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Despite assurances from Eric Holder, and a ray of light from Patrick Kennedy, pot proponents in California are
feeling betrayed by last week's DEA raid of a San Francisco cannabis club:
As Ron Paul pointed out recently, the millions of people who enjoy a recreational toke are getting fed up with lawmakers who look down their martinis at them, and the 21st century seems wholly incompatible with a heartless ban on medical marijuana. The anti-pot squares of this nation might want to stake out a fallback position, or they could face a Doritos-fueled revolt.
feeling betrayed by last week's DEA raid of a San Francisco cannabis club:Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided a San Francisco cannabis club last week without the cooperation of local authorities, making no arrests but hauling out computers and club products. During the campaign, Obama pledged to end federal raids and Attorney General Eric Holder declared that promise to be law, but with the caveat that if clubs violated state law, the feds might intervene. Advocates note that the club in question, Emmalyn's California Cannabis Clinic, had a provisional permit from the city.The President angered many a marijuana fan last week by dismissing the idea of legalizing it as a way to stimulate the economy, and now, it appears the tiny amount of progress Holder signaled is going up in smoke.
"We're concerned that the policy change that has been stated by the Obama administration has not actually gone into effect, because it appears that raids are continuing," says Hermes. "If there were state law violations - and that's certainly questionable - they should be the purview of local and state officials and not the federal government."
As Ron Paul pointed out recently, the millions of people who enjoy a recreational toke are getting fed up with lawmakers who look down their martinis at them, and the 21st century seems wholly incompatible with a heartless ban on medical marijuana. The anti-pot squares of this nation might want to stake out a fallback position, or they could face a Doritos-fueled revolt.
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joedenver60
10:49AM Mar 31st 2009
These folks who have it in for people who smoke pot, need to look at the real problem of drug addiction from pharmacutical companies, who sell a product whose side effects are worse then the problem they are treated for
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Debra S.
10:53AM Mar 31st 2009
Holder needs to stop acting like a sociologist, by commenting on broad social issues, and start doing his job by coordinating justice policy with the DEA. If the kids cannot play well together, Obama (Dad) needs to intervene and ensure that the Administration's (federal) policies are implemented correctly and that states and locals are left to handle their own laws. Not mentioned ... DEA's statement on this subject and their determination to continue the raids, in spite of current Administration policy, not long after Obama's Inauguration. Agency seems like a loose cannon, and unless Obama wants to be seen as speaking out of both sides of his mouth for political reasons, he needs to get a grip.
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(0) IndictBushandhisthugsnow!
11:13AM Mar 31st 2009
I use Medicinal Marijuana to help ease my pain from Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and it's related diseases; Peripheral Neuropathy, Ataxia and Nystagmus are just a part of it. This degenerative brain disease of the brain stem and cerrabellum is killer and has put me in a wheelchair. I also use 90 mgs of Morphine Sulfate daily. The "pot" surely helps the pain as much as the morphine. But I'm in Sacramento, not The City. The DEA has raided the dispenceries here in the past. I just wish they'd go away and leave us critically ill people alone.
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(0) John1
11:44AM Mar 31st 2009
Eric Holder is against the 2nd Amendment which is a Constitutional right to own firearms, but is in favor of marijuana. Holder must be smoking the good stuff.
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(0) Wish Belkin
11:44AM Mar 31st 2009
The DEA is convinced that aging hippies and dying cancer patients pose a risk to society.
If they were worth a damn, they'd arrest a few crack dealers and get some guns off the street at the same time.
If they were worth a damn, they'd arrest a few crack dealers and get some guns off the street at the same time.
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(0) FreedomFighterNH
11:45AM Mar 31st 2009
The real issue here isn't about smoking pot or doing drugs, it's about freedom of choice. if we are only free to make good decisions are we truly free? obviously not, and we never will be as long as this government exists and operates outside it's constitutional guidelines...
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(0) Angiebaby
12:04PM Mar 31st 2009
Guess that makes it a real buzzkill, huh? Ahh haa ha!
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(0) Mike
12:09PM Mar 31st 2009
The states need to fight the DEA, when they raid a place that the state has legalized, then they need to arrest the DEA agents and haul them to jail, for breaking the law. States need to fight back against the federal government or we will all be doomed
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