Posted on 04/02/2012 9:24:07 AM PDT by GSWarrior
Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland's Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state's first cannabis industry training school.
Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division are searching the university at the corner of 16th Street and Broadway, in the heart of the city's widely recognized downtown cannabis-oriented district, authorities said.
The federal agencies are conducting a joint investigation, she said.
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Is your position that as long as pot is illegal then the federal government’s war on marijuana is justified and desirable?
My position is that pot should stay illegal.
I am here to respect yours and others positions.
LOL. This war on pot is nothing but another tyrannical scam by the govt.
I have never smoked pot never done illegal drugs - but the war on drugs is a failure and a scam, just like 99% of the govt.
The laws against pot are working about as well as the laws against alcohol did - both in their failure to curb the proscribed behaviors and their channeling hyperinflated profits into criminal hands.
'It's for the children' - the big-government mantra. Shouldn't California decide for itself how big is "too big" and how close is "too close to parks or schools"?
You can say the same thing about any criminal activity. Legalizing crime does not make it go away. Should we legalize (murder, rape, incest) everything on the idea that it won't go away anyway?
You can say the same thing about any criminal activity.
No you can't. According to the FBI, two out of three murder cases are cleared; in contrast, the number for drug sales is assuredly no more than two out of three-hundred.
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