One of California's most renowned marijuana-growing counties is fighting a federal grand jury subpoena, seeking to protect the names of pot growers who agreed to let the local sheriff inspect their gardens and count their plants.A federal grand jury in San Francisco has subpoenaed all records for a landmark Mendocino County program, in which the county collected $630,000 in permit fees from as many as 500 people licensed as medical marijuana growers in 2010 and 2011.Mendocino County officials filed court papers Dec. 21 seeking to quash the subpoena as "burdensome and oppressive," saying it violates the county's duty to protect the confidentiality of medical marijuana users and its authority to regulate medicinal cultivation under California state law.
