CENTRAL POINT — For the second time in as many weeks, federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents have rolled into Jackson County to haul away dump trucks full of medical marijuana. CENTRAL POINT — For the second time in as many weeks, federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents have rolled into Jackson County to haul away dump trucks full of medical marijuana.

DEA agents, with assistance from various local law enforcement agencies, on Wednesday trucked away at least four large dump truck loads of marijuana from a property on East Gregory Road east of Central Point.

According to the latest statistics released by the state on Oct. 1, there are 55,322 patient cardholders in Oregon. In addition, there are 28,411 card-holding providers working in Oregon.

Between Oct. 1, 2010, and Sept. 1, 2011, the state received 21,722 new applications for medical marijuana cards. The number of renewal applications in that same time period stands at 30,416.

Jackson County remains second in the state for total number of medical marijuana cardholders, with 7,467. Multnomah County, which includes Portland, is first with 9,644 cardholders.

The property belongs to Brian Simmons, who is a medical marijuana provider. In addition, Simmons grows vegetables and hops on the property, said Lori Duckworth, the executive director of Southern Oregon NORML, a medical marijuana resource center in Medford.

The farm, which is in the 300 block of East Gregory Road, is the second Rogue Valley farm to be served a federal search warrant in a week. DEA agents also raided a large medical marijuana farm Sept. 27 on Old Stage Road in Gold Hill where more than 400 plants were seized.

Duckworth said she toured the property three weeks ago and said the marijuana garden was within state guidelines for plants allowed per patient. The site is less than a mile north of the Medford airport and about a half-mile east of Table Rock Road.

Duckworth said 22 patients who receive medical marijuana from the East Gregory Road garden are members of SONORML.