Bowing to pressure from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the supervisors of Mendocino County revoked its permit program for cultivating medical marijuana.

The program allowed collectives to grow up to 99 plants. Each of the plants needed to be tagged with zip ties, bought from the county, to prove they were compliant with the permitting program. The revenue from the ties and permits went to the county's sheriff department.

However, Supervisor Dan Hamburg told The Ukiah Daily Journal the U.S. Attorney was threatening to file an injunction to invalidate the law in court and to prosecute county officials who supported the program — because it was their opinion the permitting program violated federal law.