The Audacity of Dope: Obama Breaks Medical Marijuana Promise
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major pain wrote: »Not exactly. I think small personal amounts shouldnt land someone in jail. The real pushers though usually are not only selling just weed. If you running around with bricks of the ? most likely you are doing something worst than that.
Legalizing weed would create revenue for our broke ass govt.
Have you been to the Herald Square train stations in NYC recently?
The homeless population there is looking like a refugee camp, it's that serious. Yet we're too broke to do anything about it......we're too broke to keep many of our teachers too. And cops. And social workers.
Legalizing weed is the way to go, we're too broke now to look the other way. -
bornnraisedoffCMR wrote: »Your going to get taxed regardless. If you pay for it from a drug dealer the price is inflated to abnormal proportions due to the risk he has to go thru to supply you. If its legal, yeah the govt will always figure out a way to tax something especially a "sin tax" but ? it. It is what it is. Atleast you would be able to grow your own and not have to worry about SWAT coming in and tearing up your home and throwing you in prison like they did this old cat that live down here a few weeks ago.
Yeah definitely not tryna have the SWAT breaking dow walls for me hitting the ? twice... some ol ? right there. Something about the govt suppling weed is just sinister and unamerican lol -
kingblaze84 wrote: »Legalizing weed would create revenue for our broke ass govt.
Have you been to the Herald Square train stations in NYC recently?
The homeless population there is looking like a refugee camp, it's that serious. Yet we're too broke to do anything about it......we're too broke to keep many of our teachers too. And cops. And social workers.
Legalizing weed is the way to go, we're too broke now to look the other way.
lol One of the many things I find laughable about the states. Billions of dollars for wars but cant feed the poor, cant pay the teachers that teach the children, crumbling economy smh.. This is a war and battle their going to lose. -
kingblaze84 wrote: »It gets worse baby!!!!!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/eric-holder-to-prosecute-_n_764153.html
Eric Holder To Prosecute Distribution, Possession EVEN IF Prop. 19 Passes........
SAN FRANCISCO — Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if voters next month make the state the first in the nation to legalize the drug.
The Justice Department strongly opposes California's Proposition 19 and remains firmly committed to enforcing the federal Controlled Substances Act in all states, Holder wrote in a letter to former chiefs of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, dated Wednesday.
"We will vigorously enforce the CSA against those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use, even if such activities are permitted under state law," Holder wrote.
The attorney general also said that legalizing recreational marijuana in California would be a "significant impediment" to the government's joint efforts with state and local law enforcement to target drug traffickers, who often distribute marijuana alongside ? and other drugs.
He said the ballot measure's passage would "significantly undermine" efforts to keep California communities safe.
The ex-DEA chiefs sent a letter to Holder in August calling on the Obama administration to sue California if Proposition 19 passes. They said legalizing ? presented the same threat to federal authority as Arizona's recent immigration law that spurred a federal lawsuit.
If California voters approve the ballot measure, the state would become the first to legalize and regulate recreational ? use. Adults could possess up to one ounce of the drug and grow small gardens on private property. Local governments would decide whether to allow and tax sales of the drug.
The state has clashed with federal authorities over marijuana since 1996, when voters approved a first-of-its-kind ballot measure that allowed people to grow and use ? for medical purposes. Thirteen other states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana.
Under federal law, marijuana is still strictly illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government has the right to enforce its ban regardless of state law.
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During the Bush administration, retail ? dispensaries across the state faced regular raids from federal anti-drug agents. Their owners were sometimes sentenced to decades in prison for drug trafficking.
Yet the medical marijuana industry still grew, and has expanded even more since Holder said last year that federal law enforcement would defer to state laws on using it for medicinal purposes.
Some legal scholars and policy analysts have questioned how much the Justice Department could really do on the ground to halt a state-sanctioned recreational ? trade.
Nearly all arrests for marijuana crimes are made at the state level. Of more than 847,000 marijuana-related arrests in 2008, for example, just over 6,300 suspects were booked by federal law enforcement, or fewer than 1 percent.
Los Angeles County's top law enforcers said Friday the federal government would still have help from them regardless of the vote's outcome on Proposition 19.
County Sheriff Lee Baca and District Attorney Steve Cooley said at a news conference that the law would be unenforceable because it is trumped by federal laws that prohibit marijuana cultivation and possession.
"We will continue as we are today regardless of whether it passes or doesn't pass," Baca said. His deputies don't and won't go after users in their homes, but public use of the drug will be targeted, he said.
A spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown declined to comment on how the Democratic gubernatorial candidate would respond as governor to a federal crackdown if Proposition 19 passes.
"We have to win and it has to pass before we get to answering that question," spokesman Sterling Clifford said. Brown is opposed to Proposition 19.
Meg Whitman's campaign did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. During a recent debate, the Republican candidate for governor reiterated her strong stance against legalizing ? .
"I think this is not the right thing for our young people. It's not the right thing for our community of citizens of California, but don't ask me. Ask law enforcement."
----Hope and change my ass!
Welcome to Obama's America, George W. Bush Part Deux.
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northside7 wrote: »lol One of the many things I find laughable about the states. Billions of dollars for wars but cant feed the poor, cant pay the teachers that teach the children, crumbling economy smh.. This is a war and battle their going to lose.
Yeah it's a very sad thing when I realize how badly the USA treats its poor compared to other industrialized nations around the world. I can't understand how we have billions a month for Afghanistan but not enough to take care of the homeless population here. Teachers are being laid off in the thousands along with other govt workers, but we have enough to still spend billions in Iraq and Pakistan too. Wow, what a crazy country I live in. -
Even if the marijuana bill is legalized in Cali I seen a article on yahoo about how the feds wont give a ? and will enforce federal drug rules even if the state makes it legal
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Captain Spacey wrote: »Even if the marijuana bill is legalized in Cali I seen a article on yahoo about how the feds wont give a ? and will enforce federal drug rules even if the state makes it legal
That hope and change thing feels mighty, mighty good right now. -
Captain Spacey wrote: »Even if the marijuana bill is legalized in Cali I seen a article on yahoo about how the feds wont give a ? and will enforce federal drug rules even if the state makes it legal
Makes you think whats the point of prop 19? Nothing can be done till its legal on a federal level. -
? damn puppet
