BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Dozens of people demonstrated Saturday in downtown Bakersfield, calling for the legalization of marijuana.

Carrying signs saying "I'm a stoner and I vote" and "Cannabis is safer than alcohol," supporters walked from Beach Park to the Liberty Bell, where they held a rally.

Demonstrators said that since California voters more than 10 years ago passed Proposition 215, which allows the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, federal authorities should have no right to raid legal dispensaries and that federal law making marijuana illegal supercedes the state law. Drug enforcement agents seized several pounds of pot Tuesday at a dispensary in Oildale.

Some supporters said that the federal government should legalize marijuana and impose taxes on it to generate millions, if not billions of dollars in revenue.