Posted on 07/25/2006 10:01:22 PM PDT by VOA
1. the Feds have been known to bust people who grow it in any sort of large scale measure that would drive down prices.Your bizarre subsequent attempt at a proof:
2. my Department is aware of other recent DEA-initiated raids involving as few as six marijuana plants in which no charges were ever filedCan you say non sequitur?
They hate law and facts.
Thank you /
So what, that happened to be in the article. Not to mention the many raids done on large scale growers. I'm amazed you're trying to argue the fact that the DEA doesn't raid large scale medical growers in California, when they freely admit they do.
Speaking of non-sequiters, how about posting 1996 stats over the effects of a law passed in California in, 1996.
http://www.ndsn.org/mayjun97/potraid.html
Federal narcotics agents raided Flower Therapy, a San Francisco medical marijuana outlet, on April 21, seizing 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment (Bill Wallace, "Federal Raid On S.F. Grower Of Medical Pot," San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 1997, p. A1; Maria L. La Ganga, "DEA Agents Raid Marijuana Club," Los Angeles Times (Washington Edition), April 22, 1997, p. B3).
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=670
The DEA arrested Prop 215 patients Gary and Anna Barrett yesterday on a federal grand jury indictment for marijuana cultivation. The Barretts had been involved in a series of marijuana cultivation cases in state court, the most recent of which was dismissed by a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge on May 9th. The court had ruled that the Barretts were "legitimate medical marijuana users under the Compassionate Use Act and entitled to grow the marijuana they were growing." The Barretts' attorney, Daniel Halpern of San Jose, accused county law enforcement officials of conspiring to hand over the Barretts' case to the feds in order to get a conviction. The grand jury charged the Barretts with three different marijuana grows, one in San Luis Obispo County with an alleged 550 plants in 2001, and two subsequent gardens in San Bernardino County (134 plants and 34 plants) in 2002-3.
http://www.420.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=979&aid=10
Investigators raided a sprawling pot farm Wednesday in northwest Lake County, seizing 20,000 marijuana plants grown in open view of passing motorists on Highway 20. The farm, owned by a well-known medical marijuana activist with a penchant for pushing the boundaries of California's drug laws, would have yielded a crop worth more than $80 million when it matured this fall, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Richard Meyer said.
This makes me think that the government would mostly lose out on making drugs legal. They've acquired police-state powers and been able to finance small armies to fight the WOT through acquistioning enough taxes from citizens to do so. That's a lot of money. If those forces were suddenly made obsolete by legalization? Doubt we'll see anyone want to give up that power. Gonna be tough to justify said expenditures for jaywalking. Then you have all of the bribery and massive profit of the current black market. I think the legalizers have a bigger battle ahead of them than they realize.
Why won't you answer the question?
How does someone using medical marijuana harm you?
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