Posted on 02/06/2016 9:51:27 AM PST by grundle
Campaign promises
In May 2008, Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt said that Obama would end DEA raids on medical marijuana in states where it's legal.
Also in 2008, Obama said that he supported the "basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs" and that he was "not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws."
Federal raids against medical marijuana in states where it's legal
Despite Obama’s campaign promise, in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch in Colorado, a state where medical marijuana is legal.
Also in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Culver City in California, a state where medical marijuana is legal.
In July 2010, the DEA raided at least four medical marijuana growers in San Diego, California.
Also in July 2010, the DEA raided a medical marijuana facility in Covelo, California.
Then in September 2010, the DEA conducted raids on at least five medical marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada, where medical marijuana is legal.
In 2011, the DEA conducted raids on medical marijuana in Seattle, Washington, West Hollywood, California, and Helena, Montana, all places where it is legal.
In April 2012, the DEA carried out several raids on medical marijuana in Oakland, California.
Also in April 2012, federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, an educational institution in Oakland, CA, which teaches people about medical marijuana.
Furthermore in April 2012, federal agents raided a medical marijuana facility which had been serving 1,500 patients near Lake Elsinore, CA.
In July 2012, federal prosecutors filed civil forfeiture actions against Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, CA, which claims to be the world's largest, and which claims to serve more than 100,000 medical marijuana patients.
During the first seven months of 2012, the DEA shut down 40 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, all of which had been operating in compliance with state and local law.
In April 2013, the DEA raided four medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, California.
Also in April 2013, the DEA raided a medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego, California.
In July 2013, the DEA conducted multiple medical marijuana raids in Washington state, including the cities of Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle.
In August 2013, the DEA raided People's Choice Alternative Medicine, a medical marijuana facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In October 2013, the DEA raided 28 medical marijuana facilities in Michigan. In November 2013, the DEA raided 12 medical marijuana facilities in Denver, Colorado.
In April 2014, the DEA raided four medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver, Colorado.
In October 2014, the DEA raided two medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, California.
Threats against doctors
In June 2014, DEA agents visited the homes and offices of doctors in Massachusetts who had written prescriptions for medical marijuana, and threatened to confiscate their federal licenses to prescribe certain medications if they did not stop writing prescriptions for medical marijuana.
Threats against landlords
In June 2012, the Obama administration filed asset-forfeiture lawsuits against two landlords who rented their buildings to medical marijuana stores in Santa Fe Springs, CA. At the same time, the Obama administration also sent warning letters which threatened similar legal action to dozens of other, nearby landlords.
Criticism from the political left
In February 2012, Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Obama's war against medical marijuana went "far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush."
In April 2012, Mother Jones magazine wrote: "The president campaigned on the promise that he'd stop federal raids on medical marijuana operations that were in compliance with state laws, a vow that Attorney General Eric Holder repeated after the election. But then the Obama administration raided more than 100 dispensaries in its first three years and is now poised to outpace the Bush administration's crackdown record."
In a May 2012 opinion column published by the Washington Post, Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, wrote, "Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history."
In May 2012, U.S. Congressperson Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said she had "strong concerns" about Obama's forced closure of five medical marijuana facilities in Pelosi's congressional district.
In April 2012, commenting on Obama's crackdown on medical marijuana, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) said, "I'm very disappointed... They look more like the Bush administration than the Clinton administration."
Obama's own illegal use of recreational marijuana has never been prosecuted
In May 2012, ABC News reported that during Obama's youth, he often smoked large quantities of recreational marijuana. Obama's marijuana smoking wasn't even medical - it was recreational. And yet now, he is taking large scale, widespread action to prevent people with AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, and other illnesses, who have prescriptions from their doctors, from using their prescription medicine. How cold hearted, as well as hypocritical, can a person be?
What will you compile lists about after Obama is gone?
Marijuana is still classified as a Class 1 drug. Cocaine and Meth are Class 2. This means that not even pharmaceutical companies can perform tests on marijuana. From what I’ve heard from MDs there are benefits, but the medical industry doesn’t want it explored.
I don’t smoke it or have a stake in it one way or the other. It’s like Trump, if tptb are against it, there must be something there.
Obama chooses to enforce only those laws he wants enforced. Why does he want marijuana laws enforced? For the drug companies, or the Cartel?
In OH, it was an amazing unpredicted example of herd intelligence when that legalization bill was voted down. Users actually caught on that verifiying that an individuals marijuana was okay within the law meant a whole lot of loss of privacy and yet another government-approved monopoly ripping folks off with the state getting its take.
So now concerned legislators (oxymoron?) want to investigate a compassionate medical marijuana law.
Here's my concern. There's a horrific heroin epidemic; everybody knows someone who lost someone to overdose. Most of them had either as a gateway drug or an intermediate step a prescription pain killer. So why is it a good idea to let the medical community prescribe another gateway drug? How will it not become a first step toward addiction to more powerful legal stuff if the medical community is involved and "it's covered"?
These new strains of pot are too strong and are turning people psychotic. It used to be just stupid and lazy but turning them pyscho is too far.
Come to think of it, all these mass shootings are probably pot heads that went psycho smoking skunk.
Maybe both. We know heroin is coming out of Afghanistan and some of it is coming through Mexico. Some of it comes out of Afghanistan and goes to the pharmaceutical companies. Don't know how it works, but the it would make sense that there is a middleman (cia?).
The reason Obama is doing is probably because it’s cutting into the kickback money that the cartels give ALL good Democrats and crooked Republicans.
I pick the Mexican Cartel! Do I win a prize?
You?
FMCDH(BITS)
Obama’s war against Medical Marijuana
1.Allows stoner states to sell non-approved drug by the FDA to be sold to the public.
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Those are good questions. There are tradeoffs. We have to weigh the good against the bad.
So who do you want deciding that, fedgov?
Doesn't anyone remember the Tenth Amendment anymore?
(sigh) FYI =>
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Hypothetical: A lot of folks who don't support gun control say it's okay for prohibiting those with psych issues to not be allowed to have a gun. What's to stop the gov from deciding everyone who uses marijuana can't have a gun?
Think about it. Legalization means taxation and registry of use. That's progress??
Where have you been? Fedgov decided just that decades ago. If you respect the Constitution, you tell Fedgov to FO and support the Second and Tenth Amendments.
Think about it. Legalization means taxation and registry of use. That's progress??
If the state is the one regulating, yes. That's how federalism is supposed to work. Do you not think the Tenth Amendment should be supported from unconstitutional fedgov intrusions?
As far as folks who get caught and charged with possession of marijuana? Is that really the only offensive thing they're doing if they're cited?
The "gateway theory" of marijuana is nonscientific nonsense - very few of those who use pot go on to use harder drugs. Users of harder drugs often used marijuana first ... because they wanted to drug themselves, and marijuana was more prevalent. The same bogus number-juggling that paints marijuana as a "gateway drug" also paints alcohol and tobacco as "gateway drugs"; should we ban those too?
Rubbish - stronger pot means only fewer puffs to get high. A user might get caught off-guard by unexpectedly strong pot ... which is another argument in favor of legalization: only a legal product can successfully be regulated for potency.
I'll neither agree nor disagree since I don't use marijuana. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if marijuana becomes a prescription drug, many of the doctors prescribing it will use it as a gateway and it won't be long before many of those folks will be put on prescription painkillers. For many people who become heroin addicts, they say the "gateway" was legal and prescribed pain killers. Legalization will bring these folks to those doctors.
And what about folks who get caught with marijuana but don't have a prescription? Won't the penalty be severe?
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