Armed robbery or public safety?
Last week, MPP’s Dan Bernath compared the DEA’s continuing to raid state-legal medical marijuana providers and obstructing research to those of a chicken with its head cut off. Yesterday, that damn chicken continued to wreak havoc on California.
While new attorney general Eric Holder was being sworn into office in Washington, D.C., DEA agents armed with semi-automatic weapons were kicking in the doors of medical marijuana collectives in Los Angeles.
These raids looked a lot more like armed robberies than legitimate law enforcement actions. No arrests were made but agents reportedly stormed in, grabbed all the medical marijuana they could, and made off with whatever cash was in the registers.
The string of four operations was carried out with the kind of efficiency one would only expect from experienced criminals. Agents were able to seize the spoils and head off to rob – er… I mean, “raid” – the next facility before the victims even knew what hit them.
The LA Times reports that the DEA didn’t even bother to notify local law enforcement of their actions.
Local officials in Los Angeles, who are currently working on a plan to regulate medical marijuana facilities, have already taken a stand against these federal actions. It’s time for President Obama and Attorney General Holder to listen to the Angelenos – and voters across the nation – who support medical marijuana and finally put an end to these attacks.
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This is the type of thing that hinders america. our government agents wasting tax payer time and money. They didn’t even bother arresting anyone, they just stole essentially. Are they even allowed to operate in a state without state official consent? To get a warrant don’t you need a judge to give you one? why would a judge issue one if the state he presides in actually allows what the distributors were doing? sounds kinda silly if you ask me.
They should be arrested
for what? obeying state laws? DEA should be arrested.
They are a band of criminal Theives and we should not stand for this injustice any further!
“What would you do to save your child’s life?” is a question I asked Congress woman Dianne Feinstein who took the time to write back. Let’s take the pipe from the pot and use Cannabis in the mouth. We are mothers who care, what happens to our children.
(S.T.o.P) Safe Treatment of Patients, is just that.
What ever makes me sick and I do mean sick, is for me and my doctor.
I want to be treated fairly and safely, as you do. So I may live what life I have left.
Onelove
the DEA need to be arrested, thats BS
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If we’re serious about securing our borders, protecting our children from drug-dealing murderers, and pumping some much-needed revenue into the public treasury, we’ll implement a Personal Use and Cultivation Permit, similar to a fishing permit, allowing ordinary Americans to grow a little marijuana in their own back yards. Sold by the States and splitting the revenue 50-50 with the Federal treasury, it the permit cost $100 per year, and if even one-third of the estimated 30Million Americans who use marijuana each year were to obtain such a permit, it would pump a Billion dollars into the public pocketbook AND rip the guts out of the criminal drug gangs’ cash flow. Right now, we put our own children in prison with violent criminals for doing something that both our current Democratic President and the recent Republican Vice Presidential candidate acknowledge having done themselves. Let’s put the drug dealing criminals out of business and let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards.
Give Obama time to make it right folks. Relief is coming but you have to have patience.
Obama is positioning himself for the re-election. The voter base that comes along with supporting the legalization movement is the proverbial ace in the hole.
Think about it, why else would he want to dodge the issue and avoid directly confronting it. It is a simple problem to solve. The bills that would fix the problem are introduced every year to Congress and every year subsequently shot down before they even get out of committee. It makes me frustrated, but I see no relief in sight for the next 2-3 years, but by the time 2011-2012 comes around he is going to sweep in to mop up all the praise for “single handly solving the problem”. For the mean time the DEA is going to stuff their pockets as full as they can with OUR money/ medicine all the while saying SCREW YOU, WHY DONT YOU TRY TO STOP ME!
The point is, is that YES it is only a matter of time before sanity is restored, but for people that are DYING and getting their medicine STOLEN by the ones who are supposed to PROTECT US, it might be TO LITTLE, TO LATE…and that is the biggest tradegy of them all……
dearchristianconservative:
Since when does any gov have the right to charge for
“permits” to grow one of God’s NATURAL plants?
So next will I need a permit to grow other medicinal herbs for myself and my family and friends?
Does a farmer need a permit to grow a field of corn?
If I can provide for myself without the government’s help,
then the gov has not earned the right to take ANY of what I provide for myself nor interfere with my ability to do so.
If the gov wants my hundred bucks (that I don’t have) it will have to give me a hundred bucks worth of services or benefits in return.
WE all have God’s permission to grow Cannabis. If it were not allowed, it would not exist!!!
God does not charge a hundred bucks for a permit.
Permits are just another scam technique for the ReverseRobbin’Hoods to rip us off with impunity.
aka taxation without representation
aka exploitation of the People and abuse of power
aka “just us’s”
aka the “deciders”
THIS JUST IN:
“A special panel of federal judges tentatively ruled Monday that California must release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding…”
“The order comes as California struggles to bridge a $42 billion budget deficit that is forcing the state to furlough its employees two days each month.”
link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29108435/
Now would be a good time to lobby for the release of those put in prison for non-violent ‘crimes’, such as marijuana possession.
The communication between the police and DEA is crazy. If everyone ran their business that way, they would be in debt, too. what was the point!?
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