Los Angeles District Attorney Vows to Assist Drug Cartels and Local Rapists
The Los Angeles Times reports today that L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley thinks California’s medical marijuana collectives are breaking state law. Cooley vowed to prosecute all the medical marijuana facilities in his county, estimated to have nearly 1,000 medical marijuana collectives. Cooley can say that these collectives are illegal all he wants, but that doesn’t make it true.
Last year, the state’s attorney general issued a legal opinion that clearly stated that “a properly organized and operated collective or cooperative that dispenses medical marijuana through a storefront may be lawful under California law.” Maybe Cooley didn’t get the memo.
If Cooley is somehow successful in eliminating L.A.’s medical marijuana facilities, the effect would be disastrous for patients forced to find their medicine in the underground market and would be a boon to the violent drug cartels that often supply that market. Voters in Los Angeles — who overwhelmingly support medical marijuana — are probably scratching their heads trying to figure out why their district attorney wants to enrich criminal drug dealers at the expense of patients.
Cooley’s priorities are dangerously misguided. Los Angeles County maintains a backlog of more than 3,000 untested rape kits (evidence collected from a sexual assault). This means that these rapes have been reported but are still not being investigated due to limited resources. I guess Cooley thinks law enforcement efforts would be better spent terrorizing seriously ill patients and the people who provide their legal medicine than solving violent crimes like sexual assault.
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Wow another state official out of his mind. I guess for every person that recognizes the needs for medicinal marijuana there’s at least 10 a-holes like this one that will do everything in their power to stop the momentum medicinal marijuana has gained over the last several years.
I dont live in Cali, but i hope everyone who does, rememberes this when they go to a voting both next election.
People like this should have never been appointed or elected to power, but it’s never too late to fix that.
Free The Weed. Free The People.
Maybe Walmart is applying for a Marijuana distributors licence as we speak in advance of the California ballot initiative for Nov 2010 and using it’s lobying might to squeeze all the mom and pop establishments ahead of time due to the inevitability of the reform law passing.
would it surprise you?
It just seems that ever since the inititive was alowed to be a line item on the Nov 2010 ballot the state and local law gustapo has ratcheted up the propaganda and just blatant attack on The Movement. I see it as a last ditch effort of a scared faction.
…or the Walmart conspiracy, take your pick.
Really do hope the people of California put this guy in his proper place. Does anyone know if a REAL lawyer has contacted L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley?
And the other question would be who’s above this guy, that’s the one that didn’t get the memo either. I hope heads roll in the DA’s office.
On a lighter note: The latest episode of Fringe on Fox. The scientist Walter told a police officer that marijuana helps you sleep. AND … they did an experiment with LSD. All positive spin.
I was so happy and you should be too, we’re making progress.
Television programs and MSM will break this 70 plus year lie in half and we will win.
If you’re so inclined, write to the Producers of Fringe and thank them. I’d suggest short and to the point emails.
One thing this world aint short on , is dumb asses
Cooley, has got to be the dumbest of the dumb asses
People like Cooley should die.
well folks, you know the drill…… lets stuff his inbox webmail@da.lacounty.gov you can also use the feedback section on his webpage http://da.co.la.ca.us/feedback.htm#feedback lets TRY to educate this ignorant prick
Boy OhBoy ! What will these idiots do with them selves when you californians legalize cannabis. Oh I bet they cry them selves to sleep worring about all the drug crazed people running around smokin the devil weed. I hope they bolt and nail thier doors shut, never to see the light of day! Oh the insanity! poor poor drug warrior prohibis,their world will never be the same……LOL like we care or need them or their version of the world. Oh I think I feel a tear forming for them…opps ! nope that was just from laughing.
Pot smokers are an abundant and easily harvested resource. In these dire financial times California must avoid the distraction of violent crime. Prisons need filling and lawyers need literally “captive customers.”
This is simply backlash for all the growing support for medical and recreational use of marijuana. They see their Prohibitiion failing, they see activists getting louder and they are seeing a growing public awarness about marijuana in general. They are crapping themselves because of it.
Simply put they are scared, they know its all comming to an end. This is a last dich effort of a minor few, Cavemen as I call them, there will be more Cavemen and more backlash as this movment spreads across the nation, but we have to keep fighting. Just like real Cavemen they will have to evolve or they will die out.
Keep the fight going never think for a second we can let off or stop being active, its going to take every single supporter to keep the heat on these guys and keep the issue alive and people talking about it. We are doing it, we are going to win this War and soon.
This D.A. is ruining his future. Next election there will be a new Gov. in Cal. The mayor of Frisco is runnning for the office of Gov. and his platform is to tax and regulate the sale of cannabis. If Arnold wants to stay in office he may want to agree and say so in public, soon. The legalization of cannabis will only boost the economy and keep billions of dollers in the hands of Americans instead of the drug cartels. There is so many benefits to legalize and the time is comming when elections will be won by the pro cannabis voters. We one day will out number all other voters groups. Keep tokin and overgrow big bro.
Well Clarence, Arnold cant return as governor…. term limits…. which is perfectly fine because he doesnt want to legalize anyways…. he keeps on saying “we need to study other countries that have legalized” and “we need a serious debate” when studies have already been done and debates have been going on for years….. just a stall tactic
Sorry, I don’t live in Cal. but if I did Frisco’s Mayor has my vote.
I suppose the Mexican drug cartels paid for this DA election war chest and now he has to pay back.
DA Cooley is the kind of prohibitionist you want to spout off like this.
he has brought the marijuana prohibition message to the forefront. albeit a stupid one, but those are the types of opinions we NEED voiced by these idiots.
as long as we can beat them down.
perhaps, before Cooley is able to act upon his urges, this radical idea will be ripped to shreds.
he wants to turn his county into a ‘dry’ county. yet, his efforts might just push the FEDERAL government to finally reshedule marijuana/HEMP.
the federal policy is messing with the states. erase the federal restrictions, and then it’ll be up to states, then counties.
i think a pretty famous sour mash whiskey is mass produced in a ‘dry’ county.
i could see marijuana in a similar situation some day.
Cooley was just on KABC 780AM in LA saying a lot of the same: the marijuana sold by collectives has 1500 times what a safe insecticide level is considered, it’s grown by drug cartels in Mexico and it’s destroying communities.
He’s citing a law stating that over the counter sales of marijuana for profit are illegal and seemed to suggest that the non-profit co-op model is less offensive. When an advocate’s argument was brought up, Cooley said he would deal with it in court.
He also mentioned “voluntary closings” of dispensaries that, with his announcement, will recognize that they are illegal and close.
I believe there needs to be some regulation and a business license issued, taxes paid, etc. but this is the result of the LA City Council being asleep at the wheel for two years after their moratorium in 2007. From what I understand, the LA City Council left a “hardship clause” in place and never reviewed any applications to open dispensaries from 2007 to August 2009 – they rejected 85 applications.
That’s how we ended up with 800 plus dispensaries.
I hope some of the arguments I see here, like county law vs. state law vs. fed law might push the issue towards legalization. Cooley is going to waste a lot of tax payer money fixing a problem created by the LA City Council, also tax payer funded.
I just hope we don’t need any tax dollars to pay for celebrity funerals.
California elect Frisco’s Mayor on the next election!!! This is the only way we gonna be able to do this. Fuck Arnold he is talking out of his ass….
I’d buy pot at wal-mart….
Mr. Smith, I don’t think that your tone, especially in the title, is conducive to MPP’s ideals. That sort of speech that only has a tinge of truth if you connect enough dots sounds like something Calvina Fay would say. I don’t doubt that there are some dispensaries and or collectives that get a little excited being able to legally grow and dispense cannabis and over step their lawful abilities. I mean it would be hard to not grow just one more plant or smoke some for yourself or just sell a little to pay the rent, etc. Don’t want to sound like someone that is against MPP or medical MJ, but if the rules are not followed to the ‘t’ there will only be more instances of medical MJ neglect to encourage that to be taken away, and medical MJ is the only foot we are standing on right now.
webmail@da.lacounty.gov
Here is their email address. Write them and tell them why this is a bad idea. Don’t be mean. Keep it clean. But let them know ! Thanks !
This fools name should be steve uncooley. he is just the type of professional politician that term limits were made for. its jerks like this that talk out of side of there mouth, say anything to get elected,climb into bed with anyone who has the money to further his own ends .even an uncool fool like uncooley simply because of his age has had personal experience with pot , medical or otherwise he has a friend (assuming he has a friend) or family member (probably mom) or perhaps a turn at the bong himself (although I’m sure he didn’t do it right since he seems to blow everything out his ass)in any case if this guy can’t see for himself that wasting his valuable time and our tax payer money putting law abiding adults in JAIL for using a substance that has never killed or harmed anyone(if you believe the AMA or JAMA that is )than it should be clear to the rest of us he not smart enough to do his job .The truth is I agree with Uncooley that weed is not a medical issue, its a civil rights issue. And I for one am tired of being treated like a criminal by con-men like this who should be protecting us,instead of playing his fiddle while our city burns.
P.S. please forgive any mistakes in spelling, I’ve been smoking pot .
The laws against marijuana are illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, and un-Biblical. I’ve often referred to those prohibitionists trying to get us to flagrantly violate the truth this plant is on our planet for a very good reason as belonging to a religion, the Religion (of Hate) Against Marijuana.
MPP, NORML, LEAP, etc… are not standing on one foot. They have dug deeply and are standing on both feet, on the truth: marijuana is medicine, marijuana is safer than alcohol, marijuana does not deserve to be illegally, immorally, unconstitutionally, and un-Biblically called illegal.
How much better would the world (and U.S.) be if these unnatural laws of prohibition were gone? To begin, we would not be wasting over $100 billion per year fighting these dumb wars, sending kids to their deaths, incarcerating people who do not deserve to be locked up, people could have access to an all-natural medicine at an un-inflated price, and like Aaron points out, cops could actually work to locate people who prey on society.
Here is a brief write-up with links to a Human Rights Watch report. Also, according to Kathleen Parker (link in above post), there’s more like 400,000 “rape kits” sitting around untested in the U.S. Insane!
You can also watch an episode of NOW where they focus on the California aspect of this story at the site too.
Ben, I’m all for towing the line as a team-player, and I have no inside info into MPP’s strategies. But I think the reason it’s taken so long to end this madness is that “we” have been playing with kid gloves, while the prohibitionists have been using batons, guns, prisons, evil “laws,” and lies.
According to the article that Aaron links to, about LA cutting their backlog in half. They still note that it won’t be until the middle of 2011 when the finally catch up! “Gee ma’am, I hope you don’t mind waiting another 2 years while your rapist runs free.” We need to end this prohibition NOW so we can put our resources to good use instead of flushing them down the toilet! Yes, prohibition is A COMPLETE WASTE!
Personally I say smash California’s debt to pieces by ending this un-Godly prohibition against Marijuana (and other plants). Use the money wisely instead.
I totally agree with Aaron’s characterization (and others’) that their priorities are misguided and (too) many in law enforcement go after easy targets. Ironically this makes them just like the rapists.
Why spend all sorts of time and effort hunting down rapists when there are people in wheel chairs other easy pickin’s? Don’t rapists generally go after easy victims than chicks who look like they know karate or will knee them in the nuts?
Ben and Drew: Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I admit that the nature of my title is a little sensational. However, it is true.
Just one day before D.A. Cooley made his announcement, the a front-page story in the Washington Post explained that domestic marijuana producers — including medical marijuana — are cutting into the profits of dangerous Mexican drug cartels. It’s absolutely insane for the D.A. to try to reverse that trend by handing L.A.’s huge medical marijuana market over to criminals.
And, as for helping rapists, it is clear that law enforcement everywhere is operating on a tight, finite budget. Any time spent busting marijuana consumers or medical marijuana facilities is time that could be spent elsewhere. For example, the FBI reports that in 2007, more than 66,000 violent crimes were reported in California but went unsolved. I can’t help but wonder how much smaller that number would be if we didn’t arrest 74,000 people for marijuana (mostly possession) that same year.
All I can say at this point in time, especially after hearing Nobel Peace Prize for the Prez today is:
In-F–king-Sane =Insane.
These people are insane, irresponsible, and will be held accountable for their ill-thought out actions.
Time to turn up the heat MPP, in whatever way possible. REAL Peace would be ending the persecution of innocent non-violent citizens AND complete Legalization of Marijuana.
the L.A. District Attorney’s office is an elected position every four years, just vote him out.
ok here we go, you are all going to be shocked with this one…
i was watching the news and the health stories came on…. well they were talking about giving kids an alcohol allowance…. i couldnt believe it… i did a quick search online and found this…
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.16955bbbf37996b1a27427193eb82f3f.311&show_article=1
“What kind of message will we be sending children” hmmm
To #2/3
Wow. You bring up a totally screwed up, yet valid possibility. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if wal-mart pulled a stunt like that…I still would avoid shopping there at all cost. Its expensive, but I get enough joy buying as much as I can from small vendors.
again, Thank God there’s no real crime to chase so our tax $ and police force can concentrate on a few potheads.You know, cause they’re so dangerous and all.
When will you guys understand that they do not care about your thoughts? I think now is the time to strike. Yeah, you know, the revolution? I, along with 3 million “Racists” in this country believe that Obama is a failure, and that the government needs to be overthrown. I am tired of being ridiculed for my morals and beliefs. I am not a racist man, I am raising a daughter from a black man who treated his wife poorly and cheated on her. He takes advantage of the system and is on Disability. Obama, you are pushing your limits dude, and I dont think you have the balls to say differently. All you want to do is get single payer health care, and fuck the rest of the issues. You laugh at us. Will you laugh at millions of us when we are standing in front of your house steps?????
To JJ #28 This isn’t about race, Black , White , Green and Red. It’s about your right to enjoy a natural substance.
yea jj gotta calm down there…. maybe lay off the news for awhile…. or at least fox news…..
JJ: your female? I understand your passion and your anger, however, there comes a time in life when we must try to get our anger under control.
I grew up in a very angry home environment and have spent years getting past it all.
Too bad Cooley didn’t sleep with an assistant or something, seems like the only way to get dumbasses out of government these days.
Who’s down to hire some “escorts”?
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.” – Albert Einstein
Ah, those people are just so %^&*ed up. They must be doing it for political reasons, i.e. selfish efforts to grandstand and promote their own careers. The only reason they can do it is because MM’s legal standing is precarious and vulnerable. They clearly don’t care a single iota for freedom or justice.
One might even say they are typical lawyers. The law is in fact so arbitrary and so often unjust, that people who really do care for those values tend to be automatically selected out of the profession. All are highly trained to game the law, to the advantage of whomever pays best, or for themselves. These guys want to make a big splash claiming to be tough on crime, the problem being that MM dispensaries hardly qualify as dangerous crime, or any crime at all beyond regulatory technicalities. Why aren’t they going after real crime? These guys are like extortionists: “toe our line, however absurd, or go to jail.” They make me sick.
I would feel differently if they were actually doing some good. But actually, all they are doing is attacking something good and decent, purely for their own personal benefit, and to hell with whomever gets hurt. They are SUCH a much more harmful element in our society that any dope smoker ever was.
In the mean time, we must not forget, the county will pay for 1000 unjust and difficult prosecutions? That alone will cost 10s if not 100s of millions of dollars. Who out there thinks we need that?
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they concocted this assault plan over a stack of drinks or beers.
Nope, not at all.
I think this is a good thing, Theres no way anyone is going to stop medical canabis, however there efforts to stop it will help us in the end. We have the state law covered, but the federal law is still in are way. There is no need for them to change the federal law unless they are forced to.
The act of dumb people seeing the need to arrest us under federal law for using cannabis will, in the end, force the hands of lawmakers to change to federal law.
If no one is arrested under federal laws then there would be no need to change them.
IM A MAN…..NOT A WOMAN. and for my anger, you guys are able to smoke pot, I have to take lexapro, xanex, percocet, topomax, and others. So you dont know the half of it. And it may not always be about race, but they are calling us all racists since we dont believe in what Obama is doing to us.
and if you think that a revolution is not about to happen….come to missouri, arkansas, iowa…all the people i know are talking about it….its about our rights…not just pot legalization…get a clue
JJ… you REALLY need to smoke some bud…
maybe not… your already dillusional…
But, please take your meds and sell your guns…
JJ…
what exactly IS Obama doing to you…
what rights is he messing with…
There will be no revolution, the few crackers having fits over the lies spewed by the right wing talk show pricks will only cause martial law and finally all their guns taken away… so please start something…
lol…..what rights? let me see…raising taxes…he will wage war with Iran….(you all bitched when Bush did it with Iraq but Obama its cool with) and if 80% of Americans dont want this health care shit then WHY is Congress pushing it to get passed. Oh then the fact that he lied about medical MJ during his campaign…that really affects me. So you can call me a cracker all you want….my rights have been affected….and sooon yours will too…if they havent been already….so get a clue.
and all you liberals that think our guns will get taken away…you really need to understand amendment 2….it will not happen….when my father joined the Army to fight for this low life country, he took an oath to protect this country against enemies both foriegn and domestic. Obama will not stop this war on drugs and you guys think that “violence” is not the way, but wait til they push one of your friends out of his wheel chair and throw him into a cop car cause of Medical MJ….then lets see who is bitching….everything Congress is doing right now is against the popular vote in the country…and it will not stand…you bitched about Bush’s mess ups and praise Obama, even gave him a nobel prize, but all he has done is blow smoke up your asses.
Just watch…states rights have already been declared to supercede federal laws, ring a bell? Civil war…..gee..but im a dumb ass cracker…..who raises a half black step daughter cuz her low life father wont (who is black) and he lives off the government….so I pay my taxes, and I am a great member of society. So keep on pushin….marshall law…lol…….
LMAO
After the President won the Nobel Peace Prize he tweeted: “Humbled”… I was able to immediately respond now that I have set up a twitter account to let him know he show declare PEACE on marijuana users…. Yesterday he asked for help setting up call parties to fight for Healthcare reform (he wants to generate 100,000 calls to congress)… I asked if I could set one up to help fight for REFORM in our Marijuana laws…
I haven’t heard back on either tweet, and frankly don’t expect to. However, if he received more responses every time he (or his staffers) tweeted, he would see the support for the issue. IF you haven’t done so already… go set yourself up with a twitter account and put a regular bug in our government’s ear!!!
Follow me too: @DarthNole
also, I really hope that I am wrong. I dont want my child to see a war. I dont want my child to see any violence, hell, I live in BFE where white trash flaunt the rebel flag every where and I dont bother anyone unless they bother me. I just want to smoke pot in the comfort of my own home, use my guns to shoot deer, rabbits, and squirrel to provide for my family. I make 30,000 a year and wish I could live paycheck to paycheck, but the weeks seem to take longer and the money goes away faster. I voted for Obama. He said he would allow states to have medical MJ laws. He said he would end the violence in the middle east. He said a lot of things. All I am saying is why are people not holding this man to his words? You expected truths. I expected freedoms. I got spit on. And Yeah, Im pissed. So sorry about the explosiveness. But I am in a corner. and I dont likke it.
First did not raise taxes, second is doing everything possible to not go to war with Iran, Bush went to war with a country that did not attack us and had nothing to do with 9/11, and more than 50% want health care reform which if we don’t do will do more to bankrupt this country than just about anything, he has been in office 9 months and everyone wants their own personal agenda to be taken care of immediately, it takes time to fix all of BUSH’s distruction of this country and damage to international standing… I’ve been smokin 45 years illegally waiting for the day, but understand things are finally coming to a head… as far as martial law, believe it, FEMA has very serious plans if there is civil unrest, including detention camps… alot of people are in dire straits, but this is not Obama’s fault and he cannot fix the world with a wave of the hand, but atleast he is trying….
Someone will stop him. I heard that the This is in resonse to DarthNole. I did hear they set a number up with a recording. I dialed and voted. The number is 973.409.3274.
I know this number comes from New Jersey. I just know I dialed and voted. According to the 3 minute commercial, “The Obama Administration has set up this hot line to get 1 million votes for legalization of Marijuana. Then if you vote you press # key.
I don’t know if this is real or not. I just know I was probably a dumbass so I voted anyway.
yeah….sounds like the Hitler administration….detention camps? lol….holocost….anyone that kills american citizens is a traitor to this country. Maybe Obama will turn this country around, but I dont think so. And yeah, people want health care reform, but we dont want single payer health care and ther public option. Its very simple. Like I said b4, one spark and it will start the fire. You can believe what you want. And I will believe what I want. Thats what makes this country go round. Enjoy your “freedom” and we will see where Obama is in the year 2012.
and didnt raise taxes? lol…sure…for who? people that make over 250,000? cuz I know I am paying more taxes. well…actually now that I think of this, maybe its not obama, probably congress…and the people that have their hands shoved up Obama’s ass and controling him like a puppet….all I know is I want to be free…thats all….and I dont feel free anymore…I feel opressed and dishonored.
and FEMA…lol…they cant even handle Katrina victims so I dont think they will be a threat. But like I said b4. I dont bother anyone til they bother me directly. I will protect my family, rights, and liberties. That is what I am granted to do under the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and many other documents written by the founding fathers of this country.
#36 – JJ – “IM A MAN…..NOT A WOMAN. and for my anger, you guys are able to smoke pot”. – It was an innocent question and you took it the wrong way, sorry if I hurt your feelings. – As far as smoking pot JJ, I Do Not. I want to just like you and I Do need Medical MJ and live in a state that has no Medical MJ. – JJ: I know I’ve written here before, probably several times, that I don’t smoke because I don’t want to go to jail or lose money and/or property over our corrupt laws.
#40 – “and if 80% of Americans dont want this health care shit then WHY is Congress pushing it to get passed”. – It’s now my belief that Republicans are purposefully trying to destroy Obummer’s reputation through this Health Care debacle.
And I’m Republican who strives to stay on an even keel and ALWAYS consider what another person wants or needs.
#42 – Thanks DarthNole, way to go, that thought had entered my mind too however I don’t have a cell phone yet.
The Marijuana Reform Movement is like a giant snowball now and we’re not going to stop.
Call COOLEY and COMPLAIN: (213) 974-3512
Most likely you will get an unnamed female that will direct you elsewhere as if you are a mere fly! Oh the nerve of these people!
Dear JJ,
Turn of Glenn Beck & Rush for a couple days and let the adrenaline settle down. Then go here and http://www.politifact.com and read some un-biased news.
#41 “when my father joined the army to fight for this low life country” , what is that all about?
#47 I think that you are feeling oppressed and dishonered because you want a fight, and you have convinced yourself that you are being oppressed. RELAX. You make 30K a year? Is a computer and internet service a necessity for your household?
You and the Glenn Beck nation won’t revolt, it’s talk. Seriously. It sounds good coming out of Rush and Beck’s mouths, it gets people fired up, good for all of you to be so involved and emotional. But what you don’t see is that all they are doing is getting you to hate Democrats so they will win the next election, politics are politics and Beck & Rush are just working their way up the chain with all their rhetoric. TURN OFF FOX NEWS and read some legit un-biased stuff, if you still feel the same way then stock up on food, water, ammo, guns, infowars, build a shelter, and you can be the next commander in chief that makes all the wrong decisions in the eyes of your opponents.
TURN OFF FOX NEWS and read some legit un-biased stuff! LOL ! Like what exactly? NBC? CBS? CNN? For God’s sake there is no unbiased news. It’s all either slanted right(Fox) or slanted left(everyone else). The best you can hope for is listen to a little of both and try to uncover some form of truth out of the 2 views.
unbiased !!! LoL that’s priceless…or maybe naive.
District Attorney’s Office
County of Los Angeles
210 West Temple Street, Suite 18000
Los Angeles, CA 90012-3210
Dear District Attorney Cooley,
I am highly disappointed and extremely dismayed at your immorally misplaced priorities!
As you know, the city of Los Angeles has a backlog of over 3,000 untested rape kits and is facing myriad law enforcement and budgetary cuts, as well as overflowing prisons! Yet you put medicinal marijuana at the forefront of eradication and enforcement. Why?
Can you explain the methodology, which allows you to utilize tax payer funds in such an egregious and inappropriate manner?
I look forward to a reasonable response based on scientific evidence and rational thought.
Regards,
Ben #52 – Fox News isn’t all that bad. We all have to take our delivered news, on whatever channel with a grain of salt, sift through the false and the truth and come to our own conclusion.
With that said, I’m not a Rush fan nor a Beck fan. Beck has come up with some very interesting and thought provoking shows though, and no I don’t watch him every day. Rush is a tad bit too aggressive for me and I don’t care for the sound of his voice so the only time I hear him is when someone else is interviewing him.
I went to that site you posted and while it’s interesting, after a quick review, I didn’t run across anything that addressed the war on drugs. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction at that site. If there’s nothing there covering Obummer’s position on this ridiculous war on drugs, particularly marijuana, then I have no use for it.
It has come to a point in my life where 99% of my acquaintances that don’t support the end of Prohibition are no longer valid or important. I’ve little time for them and their stupidity.
Way to go lo9an, keep his feet to the fire for as long as you can stomach it.
I dont watch the news. I read my books and I listen to people in my area that are talking about revolutions. Our freedom is at stake and the government is killing American citizens. But dont worry, I am sure they will take pity on you. Once they stop civil disobedience on gun control, what will be next? They will make you pay for your gardens, make you pay taxes on your pets? Big Brother is here folks, whether you wanna admit to it or not. As for I, I will move to another country if I need to.
As for the statement about my dad joining the army in Vietnam, he sits in amazement at what this country has become. What would George Washington, Thomas Adams, and the rest of our founding fathers think of this country? They left English territories because they were being opressed, taxed without representation, and religious freedoms. I always say that history repeats itself. I just hope I am wrong because I dont want to fight. I wanna just work my 40 hour work week, smoke my weed when I want to in my own home, and retire cruising around the country in an RV. Not much to ask. But I dont know if there will be a country to cruise. Hell, I dont even know if Ill be able to afford an RV. And yes a computer and internet is a nessessity in my house. I have a 14 yr old that has computer classes and she has to research topics for schoool. But believe me, I drive a 1983 car and I have no spending money left from week to week. This is cause I want to give my step daughter things that I didnt have. SO I am sorry about the rants, but I just dont see why I, a very productive member of society, just cannot be free. I dont hurt anyone. Hell, Ive never even been in a fist fight.
JJ: I came here just to see if you had commented. If you hadn’t I was going to say ‘hi JJ’ and that I really do understand. It’s obvious that you love the real American and it’s obvious that you’re a compassionate person.
We all rant, just remember that you do have friends here.
I too am a productive member of society and it hurts my heart that the g’ment has become so corrupt.
So let’s focus our attention on righting the wrong of Prohibition and deal with the other sheyit when it happens. Is that doable?
And JJ: I can well understand your dilemma with all the meds you’re forced to take because of Prohibition. I cannot take pharmaceuticals, they make me throw up. The only one I can barely tolerate is Allegra, a prescription allergy medicine, and I have to be careful to remember that even it affects me in an adverse manner. That adverse manner is: It makes me angry. So I rarely take it, and when I do I have to remind myself what it does to me.
Peace………………
The actions of the LA DA will get the courts involved, which will help to sort out the law-abiding operations from the merely opportunistic. Collectives (and other operations?) that follow the California law will probably come out looking fine, and the non-legal profiteers will probably be put out of business. In the long run, this will help clarify the law and make it more difficult for prohibitionists go after the legitimate operations.
One step at a time, little by little.
Why are pharmacies (which also provide meds to sick people) NOT forced to work as non-profit dispesaries ? Why only the med cannabis? I say put med cannabis in pharmacies and treat it as every other medicine or stop the gouging by pharmaceutical companies by making them operate under the same rules as the cannabis dispensaries.
oops! guess I got a little off topic in that last post. “Los Angeles District Attorney Vows to Assist Drug Cartels and Local Rapists” goes a little far don’t you think? That isn’t what the DA actually said, and you know it. That may be the result, but dishonesty and misrepresentation will NOT win the war on drugs. truth on the other hand can and eventually will.
hi guys, just wantd to post this document.
http://vidreel.com/video/NTc2ODU5/
this is a really good document, and it shows you the true colors of our goverment. Please Watch nd enjoy =)
sorry i forgot to post the name of the document, its calld… CampFEMA : AMERICAN LOCKDOWN
Want to see a great flick ? It’s extremely informative and a great watch. If we could get this on HBO, Showtime, Fox, CBS, NBC ….. it would do a world of good in educating the public and the politicians. In fact, it should scare the politicians. Check it out, it’s called “The Union, Business behind getting high”
Scott
scott #64, you can watch that doc. online at google vids…. also they have American Drug War: The Last White Hope….. most cannabis documentaries are available for free online…. Waiting to Inhale, Run From the Cure etc. they are all online so find them, spread them!
also scott, you should buyJack Herer’s book The Emperor Wears No Clothes….. if money is tight you can read it for free online http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html
Also you should get the book Marijuana is Safer
JJ is right about one thing. There ARE a lot of pissed off people out here. How many of you lost most your 401k and job because of GOVERNMENT bullshit? Yes they knew this housing shit was going to happen. And how much more money are they going to suck out of our sorry asses in the form of various taxes or things like Cap and Trade…or should I say cap and tax. How long can we keep paying CHINA 500million a day just in interset alone? The list goes on. So yes ..people are pissed. Yes there is a revolution happening…..a quiet one thank god. JJ calm down dude. Violence isnt needed. Just let the truth do its job. The people will follow. This didnt start with Obama. He has an opportunity to do whats right. If he dont…thats his fault.
Now Back to this fight. Oh ya the prohibs….Just let the truth do its job…the people will follow…right?
It may seem dark J.J. but its not all bad.
Dan-O #60:
I like that idea. Stop this outragous price gouging crap. That could deffintly help reduce the cost of health care.
Just Legalize It, Thanks. I actually watched the union on netflix but will definately check out the others you reccomend.
Scott
Don’t agree guys that Pharmacies should have control of Medical Marijuana. They’d ruin it, absolutely ruin it.
We need to keep the dispensaries as close to free spirit as we can. And not for profit doesn’t mean there’s no profit.
Where theres money,theres corruption and fraud. Make it legal for all to have and grow. Of course there will be those who will seek to control any cannabis maket ,legal or not, because of money. This world is corrupt. All people can think about is money and power.
Someone needs to follow this Cooley and film him using his vices. Put it on the net and presto, no more Cooley. Does he receive donations from Walgreen or CVS? He might need to get laid. When it gets backed up in your throat well its been to long.
Obama needs to be asked, ” Hoe long should a brother or sister who uses the Creators gift cannabis be locked in a cage”? If he has no answer then legalization should happen that moment. He would not show up just like in El Paso because he wants to continue the drug war on America just like the Bush. Obama is another Bush when it comes to freedom for American cannabis users.
I say Fire him and put someone in his place. Well that should tell you something Our Government is NOT for the people nor is it BY THE PEOPLE. It is for the government and by the government Plain and simple !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I keep hearing about all the crime that will be taken care of “after they stop wasting all their time busting cannabis consumers” Personally, I believe that a lot of drug warriors will look for other work after prohibition ends. The very reason that they’re in those jobs is that it is so EASY and SAFE. When life gets too real for these losers they will show theur true stripes and BAIL
Looks like LA County is going to pick up where the Obama administration left off. A win-win for government, Obama admin adheres to its campaign promise of stopping “FEDERAL” raids and LA County with a little extra “War on Drugs” money I’d bet, gets help with it’s budget shortfall.
As for the rape kit backlog, my take is that the Federal Government, using the “War on Drugs” money, helps finance the LA County Narcotics department as long as the County keeps arresting marijuana users at a high rate. The Sexual Crimes department most likely receives its funding from the State which we all know doesn’t have enough to balance it’s own budget. The Federal Gov’t sees the War on Drugs as a bigger problem than rape because there is no rape victim lobbyists that have any money to speak of unlike all the lobbyists for the “War on Drugs” industry. When the daughters and wives of the politicians begin to get raped, those kits will be flying off the shelves.
All this shit about the laws. People are going to smoke no matter what, weed will never stop. LIVIN. If we let the g ment run it the price will go up. We, the consumer can barely afford it now..
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