Patients around the world relying on a little feel-good pain relief from nibbling on marijuana-laced snacks baked at a California factory will be out of luck because federal agents closed it down.

Drug Enforcement Administration officials said agents raided the Tainted Inc. factory in Oakland on Wednesday and arrested several people. They also seized 460 marijuana plants along with a variety of pot-laced products intended for medical users of the drug. Those products included such things as barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels, candy bars, cookies, marshmallow pies, ice cream, peanut butter, jelly, energy drinks and "Rice Krispy treats."

The products were designed for people with medical conditions who live in states with laws that allow them to consume marijuana for pain relief. Many patients prefer to ingest the drug rather than smoke it.

But the federal government prefers that patients don't smoke or nibble marijuana, despite the fact that states such as California have laws that allow patients to puff or nibble on marijuana for medical conditions.

When Michael Martin, 33, of El Sobrante, began Tainted Inc., it was a small operation making chocolate truffles.

When the feds raided the company, it was shipping products to medical marijuana dispensaries in California and in Seattle; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Amsterdam.

But authorities said the operation was also distributing products to Los Angeles pot clubs. Whether that is true or not, the feds said they had information that indicated Tainted Inc. had ordered four tons of chocolate over the past two years to make grass-laced candy.

In addition to that, federal officials say it doesn't matter where the candy was going because they don't recognize state drug laws allowing distribution of marijuana and marijuana-laced products for medicinal uses anyway.

But one of the defendant's lawyers doesn't think it's all that fair for the feds to disregard state laws.

"This appears to be represent[ing], once again, the federal government taking umbrage with the fact that California has legalized medical marijuana for medical patients," an attorney for one of the defendants was quoted by CBS news as saying.