OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – Federal agents, pressing a government clampdown on medical marijuana, raided a San Francisco Bay-area college known as the “Princeton of Pot” on Monday and briefly detained its founder. The sweep turned Oaksterdam University, which offers courses in the growing and dispensing of marijuana, into the latest flashpoint between federal law enforcement and medical cannabis advocates in California and other states where cannabis has been decriminalized for medicinal purposes. …

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