Posted on 10/26/2011 5:48:16 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced October 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent chills throughout the industry. It was a stunning reversal by the Obama administration.
Only two years ago, Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden wrote his infamous "Ogden Memo," announcing that the feds wouldn't bother businesses in compliance with their own state laws.
It proved a dose of Miracle-Gro to California, where pot-selling stores have multiplied since voters approved the state's 1996 medical marijuana law. By late last year, California reportedly had more dispensaries than Starbucks outlets.
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...On October 5, the IRS ruled that one of the largest California dispensaries, Harborside Health Center, owed $2.5 million in taxes because federal law precluded standard deductions for businesses engaging in illegal activity.
In other words, Obama was not only blowing off state laws. He was declaring that legal businesses were now nothing more than criminal rackets. And he was carving away every tool they needed to function.
Why the reversal by Obama on medical marijuana? He indulged in it heavily when younger so why the crackdown now?
Because he’s a complete tool and giant flaming hypocrite, perhaps?
That’s my take on it.
Anyway, that's my theory.
Why do you think it is Obama who makes any of these decisions?
No surprise there. The left has advocated drug use for years in order to foment revolution and alter and change the moral fiber of America. Now that the goal of communism is almost here he needs to clamp down so he can better control the populace.
Aren’t these dispensaries supplied by domestic farms? I thought that was the case in California. If they were getting weed off the Mexican narco market, I could see landing on this with both feet. But as it is, even if all of this weed ended up going to recreational users with lame excuses, it represents a lot of weed that would not be bought from Mexico.
In the meantime, it looks like American tolerance for the idea of legal marijuana has gotten to the 50% point according to one poll. I would not “recommend” marijuana (unless for a specific medical use that could be documented) any more than I would “recommend” tobacco or “recommend” getting habitually drunk on alcohol, but certain things may not be worth banning given that the unintended consequences of doing so are worse than the consequences of the habit.
Cynical, but probably right.
He probably noticed that politicians “hard on drugs” get re-elected, and politicians who want to change the drug laws don’t, pretty much ever.
Drug warriors get votes, that’s why we have the laws we do.
The doper fools think it’s o.k. if the feds go after those who smoke tobacco, as long as one of their number is Prez.
The truth is a government that is able to take prohibit one thing that’s considered to be a vice is able to prohibit any other thing that’s considered to be a vice.
Eventually that government will prohibit all things that have been determined to be bad and require all things that have been determined to be good.
This is a total waste of money by the FEDS.
I am not a drug user, but the WOD is a complete disaster.
That's a lot of sick people.
Yep, these people can buy starter plants for cheap, all grown in the CA/U.S.
My neighbor has cancer and got two starter plants a year ago, so she has no need to buy it from anyone.
He swore an oath to the Constitution, which permits the federal government no role in intrastrate commerce. If Californians are growing for their own consumption, then California law — not federal law — determines its legality.
Notice Eric Holder’s role in this story.
That's a lot of sick people.
Pain is a widespread affliction, and marijuana has medically established pain-relief properties. QED.
The same drug lords that received all the guns are the same ones who will see their sales perk up considerably when the competition from "legal" marijuana is shut down. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though.
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