OAKLAND, Calif. – The attorney for a California medical marijuana dispensary billed as the nation’s largest says federal prosecutors are stopping a nearly four-year effort to seize the dispensary’s property.

Henry Wykowski, the attorney for Harborside Health Center in Oakland, said Tuesday that prosecutors agreed last week to drop their civil forfeiture case against Harborside. Wykowski said prosecutors did not explain why. He said the paperwork still has to be filed with the court, which he expected would happen this week. Harborside also has a dispensary on North 10th Street in San Jose.

Abraham Simmons, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Northern California, said the office had no comment.

The federal government’s decision to end the case against Harborside would be the second time in recent months it has backed off a California medical marijuana dispensary. [Read more at NBCBayArea.com]