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DEA to halt medical marijuana raids
MSNBC ^ | 02/27/09 | Alex Johnson

Posted on 02/27/2009 6:18:36 PM PST by Big_Monkey

Supporters of programs to provide legal marijuana to patients with painful medical conditions are celebrating Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved marijuana dispensaries.

Federal raids on medical marijuana distributors continued at least into the second week of Barack Obama’s presidency, when federal agents shut down at least two dispensaries in California on Feb. 3.

Holder was asked about those raids Wednesday in Santa Ana, Calif., at a news conference that was called to announce the arrests of 755 people in a nationwide crackdown on the U.S. operations of Mexican drug cartels. He said such operations would no longer be conducted.

“What the president said during the campaign ... will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement,” he said. “What (Obama) said during the campaign ... is now American policy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dea; dopeheads; drugs; holder; libertarians; obama; trollsonparade
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Well, we have to make sure Barry can still get his smoke on.

Drugging the population makes stripping their liberty's all the easier.

1 posted on 02/27/2009 6:18:36 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

Munchies!!!!! 8P


2 posted on 02/27/2009 6:19:32 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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Makes sense.


3 posted on 02/27/2009 6:23:32 PM PST by Darwin Fish (God invented evolution. Man invented religeon.)
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I am glad they are doing this. They busted a guy named Charlie Lynch who was operating one of these with the full knowledge and approval of the town he lived in, except the Sheriff, who talked the DEA into shutting it down.

But the bad part was when they tried him in Federal court, he was not able to put up any kind of defense. The jurors did not even know he had an approved clinic, and the prosecutors said he walked around with a backpack selling his weed on the streets. They lied their asses off.

He was convicted in a trial that reminds me of the one they had in the Soviet Union when our U2 pilot was shot down. It was totally a showtrial with not even a remote connection to justice.

That is when I realized there was a reason our Founding Fathers did not want the federalization of crime, mainly because there is absolutely no accountability at the Federal level for the actions of the Justice Department.
4 posted on 02/27/2009 6:26:27 PM PST by microgood
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To: Big_Monkey

A large libertarian voter bloc has just been absorbed.


5 posted on 02/27/2009 6:26:56 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Darwin Fish
"Makes sense.

Here's my only problem with legalized drugs - Government Welfare.

If you want to smoke ganga, snort cocaine, shoot heroine or do whatever it is you do with meth, more power to you, with one little caveat: If you receive public assistance OF ANY KIND, then you have to pass a drug test.

Other than that, numb yourselves to death - literally.

6 posted on 02/27/2009 6:29:06 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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Actually, I would like to see the DEA stop their *war on pain meds* where doctors are afraid to prescribe those meds for conditions that need pain treatment — because the DEA will sue the doctors.

Now, these are medical doctors, doing their practice with their patients and not dealing illegal drugs, but treating the condition of the patient. It’s been a problem for a while, with many doctors. I’ve dealt with it with my dad on some of pain meds with his doctor, too, before he died.

The doctors can’t treat because of insurance companies and because of the government and because of the DEA (at various times and for various things).


7 posted on 02/27/2009 6:36:07 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Big_Monkey

I would add alcohol to the list as well.


8 posted on 02/27/2009 6:40:08 PM PST by Michael Barnes
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"Actually, I would like to see the DEA stop their *war on pain meds* where doctors are afraid to prescribe those meds for conditions that need pain treatment — because the DEA will sue the doctors."

That's certainly an example of a relative minuscule number of people abusing the system and causing tremendous aggravation to the innocent and sick.

It should be addressed.

9 posted on 02/27/2009 6:42:58 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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Before they halt the raids they might try the White House and some of the Congressional offices.


10 posted on 02/27/2009 6:43:22 PM PST by IbJensen (In 2008, Americans foolishly used their freedom to vote for “chains” not “change.”)
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Post #6

I am not a pot smoker...however, I know a cancer patient that smoking pot really helps.

I am tossed up with this but am thinking, make it legal and take some tax money from the people that want to smoke it (not the cancer patients) -— it is such a cash crop in the states, people will always smoke it... use this as a offset revenue ...

Hell, not sure...


11 posted on 02/27/2009 6:47:55 PM PST by Shyla
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Drugging the population makes stripping their liberty's all the easier.

So let's see...you would therefore protect liberty by waging an unconstitutional all-out Drug War? How Orwellian van you get?

12 posted on 02/27/2009 7:00:32 PM PST by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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"So let's see...you would therefore protect liberty by waging an unconstitutional all-out Drug War? How Orwellian van you get?

No, but that doesn't change the fact that throughout recorded history, the ruling class has always employed drugs and alcoholic as a way of soothing the great unwashed.

I was in Somalia in '92. The first thing the warlords worried about was making sure the kot (a weed that grows naturally that has a narcotic-like effect) was delivered, in a timely manner, to the population to make them easier to manage.

How Orwellian do I want to be? I don't put anything past the guys that are in charge today.

13 posted on 02/27/2009 7:07:06 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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If you want to smoke ganga, snort cocaine, shoot heroine or do whatever it is you do with meth, more power to you, with one little caveat: If you receive public assistance OF ANY KIND, then you have to pass a drug test.

Could you please tell me what part of the Constitution says that the fedgov has the power to provide public assistance in the 1st place?

I'm glad that you said "more power to you", but if you would read the 10th Amendment again, you would realize that intra-state drug policies & the Welfare State are to be handled by the States respectively in any which way they & the people choose.

14 posted on 02/27/2009 7:07:34 PM PST by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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"Could you please tell me what part of the Constitution says that the fedgov has the power to provide public assistance in the 1st place?"

It's not. Just promote the welfare, not provide it. But, that war's been lost long ago. Whether you or I or 57 million people don't want welfare of any kind, isn't quite enough to stop it.

So, if the government is going to liberate me from my hard-earned money, I don't think it's too much to ask that the people they feel need it more than I do, aren't spending 20 of 24 hours a day, stoned, baked, tripped or drunk.

15 posted on 02/27/2009 7:13:33 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Star Traveler

Cops need criminals. If the war on drugs is over, all those overpaid federal parasites are out of jobs and have to find honestjobs... If they can.

I damn sure wouldn’t hire one.


16 posted on 02/27/2009 7:14:02 PM PST by Ronin
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While I’m thrilled to see Mr. Holder say that he might actually respect the rights of the States on this one issue, I surely wish he would be a lil more consistent, ya know?

What about abortion? Education? Helping the poor & disabled (which includes me)? Health care? & on & on & on.......


17 posted on 02/27/2009 7:19:14 PM PST by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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"While I’m thrilled to see Mr. Holder say that he might actually respect the rights of the States on this one issue, I surely wish he would be a lil more consistent, ya know?"

The Constitution to Mr. Holder and his ilk is seen only as an impediment to the massive social reorganization that they covet.

This is a rare exception to their M.O. But, that's all it is; a rare exception.

18 posted on 02/27/2009 7:26:38 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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I wonder if Joe Biden is pissed about this....after all, I’ve heard hat he was one of the main architects of the Drug War when it started back in ‘73 or so.


19 posted on 02/27/2009 7:29:09 PM PST by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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"I wonder if Joe Biden is pissed about this....

I don't think Biden's brain allows him to remember what he had for lunch today, let alone what he did in 1973. So long as Joe's got his home at the Naval Observatory and a front row seat to the State of the Union, he's peachy.

20 posted on 02/27/2009 7:34:50 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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