Comments on: DEA in California: New story but same old dirty tricks

By: John Wacker

John Wacker — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:09:58 +0000

Sounds good. John McCain’s (kis wife’s) alcohol distribution business might also be a good place for them to look.

By: Va Patriot

Va Patriot — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:13:46 +0000

We don’t even have to lay off the DEA . I would think they would make good border patrol . They say were lacking in that area anyway …

By: John Wacker

John Wacker — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:56:49 +0000

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. The DEA employees continue playing the game because they have nothing else to look forwad to. From a practical point for these employees, is that it pays the mortgage, provides a family vacation to Disneyland, and sends the kids to college. Its going to be a tough go to not continue the flogging for which they were hired to perform. It is their livelihood.

But it is time for them to be layed off. Government is here to serve the public. They are not serving the public at large.

By: Gary D. Harris

Gary D. Harris — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:43:22 +0000

I think we should view the DEA agents who carry-out these raids, in the same light that America views the soldiers of the Nazi army after World War two. Captured Nazi’s often used the tired excuse “we were just following orders!”, when they were tried for crimes committed against humanity and their fellow countrymen. I would love to see activists that can get to these DEA crime scenes get photos of each rogue DEA agent who is committing these dispensary “Smash-and-Grab” attacks against our fellow Californians, and then post each agents photo on-line and tell all good Americans to “Keep your eyes open and watch for these criminal individuals moving around through your city”. Eventually, we could establish a database and learn who these agents are, where they live, and who their families are. Then we could make an attempt to negotiate with each agent on an individual basis, helping them to discover the error of their ways. Or at the very least, we could attempt to do the impossible and edumacate them…

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:14:07 +0000

Hey Sherri thats a great idea only lets go a couple steps farther and everyone everywhere should go to the local court house and have some kind of smoke-in. If thousands of people show up and light up on the court house steps what are “they the goverment” going to do to us “the people”. This would have to happen on all level’s of goverment. County, city, state, and fed’s. I smoke for arthritis and also chronic pain and it really does help but I can not smoke legaly as my state does not allow mmj.

By: PapaRon420

PapaRon420 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:29:57 +0000

Chris, you wrote a very concise letter to Istook. He was big, loud and rude. He noticeably pissed Ron Paul off at the end.

I think I should say that to agree with Tennessee Activist and Virginia Patriot is to agree with the Constitution itself. Why do we all think that the Constitution grants citizens guns for the purpose of creating a militia to fight enemies foreign and domestic? One of the big reasons that so many pot smokers and salesmen and dispensaries of pot get busted all the time is because we are notoriously mellow. We simply watch as our medicine, our equipment, cars, homes, businesses and freedom gets taken away.

The federal government will label you a traitor- an enemy combatant. We will have to commit our very lives to this change. It’s so sad that with all the dead from battles fought to gain our freedom that it’s now in America like it had been in Russia, parts of Europe and all the stuff we ran from to begin with – The very reasons we formed OUR nation. It only proves to me that all war is useless. We repeat the same ole’ mistakes again and again. History has proven that. I wonder when they’re going to introduce “The Goose Step” to our military.
This is the very first signs of the New World Order and their complete indifference to what “the people” want. We can start with total passive resistance. Remember Gandhi brought Britain to it’s knees without guns. How many unarmed innocent protestors can they kill with out the entire world calling for justice?

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:53:52 +0000

I think that on 4/20 all MMJ card holders in all states that it is legal should get busted and clog up the federal court system soooo bad that the Gov. would shit. Would Obama think that was funny. If it were legal where I live I would have a card and I would do all in my power to get busted

By: c

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:26:04 +0000

law enforcement would rather go after the easy fish, the dispensaries, then solve the real problem across the border, and obama and all of our statesmen and women are okay with it that’s why they keep feeding the public the same old scare tactic arguments like gateway theory and how dangerous mj is like meth. mj as a whole is an easy target. the merchants of other illegal drugs mean buisness, ever hear of a columbian neck tie. every hear of a weed dealer doing that to some one. no.
as i get older and see our civil liberties disappear im scared for the future of my son. even if you don’t smoke mj wich i don’t you have stake in it’s prohibition because eventually the lack of civil liberties will effect your freedom. the right to due process, the writ of habeas corpus, it seems when it comes to ca dispensaries these freedoms are suspended. how scary is this to the individual.

By: m

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:42:21 +0000

Just a FYI…

I formerly was treating myself with cannabis for a chronic, painful spinal condition for which there is basically little if any relief from standard medications. It worked quite effectively for pain relief, was anti-inflammatory, and suppressed the various spasms and twitches that accompany this condition.

Due to a complicated series of events, my supply of cannabis was shut down and I was forced by the state to do without my medicine. Eventually, I was able to find a thoughtful physician who wrote me a prescription for Marinol.

The result: Sure, Marinol helps with the pain, somewhat. It’s probably half as effective as cannabis. It costs 10 as much. Marinol does NOT help with the inflammation in my spine that aggravates my condition (and poses the issue of additional permanent nerve damage, including the possibility of paralysis.) Marinol also does not help with the spasms and twitches.

I presume the limitations of Marinol are because it lacks the other, vital but non-psychoactive components found in natural cannabis.

Thus, the DEA is basically WRONG about Marinol being an effective substitute for cannabis. At best, it is a very partial substitute that is far too expensive. The DEA is thus acting as a protection racket for the makers of Marinol. BTW, they just jacked the price up again by another $200/month.

Give me cannabis or give me paralysis…
Let’s hope not, but I really don’t like having no choice in the matter, forced on me by a bunch of ignorant asses at the DEA, who do a far better job at suppressing the rights of Americans to liberty and proper healthcare than they will ever do at killing the demand for this vital medicinal plant.

By: Alex K

Alex K — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:56:29 +0000

This is just so stupid. If I wanted to, I could be a caregiver, and earn 350,000 a year, doing basically…NOTHING…

Why can the Government not get that this is such a waste of our tax payer dollars, and they should be collecting the 350K a year, and start providing the medication to those of us that truly need it.

Its unfortunate that in a state where medical marijuana is legal, I feel very unsafe.

Obama laughs it off, just like Hilary laughed off Medical Marijuana, saying there are other options….such as OXYCONTIN, super addictive, and a kidney stone provider…

Thank you for the open mind…Not seeing the change some of us had hoped for.

Stop Raiding Caregivers.

The problem is, if they were not buying from licensed sellers, I understand that, however, who wants to get register with the government as a caregiver, if they are going after anyone distributing?….

Ridiculous.