Federal prosecutors and the DEA are going after the medical records of medical-marijuana patients in Oregon as part of an ongoing crackdown on marijuana growers, the Oregonian reported Aug. 11.

In April, a federal grand jury subpeonaed the medical records of 17 patients as the DEA confronted marijuana providers acting under the state's medical-marijuana law. A federal judge is now considering whether to throw out the subpoenas.

"It's crazy. It's really scary. If they can get my records, they can get Gov. Kulongoski's, they can get yours," said Donald DuPay, a former Portland police officer and 2006 candidate for Multnomah County sheriff who said his records were subpoenaed.

The subpoenas were served on the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, a state office that certifies medical-marijuana patients and growers, and The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, a private health clinic. In a court hearing seeking to quash the subpoenas, federal officials allowed that the subpoenas had been poorly drafted and should have requested only patient addresses and phone numbers, not medical information.

"People have an expectation of medical privacy, and I think they have a right to expect medical privacy," said Bruce Mirkin, a spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project. "It's one thing to talk about people selling a product that is in fact not legal under federal law. We may think that's stupid. But that's in a whole different realm than obtaining people's medical records."