then, federal officials have threatened property owners across the state with forfeiture and criminal charges for letting pot dispensaries rent office space from them. - San Francisco Gate November 14, 2011
