Sheriff raids Mendocino Indian pot farm tribe says is legal

An Indian tribe’s plans to harvest and distribute medical marijuana in Ukiah was nipped in the bud this week when Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies seized hundreds of plants at two properties, officials said Wednesday.

Days after deputies investigating an activated burglar alarm found a group of people loading marijuana from the Pinoleville Pomo Nation tribal lands into a building about a mile away, investigators executed two search warrants and seized hundreds of plants.

Authorities say when they searched a building Tuesday on North State Street, about a mile from the tribe’s rancheria, they found the makings of a honey oil chemical-extraction lab, which could produce a highly concentrated form of cannabis. They also found more than 100 pounds of trimmed and processed marijuana, the sheriff’s office said.

Meanwhile, authorities serving a warrant at the 99-acre rancheria down the road found 382 marijuana plants and more that had been harvested. No...

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