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Authorities raid 247
Colorado homes growing
black market pot
May to quit as party leader,
opening race for new PM
By DAN ELLIOTT
Associated Press
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON — Theresa
May ended her failed three-
year quest to lead Britain
out of the European Union
on Friday, announcing that
she will step down as Con-
servative Party leader June
7 and triggering a contest to
choose a new prime minis-
ter who will try to complete
Brexit.
“I have done my best,”
May said in a speech out-
side 10 Downing St., as close
aides and her husband Philip
looked on, before acknowl-
edging that it was not good
enough.
Concluding her remarks,
she struggled to contain her
emotions and her voice broke
as she expressed “endur-
ing gratitude to have had
the opportunity to serve the
country I love.”
Then she turned and
strode through the famous
black door of No. 10.
May will stay on as a
caretaker prime minister
until the new leader is cho-
sen, a process the Conserva-
tives aim to complete by late
July. The new party leader
will become prime minister
without the need for a gen-
eral election.
She became prime minis-
ter the month after the U.K.
voted in June 2016 to leave
the European Union, and
her premiership has been
consumed by the attempt to
deliver on that verdict.
May was brought down
by Brexit, but her nemesis
wasn’t the EU, with which
she successfully struck a
divorce deal.
She was felled by her own
Conservative Party, which
refused to accept it. The plan
was defeated three times in
Parliament, rejected both by
pro-EU opposition lawmak-
ers and by Brexit-supporting
Conservatives who thought
it kept Britain too closely
bound to the bloc.
Many Conservative law-
makers came to see May as
DENVER — Authori-
ties said Friday they raided
hundreds of black mar-
ket marijuana operations
in Colorado that fl outed
the state’s cannabis law by
growing tens of thousands
of plants in Denver-area
homes and selling the drugs
out of state.
Investigators
seized
more than 80,000 plants
and 4,500 pounds of har-
vested marijuana, state and
federal prosecutors said at a
news conference. Offi cers
raided 247 homes and eight
businesses and arrested 42
people in Denver and seven
nearby counties.
State law allows up to
12 marijuana plants per
residence for personal use,
but some of the homes had
more than 1,000 and many
had hundreds, U.S. Attor-
ney Jason Dunn said.
Colorado and nine other
states have broadly legal-
ized marijuana use but it
remains illegal under fed-
eral law. That has created
tension between some state
and federal offi cials.
But George Brauchler,
district attorney for the
south and east Denver sub-
urbs, stressed the investiga-
tion was a joint state-fed-
eral operation, not the
U.S. Department of Jus-
tice imposing its will on
Colorado.
“Make no mistake, we
are equal partners in this,”
Brauchler said.
State and federal offi -
cials said the nearly three-
year investigation showed
that illegal marijuana traf-
fi cking mushroomed after
voters approved recre-
ational use in 2012.
Dunn said Colorado has
become the epicenter for a
nationwide black market in
marijuana.
Brauchler warned that
Colorado is becoming “the
AP Photo/Frank Augstein
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip leave a polling station after vot-
ing in the European Elections in Sonning, England, on Thursday.
an obstacle and blamed her
for the U.K.’s failure to leave
the EU on the scheduled date
of March 29. The bloc has
extended that deadline until
Oct. 31 in hope Britain’s pol-
iticians can break their polit-
ical deadlock.
The pressure on May
reached breaking point this
week as House of Commons
Leader Andrea Leadsom
quit and several Cabinet col-
leagues rejected the bill she
planned to put before Parlia-
ment in a fourth attempt to
secure lawmakers’ backing
for her Brexit blueprint.
In her farewell speech,
May defended her record,
saying she had “negotiated
the terms of our exit and a
new relationship with our
closest neighbors that pro-
tects jobs, our security and
our Union.”
“I have done everything I
can to convince MPs to back
that deal,” she said. “Sadly, I
have not been able to do so.”
“It is now clear to me that
it is in the best interests of
the country for a new prime
minister to lead that effort,”
she added.
Multiple contenders are
already jockeying to replace
her in a contest that will see
a new leader chosen by Con-
servative lawmakers and
party members. The early
front-runner is Boris John-
son, a former foreign secre-
tary and strong champion of
Brexit. Other contenders are
likely to include Leadsom,
Foreign Secretary Jeremy
Hunt and former Brexit Sec-
retary Dominic Raab.
Johnson, whose relentless
criticism helped push May
out of the door, tweeted:
“Thank you for your stoical
service to our country and
the Conservative Party. It is
now time to follow her urg-
ings: to come together and
deliver Brexit.”
Whether it is Johnson or
another contender, the next
prime minister is likely to be
a staunch Brexiteer, who will
try to renegotiate the divorce
deal, and if that fails, to leave
the bloc without an agree-
ment on the terms of the
departure.
“The person who will
replace her will embrace the
possibility of a no deal with
alacrity rather than fear,”
said Steven Fielding, profes-
sor of political history at the
University of Nottingham.
“They will have to embrace it
if they want to be elected by
wild West of weed.” He
said the provision in the
law that allows small-scale
home marijuana cultivation
opened the door to big, ille-
gal operations.
Brauchler warned that
other states considering
allowing home marijuana
plants could expect the
same but added he was not
trying to discourage them
from doing so.
“I think states are enti-
tled to do whatever they
want,” he said. “But they
need to know the reality of
this.”
Mason Tvert, a spokes-
man for the Marijuana Pol-
icy Project, which advo-
cates for decriminalizing
marijuana, questioned how
prosecutors know that Col-
orado’s law attracted illegal
growers.
“Did they conduct a
survey of illegal mari-
juana cultivators to deter-
mine why they decided to
operate where they did?”
he said. “Are they able to
know whether those opera-
tions existed prior to legal-
ization or not?”
Tvert blamed the illegal
operations on states that
still ban marijuana, and
said if they legalized and
regulated it as Colorado
does, there would be little
illegal production.
Dunn said investigators
plan to use federal forfei-
ture laws to seize 41 homes,
25 vehicles and $2.2 mil-
lion in cash connected to
the marijuana operations.
He said the 41 homes
have an average market
value of $400,000.
“These grow operations
are not occurring in aban-
doned houses or poor parts
of the metro area,” he said.
“These are happening in
middle- and upper-class
neighborhoods where many
of us live and raise families,
and they’re occurring all
over the metro area.”
the Tory party membership.”
Most businesses and
economists think that would
cause economic turmoil and
plunge Britain into reces-
sion. Parliament has voted
to rule out a no-deal Brexit,
though it remains the legal
default option.
But many Conservatives
think embracing a no-deal
Brexit may be the only way
to keep the support of voters
who opted in 2016 to leave
the EU.
The Conservatives expect
to take a bruising when
results come in late Sunday
from this week’s European
Parliament election, which
many British voters are
expected to use to express
displeasure over the politi-
cal gridlock. Opinion polls
suggest Conservative vot-
ers deserting in droves to the
single-issue Brexit Party led
by Nigel Farage.
Any attempt to take Brit-
ain out of the EU without a
deal will be fi ercely resisted
by Parliament, and could
see pro-Europeans leave the
Conservative Party.
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